vROPS (8.6) disable single alert from a policy
For a customer running VCF on HPE DL380 servers, we are running vROPS to monitor the infra layer. We have been using the webhook function to send higher prio events to a specific MS Teams channel so that the responsible people from the operations teams can action these notifications with priority. Since we have installed…
vMotion (or any other VMkernel) Network-changer
Over the years I have been involved in a lot of workload migrations. Most of them where VM based migrations. A long time ago I have done some storage level migrations and used VMware converter quite often to onboard workloads into a virtualized environment. Nowadays however and with the newer vSphere versions, the majority of…
Lessons learned while using the Cross-VC Migration Fling
While I was working with a customer to migrate some workloads from an old vCenter Server to a new one, I ran across some minor bumps before I could successfully do a migration. So why a migration in the first place? Well, the world basically becomes a bit brighter if you know that the source…
vROPS & vSAN – Per SP capacity usage reporting dashboard – Part 2
Part 1 of this blog post described the use case identification and preparation steps required in vCenter in order to proceed and create some content in vRealize Operations. This post will describe the steps required in vROPS: Create Group Type Create Custom Group and set dynamic membership Create Supermetrics per vSAN policy and include them…
vROPS & vSAN – Per SP capacity usage reporting dashboard – Part 1
Recently I was asked by a customer to provide more insight on vSAN storage policy reporting questions. To be more specific, my customer wanted to know how much space was consumed by each storage profile on their (stretched) vSAN cluster. The cluster was getting rather full and they wanted to see if and how they…
Change vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8 Datacenter location
Recently version 8.0 of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager was released (release notes and what’s new blog). Different from previous versions, this version now comes with an installer you can launch directly from your desktop and which can be combined with the installation of Identity Manager (either install or integrate with existing) and the deployment of…
Hello Community!
This site has been online without any content on it for way to long now! I have decided to start putting on some blog posts here from time to time. Blog posts you can expect soon are related to: vRealize Operations vRealize Log Insight vRealize Automation 8 Aything else that pops up 🙂 I do…