This is a quick article that came from a customer requirement to demonstrate Super Metric creation. The scenario the customer came up with was to show how many vCPUs were left within a given compute resource based on a defined allocation ratio (we'll use 4 here). Yes this was a method of showing that allocation … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Allocation Super Metric
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vRealize Operations – vSAN Super Metrics Customer Scenario
This week I had an interesting use case for "Super Metrics" for a customer who needed alerting for vSAN for a specific scenario. The customer was running vSAN stretched clusters with vSAN fault domains and needed to know when a certain percentage of hosts within a fault domain had failed so that they could potentially … Continue reading vRealize Operations – vSAN Super Metrics Customer Scenario
vRealize Operations – Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator
This article will walk you through getting the latest version of the "Management Pack for vROPs" installed and working, and get you on your journey to expanding out the functionality within vRealize Operations. What Is It? The management pack is a software update for vROPs that does several things including: Allowing visibility into vRO so … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator
vRealize Operations – Views
Views provide you the ability to define a set of metrics or properties that you might commonly and repeatedly use together for a specific object type. The information displayed in a view can either be a: List – data about an object (or objects) displayed in a table with one object per line Summary – … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Views
vRealize Operations – Super Metrics
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
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