Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Skyline Health Diagnostics I’m aware that during any incident with VMware estates one issue that adversely impacts teams particularly those that work in secure environments is the capability to share logs expediently with VMware Global Support Services. In some circumstances this could be due to the need for logs to have information redacted, data export […]
Exporting vROPs Alert and Symptom Definitions as CSV I saw a question over on VMTN asking how to export Alert and Symptom definitions from vROPs from the GUI. It is perfectly possible to do that with vROPs 8.1, but you are going to need to go through page after page of definitions and export them […]
Adding Virtual Machine advanced settings to custom properties in vRealize Operations I’ve been working with a customer recently that want to display advanced settings from a virtual machine in vRealize Operations manager. If you didn’t know vROPs does a fantastic job of collecting object settings and presenting them back so they can be tracked in […]
vROPs Dashboards – Kubernetes Namespaces ***Dashboard now available on VMware Code and GitHub*** A few weeks ago I installed the vROPs management pack for container monitoring, which provides a great overview of the kubernetes cluster, nodes and pods in the environment. This dashboard is built from the context of the containers world adaptor and is […]
Import Azure Rate Card to vROPs I’ve been working with a customer over the last day or so to import their Azure cost information (or Azure rate card) into vROPs so that they can run a what-if analysis to plan a migration to the public cloud. Within vROPs we have the option to upload our […]
vROPs management pack for Container monitoring Available on the VMware solution exchange is a Management pack for monitoring containers, I recently had a look at Project Octant as a cool way to visualise a Kubernetes cluster and even troubleshoot issues. Octant gives a great view of the cluster, but perhaps not in the wider infrastructure […]