Brock Peterson
vROps Management Pack Builder
For years customers have been asking for a vROps Management Pack Builder, it's finally here! The Beta announcement was made in March and...
Brock Peterson | Cloud Solution Architect
Cloud Management Business Unit | VMware
I blog about the VMware CMBU portfolio of products: vROps, vRTVS, vRLI, vRA, vRA SaltStack Config, vRSLCM, and CloudHealth.
Brock Peterson
- May 7
- 5 min
vROps Cluster Architecture: Stand-Alone, HA, and CA
We last discussed vROps Clustering almost two years ago, it's time for an update! Let's first define the Nodes that comprise vROps...
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Brock Peterson
- May 1
- 3 min
Excluding Windows Drives and Linux Filesystems from Monitoring with vROps
Out of the box vROps comes with hundreds of Alerts for VMs, one of them is focused on disk space, namely Windows Drives and Linux...
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Brock Peterson
- Mar 17
- 2 min
Discover Guest OS Crashes with vRLI and send Alerts to vROps!
We've deployed vRLI, configured our vCenters and ESXi Hosts to send logs to it and now we want to use it to find VMs that have crashed. ...
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Brock Peterson
- Mar 14
- 2 min
vROps: How many more VMs will fit in a Cluster?
A data analytics engine, a notification mechanism, a costing platform, a performance analyzer, a capacity planner: vROps is all of those...
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Brock Peterson
- Feb 21
- 2 min
OS Monitoring with vROps and Telegraf
vSphere monitoring, Application monitoring, Hardware monitoring, Operating System (OS) monitoring, vROps can do it all! This blog will...
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Brock Peterson
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Active Directory as a vROps Authentication Source
While I often enjoy the privilege of working in vROps as the local admin, this generally isn't the case for most users. In fact, most...
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Brock Peterson
- Feb 9
- 2 min
Monitoring Microsoft Active Directory with vROps
You're using VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), you'd like to expand it to monitor your Microsoft Active Directory (AD) environment,...
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Brock Peterson
- Feb 8
- 3 min
Monitoring VMware Horizon
For years customers have used vRealize Operations for Horizon (V4H) and the Horizon Adapter to monitor their Horizon environments. ...
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Brock Peterson
- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
vROps Content Management and the Suite-API
Through the years, vROps has gotten quite good with its ability to manage content, things like exporting and importing dashboards,...
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Brock Peterson
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
vROps Management Packs for Compute and Storage!
Last month at VMworld 2021 VMware announced that vROps customers would be entitled to the vRTVS compute and storage management packs with...
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Brock Peterson
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
vROps 8.6 and the New Email Payload Template
With every new release vROps brings new features and added functionality! vROps 8.0 featured the Troubleshooting Workbench, vROps 8.2...
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Brock Peterson
- Oct 16, 2021
- 3 min
vRealize 8.6 Updates via vRSLCM
Beyond vROps, vRLI, and vRA, the vRealize Suite comes packaged with the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM). It's the vRealize...
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Brock Peterson
- Oct 13, 2021
- 5 min
vRealize Cloud Management Updates
Yesterday was a big day! We released new versions of every product in our vRealize Suite: vROps, vRLI, vRA, vRNI, and vRSLCM. Here are...
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Brock Peterson
- Sep 19, 2021
- 2 min
Application Monitoring with VMware vRealize Operations
We often talk about application monitoring with VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), there are 25 different applications that we can...
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Brock Peterson
- Sep 11, 2021
- 3 min
VMware vRealize Operations Automation Central
For me, every release of vRealize Operations (vROps) has a highlight, in 8.4 that was Automation Central! It provides a lightweight...
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Brock Peterson
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
Disk Monitoring with VMware vROps
Out of the box, vRealize Operations (vROps) will monitor and alert on Virtual Machine Disk Space. The Alert itself is called "One or...
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Brock Peterson
- Aug 11, 2021
- 5 min
Updated vRTVS Management Pack for ServiceNow
VMware introduced the ServiceNow Notification Plugin in vROps 7.5, giving customers the ability to send vROps Alerts to ServiceNow. We...
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Brock Peterson
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
vROps Cloud APIs
APIs are a powerful way to interact programmatically with products, such as vROps Cloud, which has a rich set of APIs and detailed...
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Brock Peterson
- Aug 2, 2021
- 2 min
vROps and CloudHealth
Acquired in October 2018, CloudHealth is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering from VMware, capturing public cloud costs, compliance,...
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