Category: vROps

Super Metric, SuperMetric, vRealize Operations, vROps

Exclude “Aggregate” Instanced Metric using vRealize Operations Super Metric

11/01/2022 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

As you know vRealize Operations is collecting tons of various metrics. Some of these metrics are so-called “Instanced Metrics” and disabled in the default configuration in newer vROps versions. A list of disabled instanced metrics for e.g. Virtual Machine object type is available here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.6/com.vmware.vcom.metrics.doc/GUID-1322F5A4-DA1D-481F-BBEA-99B228E96AF2.html#disabled-instanced-metrics-18 If you need any of those metrics, you can enable …

vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, vRLI, vROps

vCenter Events as vRealize Operations Alerts using vRealize Log Insight

14/11/2021 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

As you probably know vRealize Operations provides several symptom definitions based on message events as part of the vCenter Solution content OOTB. You can see some of them in the next picture. These events are used in alert definitions to raise vReaalize Operations alarms any time one of those events is triggered in any of …

vRealize Operations, vROps

vRealize Operations AMQP Integration using Webhooks

16/05/202113/11/2021 | by Thomas Kopton | 3 Comments

With the version 8.4 vRealize Operations introduced the Webhook Outbound Plugin feature. This new Webhook outbound plugin works without any additional software, the Webhook Shim server becomes obsolet. In this post, I will explain how to integrate vRealize Operations with an AMQP system. For this exercise, I have deployed a RabbitMQ server but the concept …

vRealize Operations, vROps

Monitoring vSphere HA and Admission Control Settings using vRealize Operations

20/12/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) and Admission Control ensure that sufficient resources are reserved for virtual machine recovery when a host fails. Usually, my customers are running their vSphere clusters in either N+1 or N*2 configurations reflected corresponding Admission Control settings In one of my previous blog posts, I have described how vRealize Operations helps with …

Dashboard, vRealize Operations, vROps

Checking SSL/TLS Certificate Validity Period using vRealize Operations Application Monitoring Agents

24/10/202025/10/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | Leave a Comment

In my 2019 article “Checking SSL/TLS Certificate Validity Period using vRealize Operations and End Point Operations Agent” on VMware Cloud Management Blog (https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/05/checking-ssl-tls-certificate-validity-period-using-vrealize-operations-and-end-point-operations-agent.html) I have described how to check the remaining validity of SSL/TLS certificates. The method back then was to utilize the End Point Operations Agents. Since vRealize Operations 7.5 new Application Monitoring capabilities …

Content, vRealize Operations, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager, vROps, vRSLCM

vRealize Operations Content Management – CD Pipeline – Part 1

12/09/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | Leave a Comment

vRealize Operations provide a wide range of content OOB. It gives the Ops teams a variety of dashboards, view, alerts etc. to run and manage their environments. Sooner or later, in most cases rather sooner than later, vROps users will create their own content. It might be completely new dashboards or maybe just adjusted alert …

vRealize Operations, vRO, vROps

Self-Healing with vRealize Operations and vRealize Orchestrator

05/09/202004/04/2021 | by Thomas Kopton | 5 Comments

The vRealize Operations Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator provides the ability to execute vRO workflows as part of the alerting and remediation process in vROps. The vRO workflows can be executed manually or automatically. With this solution it is easy to implement sophisticated self-healing workflows for your vROps managed environment. In this blog post I …

vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, vRLI, vROps

vRealize Operations and Logging via CFAPI and Syslog

31/07/202015/08/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | 3 Comments

Without any doubt configuring vRealize Operations to send log messages to a vRealize Log Insight instance is the best way to collect, parse and display structured and structured log information. In this post I will explain the major differences between CFAPI and Syslog as the protocol used to forward log messages to a log server …

Dashboard, vRealize Operations, vROps

ESXi Cluster (non-HCI) Rightsizing using vRealize Operations

30/07/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | 1 Comment

vRealize Operations with its four main pillars: Optimize Performance Optimize Capacity Troubleshoot Manage Configuration provides a perfect solution to manage complex SDDC environments. The “Optimize Performance” part of vRealize Operations provides a wide range of features like workload optimization to ensure consistent performance in your datacenters or VM rightsizing to reduce bottlenecks and ensure best …

Dashboard, vRealize Operations, vROps

How to Merge vROps Dashboards – Anatomy of the Content

15/02/202005/03/2020 | by Thomas Kopton | Leave a Comment

Recently I was asked if it is possible to merge two, or generally speaking n different vRealize Operations Dashboards into one Dashboard. To answer that question and provide a procedure how to do it we need to inspect the internal structure of a vROps Dashboard. Anatomy of a vRealize Operations Dashboard As everyone knows vROps …