vRA_vROPs

At VMworld 2020 the new vRealize AI Cloud was announced.  This is a huge step forward for VMware to bring AI into the fold to help optimize customer environments.  The ability to create a digital copy of your environment and run ML against the copy in hundreds of scenarios is a game changer for VMware.  … Read more

At VMworld they announced the new vRealize Cloud Universal suite of products.  This new flexible licensing model merging both onprem and SaaS offerings is a smart move for VMware.  VMware is acknowledging that not everyone is 100% cloud yet and by allowing them a single license to manage both the onprem and cloud was the … Read more

As an Architect one thing you are constantly hit with is capacity planning, migration planning, and cost savings meetings.  I am sure anyone reading this article has been sitting in their office and someone ask, “Hey could you run some quick estimate numbers on what X would cost if we performed Y?” This article is … Read more

Have you ever needed a quick way to discover any and all virtual machines in your environment that have a mounted ISO?  An example of this would be you are going to be performing an ESXi or VXRail upgrade and need the ability to migrate VMs from one host to another as part of maintenance … Read more

One of the things I enjoy about VMWare vRealize Operations is the ability to add or remove HCI nodes in a cluster.  I don’t know if I have been fortunate or unfortunate in my career but I have had to do a lot of VxRail/vSAN Ready Node adds.  On some occasions I have been requested … Read more

I thought I would take a moment to write an article on an exercise that happened to me recently.  Recently, I was requested to see if a new project could go on an existing VxRail/vSAN cluster.  My trusty tool I like to go to for a quick answer, pretty visuals, and costs matrix is vROPs.  … Read more

I must admit I have not added a new non-internal management pack to vROPs since 6.x.  I thought I would take a moment to write a refresher article and maybe help those who are attempting to do it for the first time.  I hope y’all find this article useful. Step 1. Get to add mgmt … Read more

Have you ever needed to execute a change control but leadership is concerned about off hours work impacting offshore team.  Wouldn’t it be awesome if in a matter of a minute in vROPs you could see your cluster utilization?  I know there are plenty of ways to gather this information from a multitude of tools … Read more

Have you ever seen widgets from different dashboards you wanted to combine into a new custom dashboard?  Do you also not want to waste time recreating the wheel?  If the answers to these questions are yes then here is a step by step cheat I use leveraging copy/paste of widgets to generate quick custom dashboards. … Read more

This will be a quick article since it is really easy.  I have had someone reach out to me recently after explaining to them how to copy and paste widgets.  They do not have admin access and informed me that there was a shared dashboard they wanted to edit to perform the copy job from.  … Read more

Have you ever been sitting there and your boss requests you create a custom dashboard for operations in vROPS?  You go through building metrics, views, and the custom dashboard and now it is time to share the dashboard.  This article is on a quick and easy way to share a dashboard you created with a … Read more

One of the custom views I like to create is the ability to see which VMs in my clusters have a mounted ISO file.  There are many justified reasons to mount an ISO file via the CD-ROM on a virtual machine.  However, this prevents the VM from being able to vMotion.  This can impact things … Read more