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...

You're using VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), you'd like to expand it to monitor your Microsoft Active Directory (AD) environment,...

For years customers have used vRealize Operations for Horizon (V4H) and the Horizon Adapter to monitor their Horizon environments. ...

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...

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...

Through the years, vROps has gotten quite good with its ability to manage content, things like exporting and importing dashboards,...

Last month at VMworld 2021 VMware announced that vROps customers would be entitled to the vRTVS compute and storage management packs with...

With every new release vROps brings new features and added functionality! vROps 8.0 featured the Troubleshooting Workbench , vROps 8.2...

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. Specifically, you want to collect logs from your Linux VMs. Well, we can do that with the vRLI Linux Agent. In a previous blog , we discussed the vRLI Windows Agent and how to use that to collect Windows Events. This blog will be the Linux analog to that one. Before getting into the details, let's take a look from above. Your vRLI Clus

Beyond vROps, vRLI, and vRA, the vRealize Suite comes packaged with the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM). It's the vRealize...

Yesterday was a big day! We released new versions of every product in our vRealize Suite: vROps, vRLI, vRA, vRNI, and vRSLCM. Here are...

We often talk about application monitoring with VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), there are 25 different applications that we can...

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...