Last week VMware dropped the 8.14 versions of the products in the Aria Suite: Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation, and Aria Lifecycle Manager. This week we dropped the 9.0 version of the Management Packs included in the Aria Operations for Integrations Suite. The highlight here is that these Management Packs no longer require their own license, but rather consume an Aria Operations license unit, let's take a look. Looking at our Licensing Page before

Last month at VMworld 2021 VMware announced that vROps customers would be entitled to the vRTVS compute and storage management packs with the next release of vRTVS. Well, that release is now GA! Here is a link to VMware PMM Peter Haagenson's blog announcing it. If you are a vROps customer, you can now download these management packs from the VMware Marketplace and started collecting data immediately. Let's take a look at the compute management packs, which are now being ca

VMware introduced the ServiceNow Notification Plugin in vROps 7.5, giving customers the ability to send vROps Alerts to ServiceNow. We covered this and the subsequently released vRTVS Management Pack for ServiceNow (3.0) in a previous blog. The latest vRTVS Management Pack for ServiceNow (4.1) adds several key new features, we'll discuss two of them here: Alert synchronization supporting Alerts, Events, and Incidents CMDB population and synchronization Formal Release Notes

For years, the vRealize True Visibility Suite management pack for Dell EMC VMAX supported VMAX3 and VMAX AFA arrays. It now supports PowerMax as well! Collecting data from Unisphere for both platforms, it looks like this. The adapter connects directly to the Unisphere REST API (8.1+) over HTTPS. Different levels of security can be configured in the adapter via Advanced Settings. Configuration documentation found here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vRealize-True-Visibi

Before it was VMware Tanzu, it was Pivotal Software, which had two main products: Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and Spring Framework. PCF was Pivotals distribution of the open source Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Pivotal was formed in 2012, spinning out of EMC and VMware. In 2013, General Electric and Cloud Foundry invested $105M in Pivotal. In 2018, Pivotal raised $555M via an IPO. In December 2019, Pivotal was acquire

Founded in 2003 by Frank Luddy and originally intended to fill the gap Peregrine Systems vacated, ServiceNow has become the industry leader in IT Service Management (ITSM). Its Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering focuses on Incident and Problem & Change management, but has several other pillars. IT Service Management: Incident Management and Change & ReleaseManagement IT Operations Management: Discovery, Service Mapping, Event Management, Cloud Management, and Orchestrat

We recently updated the dashboards contained in our MongoDB management pack for VMware vRealize Operations. The new dashboards have been modified for greater ease of use, efficient navigation, and to highlight the relationships between Mongod's, Mongos's and VMware VMs. Download available here: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_mongodb_la_3_0_0

We recently updated the dashboards contained in our Oracle Database management pack for VMware vRealize Operations. The new dashboards have been modified for greater ease of use, efficient navigation, and to highlight the relationships between Oracle Database Instances and VMware VMs. Download available here: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_oracle_database_la_2_0_5

We recently overhauled the dashboards contained in our Cisco Networking management pack. This is the package that supports Catalyst, MDS, and Nexus switches from Cisco. The new dashboards have been modified for greater ease of use, efficient navigation, and to highlight the relationships between Cisco Switches and VMware VMs and ESXi Hosts. Download available here: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_cisco_networking_la_3_2_1

A client was trying to track down port traffic over his Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects (FI). Specifically, he wanted to see errors, packets, and general traffic through both ethernet and fiber channel ports on his FIs. The Blue Medora management pack for Cisco UCS captures the following metrics: Ethernet Ports: - Frame Check Sequence Errors (errors/s) - Receive Errors (errors/s) - Received Bits (bit/s) - Received Packets (packets/s) - Sent Bits (bit/s) - Sent Packets (packe