For me, every release of vRealize Operations (vROps) has a highlight, in 8.4 that was Automation Central! It provides a lightweight...

Out of the box, vRealize Operations (vROps) will monitor and alert on Virtual Machine Disk Space. The Alert itself is called "One or...

VMware introduced the ServiceNow Notification Plugin in vROps 7.5, giving customers the ability to send vROps Alerts to ServiceNow. We...

APIs are a powerful way to interact programmatically with products, such as vROps Cloud, which has a rich set of APIs and detailed...

Acquired in October 2018, CloudHealth is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering from VMware, capturing public cloud costs, compliance, and workload performance metrics for analysis and projection uses cases. VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) has similar capabilities for your private cloud and VMware Cloud datacenters. Mashing up the data under a single UI makes sense, and we can now do that! There are two management packs for vROps that will do this: VMware vRealize Operat

vROps 8.5 dropped a couple weeks ago, it's a minor release addressing security updates and bug fixes. Release Notes can be found here:...

The latest version of the vRealize True Visibility Suite (vRTVS) Management Pack for Oracle Database dropped on July 15! This release...

Late last year we discussed the VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) What-If Analysis feature: https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vmware-vr...

For years, the vRealize True Visibility Suite management pack for Dell EMC VMAX supported VMAX3 and VMAX AFA arrays. It now supports...

In the last blog we discussed Windows Service monitoring with the Telegraf Agent, but there is another lighter-weight option for...

Years ago we had Hyperic Agents, then we had Endpoint Operations Agents, and now we have Telegraf Agents! As of vRealize Operations...

I'd like to know which Windows Servers in my environment have seen EventID 4740 in their Security Log, indicating a user account has been...

You want to know how much a certain VM costs? No problem, vRealize Operations (vROps) has you covered. Specifically, it'll tell you how much you're paying for CPU, Memory, and Disk on that VM. How are these calculations made? Roughly like this: Input ESXi Host Costs Configure Cluster Costs Determine CPU and Memory Base Rates Calculate VM Costs based on CPU, Memory, and Disk Used First, tell vROps which currency you'd like to use, enable cost calculation, and input the cos

In our last vRealize Automation (vRA) blog post we discussed the cluster architecture. This time we're going to discuss Cloud Assembly, most often used to create Cloud Templates that build and deploy VMs, Applications, and Services. In this example, I'd like to create a Cloud Template that builds VMs. It'll give the user the ability to request the Operating System (OS), number of vCPUs, and amount of Memory. We'll take the disk defaults and provide the network via NSX. F

The data analytics and monitoring platform you know and love can see your public cloud workloads too! The power of VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) is most often used for your vSphere private cloud, but it can also be used for AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, and VMC on AWS. Besides capturing public cloud services, vROps features a migration assistant helping you determine the cost to migrate to public cloud providers, it's called the What-If Analysis. There are six main use cas

VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) is a robust data analytics platform providing insight into your vSphere environment and beyond. When...

Visibility into your container environment with VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) got much more robust this past quarter with the latest...

For many years, customers were asking for up/down monitoring capabilities from VMware vROps. To a certain extent, vROps was able to provide insight into availability based on health, properties, and metrics. With 8.2, and the Ping management pack, vROps is now able to provide up/down status of targets based on ping metrics. I wrote a blog about this several months ago: https://bpatvmware.wixsite.com/bpatvmware/post/vmware-vrealize-ping-management-pack . This blog explored

I first heard about VMware {code} a couple years ago, since then it has become my favorite VMware-related site. It has all sorts of...

Before vROps 8.3 we had the vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA), the tool built into vROps, designed to assess the capacity,...

If I have a single vROps license and want to apply it across my entire vSphere environment, license management with vROps is easy. Go...

How is vSphere DRS and pDRS different than vROps Workload Optimization? This has been a common question since Workload Optimization was...

Your VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) environment is up and running and collecting vSphere objects and metrics from vCenter. It might...

Late last year we finished our blog series on VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), but we skipped one final section waiting on a couple...