Founded in 2011, SaltStack was one of the industry leaders in configuration management. They built and maintained the Salt Open project, developed a commercial platform called SaltStack Enterprise, and offer a compliance and vulnerability add-on to SaltStack Enterprise called SecOps. In October 2020, VMware acquired SaltStack, re-branded SaltStack Enterprise to SaltStack Config, and is now including it in vRealize Automation 8.3 (vRA Standard Plus and above). There are sev

This past Thursday, February 4, was GA day for new releases of products in the VMware vRealize Suite! vRealize Operations Manager,...

The automation platform in the VMware vRealize Suite is called vRealize Automation (vRA). It can be used to automate deployments in your vSphere environment and beyond, from basic VM deployments to full application builds and everything in between. vRA can be broken out into four main modules: Cloud Assembly - used to create and deploy machines, applications, and services to your infrastructure (vSphere and beyond). Documentation: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Automa

This final blog in the vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) series will focus on Content Packs. Similar to management packs in vRealize...

Our last VMware vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) blog focused on dashboards, specifically those out of the box. This blog will focus on the...

We have vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) installed and configured. We've explored the Administration tab in great detail, where do we go from...

Last time we got vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) up and running. Today we'll look at administration of the platform. The version we are...

The ability to monitor and manage vSphere environments gets most of the attention from the VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) community, but the platform also has visibility into Configuration and Compliance. The fourth pillar of the Quick Start page gets us started. Start by clicking the Compliance link. There are two available tabs: SDDC and VMC SDDC. They represent your private cloud vSphere SDDC and your VMware Cloud SDDC on AWS environments respectively. There are thr

Back to troubleshooting with VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), this blog will explore the Troubleshooting pillar of vROps beyond the...

Last time we configured the vRealize Operations (vROps) cost settings, this time we'll explore the cost related dashboards. There are several out of the box, I'll provide a custom dashboard as well. Let's start with the most prominent one, Assess Cost, which is available on the Quick Start page. Click the Assess Cost link at the bottom of the Optimize Capacity pillar. You'll be presented with a dashboard showing an inventory, datacenter costs, and your most (and least) exp

Continuing along in our VMware vRealize Operations series, this blog will focus on the costing features of vROps. From application owners to executives, everybody wants to know what things cost, we can use vROps to determine that. Before we dig into the costing dashboards, we should first make our configuration settings. The first order of business is to set your currency. After initial installation, you will be prompted with the banner here. Select the Actions dropdown, c

In our previous blogs about VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) we explored the first two pillars of the Home page: Optimize Performance...

Your VMware vROps environment is up and running, you've connected the vSphere adapter to your vCenter/s, but now you need to deploy more,...

What-If? What if we add VMs? What if we add physical servers supporting those VMs? What if we plan to migrate some workloads to the...

In our previous blog we discussed the Assess Capacity section of the Optimize Capacity pillar of vROps. Today we will dig into the...

Continuing along in our series around the four pillars of vRealize Operations, this blog will focus on the second one, Optimize Capacity....

In our previous blog we discussed Workload Optimization using VMware vRealize Operations (vROps). Another key vROps capability is...

I've deployed vROps, I'm alerting on problems, but I'd like to automate some of the responses to those Alerts. How can we do this?...

VMware dropped vRealize Operations (vROps) 8.2 a couple weeks ago. Lots of great new stuff, including the VMware vRealize Ping management pack. Matt Bradford published a great blog post discussing everything new in 8.2: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/10/whats-new-vrops-82.html. I'd like to go into a bit more detail around the Ping management pack. For years, users have been asking for up/down functionality with varying degrees of success. I've personally used

Before it was VMware Tanzu, it was Pivotal Software, which had two main products: Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and Spring Framework. PCF...

Founded in 2003 by Frank Luddy and originally intended to fill the gap Peregrine Systems vacated, ServiceNow has become the industry...

There are several factors that go into sizing a vROps cluster, from vCPU and memory, to network latency, and disk. The new online sizing...