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...

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