VMware Aria Operations Management Pack Builder stops working after appliance reboot
Today I run into a strange issue where a simple reboot of the MP Builder led to an unreachable MP Builder (UI login page didn’t load). From a network perspective everything looked fine, the machine was reachable and resolvable. The console was responsive as well. Next step was to check whether the docker image running…
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…
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…