Interesting use case I saw recently on Twitter. User wanted to know which VMs were most active (IOPs) on a particular Datastore Cluster....

The VMware vROps super metric, so powerful! Out of the box, VMware and Blue Medora provide thousands of metrics, but there are still times you might want to create your own. Say for example you want to know Max CPU Usage for all ESXi Hosts on a Cisco HyperFlex Cluster, create a super metric! In vROps 6.x, the super metric editor wasn't the most intuitive, but in 7.5 it got much better, and in vROps 8.0 it's as clean as it's every been. It's now simple to create super metri

A client was trying to track down port traffic over his Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects (FI).  Specifically, he wanted to see errors,...

Tuning alerts in vROps is fairly straight forward for metric based Alerts, this is not the case for event based Alerts. Rick...

There are three dashboards I'd like to rotate every few minutes on a large monitor in my workspace. They are: To rotate between these three dashboards do the following: - log into vROps and go to the Dashboards tab - select Actions - Manage Dashboards - select ACTIONS - Reorder/Autoswitch Dashboards - find the dashboard you want to start with, double click in the Auto Transition column to turn it On, adjust your interval (default is 300 seconds), and tell it which dashboard

While attending a recent Dell EMC Virtual Optimization Assessment (VOA), I discovered how to change the summary dashboard shown when...