So many uses cases for the vROps API, we've discussed using it to delete Adapter Instances and Manage Content, but today we'll focus on...

In June 2021 I published a blog on vROps Service Discovery , I'd like to provide an update. 8.10 is the current version of vROps, and...

Custom Groups are a powerful construct in vROps, most often used to group objects together for use within Dashboards, Reports, or Views. ...

VMware just dropped vROps 8.10 HF1, details here. Let's apply it to our vROps 8.10 deployment via vRSLCM. You can also do this via the...

For whatever reason, you're having issues deleting a vROps Adapter Instance from the UI, here's how you do it from the vROps Suite-API....

You want a view showing VMs, the ESXi Hosts they are on, the Clusters they are in, and properties and metrics for each. Yep, we can do it, and it'll end up looking something like this! When I first tried doing this, I created a View using multiple objects, thinking the relationships would be made, but they aren't. While all Objects are included, they aren't all on the same line, no relationships are being made. Parent ESXi Host and Parent Cluster are available properties on

The July 2022 drop of vROps Cloud brought all sorts of goodness: Synthetic Monitoring, Automation Central Updates, Rule-Based...

What is VMware Skyline? As indicated in this FAQ, VMware Skyline is a proactive self-service support technology available to customers...

vROps has been deployed, vRLI is up and running, let's integrate them! In vROps, to integrate with vRLI, you activate the vRLI...

In our last blog we sent vRLI Alerts to Microsoft Teams via Webhooks, in this blog we'll send vROps Alerts to Microsoft Teams the same...

Today we can send vRLI Alerts to vROps, we can generate emails on them, and there are out of the box Webhooks for Slack, Pager Duty, and...

VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud (vRLI Cloud) was introduced back in 2020. Since then VMware has released new versions on a roughly...

VMware vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) 8.1 introduced Index Partitions with customizable retention periods, giving us the ability to put logs...

For years customers have been asking for a vROps Management Pack Builder, it's finally here! The Beta announcement was made in March and...

We last discussed vROps Clustering almost two years ago, it's time for an update! Let's first define the Nodes that comprise vROps Clusters. They are formally documented here , but it'll be helpful to quickly list them. Primary Node - the initial and only required Node in vROps. All other Nodes are managed by the Primary Node. In a Single-Node installation, the Primary Node does everything. Data Node - these have adapters installed on them, collect data, and perform anal

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...

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

vRLI is up and running, you're getting vCenter Alarms, Events, and Tasks, ESXi Host Logs, but you want more! Specifically, you want your Oracle Database logs. There is a Content Pack available in the Marketplace, but there is some work required and a necessary adjustment to the included Event Marker (REGEX). Let's start by asking the DBA to turn on Oracle Listener logging and Oracle Alert logging. We'll need the path to and the names of these logs, as they are what we will

vRLI is up and running, you're collecting vCenter events, tasks and alarms, as well as ESXi Host logs. In addition, vRLI is receiving...

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...

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...

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. ...

A data analytics engine, a notification mechanism, a costing platform, a performance analyzer, a capacity planner: vROps is all of those...

vSphere monitoring, Application monitoring, Hardware monitoring, Operating System (OS) monitoring, vROps can do it all! This blog will...