Super Metrics are often regarded in the same way as Dynamic Types are in vRO (i.e. too difficult to use). However if you are familiar with vROPs metrics and you can use excel then creating a Super Metric should be easy! The first question is why to use them? Lets take an example scenario. The … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Super Metrics
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vRealize Operations – Security Compliance
For this blog post I am using a Pre-GA version of vROPs 7.0 with the vSphere Security Configuration Guide standards however the key concepts are the same for 6.x and 7.x. Security Compliance has been around in vROPs for some time however it is often overlooked. Sometimes I think customers would rather live with their … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Security Compliance
vRealize Operations 7.0 – Quick Overview
This is a quick post giving you an overview of vROPs 7.0. It's not intended to be in an in-depth post so if you need that then wait until 7.0 goes to GA and then check back here. All screenshots in this article have been taken from a Pre GA version and any changes I … Continue reading vRealize Operations 7.0 – Quick Overview
vRealize Operations Upgrade to 6.7
This post will guide you through the process of upgrading to the latest (at the time of writing) version of vRealize Operations (vROPs). In our example upgrade scenario we will be starting with version 6.6.0 which has been configured for vCenter connectivity to a vSphere 6.5 platform. The installation consists of 2 x small nodes … Continue reading vRealize Operations Upgrade to 6.7
Log Insight Alerting (with vROPs)
One of the nice things you can do with vRLI and vROPs is to pass information and events between the two, using data in one to trigger an action in the other. For example, lets assume that we have detected an undesirable situation with one of our ESXi hosts that shows up as specific log … Continue reading Log Insight Alerting (with vROPs)
Integrating Log Insight with vROPs
Before we get started with this post it's important to highlight the product versions being used here. Namely, version 6.7 of vRealize Operations and version 4.6.1 of vRealize Log Insight. VMworld 2018 is currently underway and new product versions will shortly released towards the end of 2018. This may or may not change the procedures … Continue reading Integrating Log Insight with vROPs
vRealize Operations 6.7 – Custom Dashboards
Dashboards provide a way to consume metrics and properties within vROPs and show them to the user in an easy to consume way. The dashboard may be for one object or for many and it may require user interaction to drive it or not. vROPs comes with a variety of OOTB dashboards designed to give … Continue reading vRealize Operations 6.7 – Custom Dashboards
vRealize Operations – Policies
Policies in vROPs enables analysis, automation, metric and alert settings to be applied to a set of objects. These objects reside within custom groups (for more info on creating custom groups see https://vnuggets.com/2018/08/23/vrealize-operations-6-7-custom-groups). vROPs comes with a set of OOTB policies which can be edited, copied or used to create other policies from. Policy Inheritance … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Policies
vRealize Operations – Symptoms & Alerts
One of the core functions within a monitoring and optimisation solution is to detect when something is not normal and to then do something about it. In this example we have requirement for a specific host cluster to alert based on lower thresholds for CPU Workload %. Symptom Definitions A Symptom Definition allows the administrator … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Symptoms & Alerts
vRealize Operations – Custom Groups
In this article I will show you how to create a custom group in order to use multiple policies within a vROPs environment. Remember, if we want a policy other than the default policy to be applied to one or more objects then we must group those objects together and apply the policy to the … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Custom Groups
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