You'd like to allocate more CPU, Memory, and Disk to several VMs in a vSphere Cluster, but you're not sure they'll fit, what to do? ...

Last time we discussed Aria Operations Badge Health , this time we'll define the Workload Badge. I personally think of Workload as how...

A couple weeks ago we released Aria Operations 8.12 , it had a few bugs, so this past weekend we released 8.12 HF1 , I applied it in my lab this morning via the Aria Operations Lifecycle Manager. First, download the patch itself. Once complete, it'll indicate as much. Go to Environments, select your environment, the Operations tab, the three dots, Patches, and Install Patch. You'll then be prompted for confirmation. Click INSTALL and watch the progress. Back in your environme

As you know, VM Snapshots can consume space and cause performance issues in your vSphere environment. Because of that, we want to maintain proper VM Snapshot hygiene. We'd like to know which VMs have Snapshots, how big they are, how old they are, and more. Out of the box, Aria Operations provides visibility into several different VM Snapshots metrics and properties. We can see things like Snapshot size, Creator, and Number of Days Old, among others. I'd also like to know

The ability to rightsize VMs is a powerful feature of Aria Operations, one that we've discussed before . VMware Staff Technical Marketing Architect Brandon Gordon recently provided an update to his exhaustive blog on VM Rightsizing as well, you can find it here . Within the UI, you can exclude VMs from Rightsizing by selecting the VM and choosing EXCLUDE VM(S). What if you want to do this programmatically? API! In this we'll use both the Public API and Internal API. First

You've deployed VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations or vROps), configured your vCenter Adapters, and are now seeing data!...

Today I'm monitoring a handful of Services on a Windows VM, I'd like to monitor these same Services across hundreds of Windows VMs. ...

VMware Aria Operations provides VM OS Uptime in seconds, how do we convert that to minutes, or hours, or days? Super Metrics ! You want to know the average VM CPU Usage for all VMs in a vCenter, how can we determine that? Super Metrics! You'd like to know ESXi Host properties/metrics and Cluster properties/metrics related to VMs, how can I relate them? Super Metrics! There are a couple blogs I'd like to highlight before digging in, the first is from VMware Principal Techni

VMs reboot all the time and while most often you won't care, there are times you want to be notified. How can we use VMware Aria...

I want to use VMware Aria Operations Automation Central to rightsize our VMs during maintenance windows. To make that easier, I'd like to put tags on my VMs, specifically vROps Tags, not vSphere Tags. Exploring vROps Tags , they aren't exactly what I want. In fact, they present as a parent object of the tagged entity, more of a Custom Group than a tag. What I really want is a Custom Property , which are tag-like properties put on objects, in my case VMs. To create one go

Want to monitor a Windows Service/Process or a Linux Process? We can do it in Aria Operations with the Telegraf Agent. Assuming the...

You want to monitor websites, VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) can help, we'll use Telegraf Agents to do it! Telegraf Agents offer powerful functionality, giving you the ability to do many different things: Operating System Monitoring Windows Service Monitoring Application Monitoring Custom Script Monitoring Remote Checks Remote Checks allow you to remotely monitor targets via HTTP, ICMP, TCP, or UDP. This blog will focus on HTTP checks of URLs. S

There are several different ways to send VMware Aria Operations Alerts out as notifications, we will discuss sending them to Slack here. ...

VMware Aria Operations SaaS and VMware Aria Operations for Logs SaaS Services have been activated, you've deployed Cloud Proxies (CP) for...

Business Hours dropped in the July release of Aria Operations Cloud, previously known as vRealize Operations Cloud, we discussed it here ....

In 2020, VMware introduced an integration between vRealize Operations (vROps) and vRealize Network Insight (vRNI), it was called the vRNI...

So many uses cases for the vROps API, we've discussed using it to delete Adapter Instances and Manage Content, but today we'll focus on...

In June 2021 I published a blog on vROps Service Discovery , I'd like to provide an update. 8.10 is the current version of vROps, and...

Custom Groups are a powerful construct in vROps, most often used to group objects together for use within Dashboards, Reports, or Views. ...

VMware just dropped vROps 8.10 HF1, details here . Let's apply it to our vROps 8.10 deployment via vRSLCM. You can also do this via the vROps Admin UI if you'd like. First, confirm you are running the latest Product Support Pack, in this case Policy 8.10.0.2, which supports vROps 8.10. If not, click the CHECK SUPPORT PACKS ONLINE button and apply it. Mine's done. Then go to Settings - Binary Mapping - Patch Binaries - CHECK PATCHES ONLINE. Once complete, you'll see vROps

For whatever reason, you're having issues deleting a vROps Adapter Instance from the UI, here's how you do it from the vROps Suite-API. Go to your vROps Suite-API URL: https://vrops_fqdn_or_ip/suite-api, which will re-direct you to https://vrops_fqdn_or_ip/suite-api/doc/swagger-ui/html. Mine looks like this. Remember, vROps Suite-API documentation was converted to Swagger back in vROps 8.2. Once here, click the Authorize button to authenticate and enter your credentials. Y

You want a view showing VMs, the ESXi Hosts they are on, the Clusters they are in, and properties and metrics for each. Yep, we can do it, and it'll end up looking something like this! When I first tried doing this, I created a View using multiple objects, thinking the relationships would be made, but they aren't. While all Objects are included, they aren't all on the same line, no relationships are being made. Parent ESXi Host and Parent Cluster are available properties on

The July 2022 drop of vROps Cloud brought all sorts of goodness: Synthetic Monitoring, Automation Central Updates, Rule-Based...

What is VMware Skyline? As indicated in this FAQ, VMware Skyline is a proactive self-service support technology available to customers...