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Extract Fields with vRealize Log Insight
VMware vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) is a powerful logging tool with all sorts of capabilities, one of them being the ability to extract...
Apr 24, 2022


Send Oracle Database Logs to vRLI
vRLI is up and running, you're getting vCenter Alarms, Events, and Tasks, ESXi Host Logs, but you want more! Specifically, you want your...
Apr 23, 2022


Capture Certificate Expirations with vRLI
vRLI is up and running, you're collecting vCenter events, tasks and alarms, as well as ESXi Host logs. In addition, vRLI is receiving...
Apr 17, 2022


Build and Rename VMs with VMware vRA!
If you've built VMs using vRA, you've likely noticed the naming convention, not ideal, let's change that. Out of the box, your...
Mar 26, 2022


vRLI and the Cisco UCS Content Pack
I'd like to start bringing Cisco UCS logs into my vRLI environment, here's how I did it. Go to Content Packs - Marketplace and look for...
Mar 19, 2022


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. ...
Mar 17, 2022


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...
Mar 14, 2022


OS Monitoring with vROps and Telegraf
vSphere monitoring, Application monitoring, Hardware monitoring, Operating System (OS) monitoring, vROps can do it all! This blog will...
Feb 21, 2022


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...
Feb 19, 2022


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,...
Feb 9, 2022


Monitoring VMware Horizon
For years customers have used vRealize Operations for Horizon (V4H) and the Horizon Adapter to monitor their Horizon environments. ...
Feb 8, 2022


vRA Workload Placement and vCenter Folders
You've deployed VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), you're building VMs, and you want to put them in certain vCenter Folders, how do you do...
Jan 28, 2022


vRLI Cloud, the Cloud Proxy, and the Log Forwarder
If you're using any of the vRealize Suite Cloud offerings, you are running Cloud Proxies (CP) in your Private Cloud. These sit in your...
Jan 17, 2022


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,...
Dec 28, 2021


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...
Nov 12, 2021


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...
Nov 2, 2021


Capturing Logs with the vRLI Linux Agent
You've designed and deployed your vRLI Cluster, you've configured it to collect logs from your vCenters and ESXi Hosts, but you want more....
Oct 27, 2021


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...
Oct 16, 2021


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...
Oct 13, 2021


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...
Sep 19, 2021


VMworld 2021
What sessions will you be attending this year at VMworld 2021?! Here's my list, register here! Solution Keynote: The VMware Multi Cloud...
Sep 15, 2021


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...
Sep 11, 2021


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...
Aug 28, 2021


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...
Aug 11, 2021
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