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Using vROPs to track adoption – Such as VMware Tools upgrades

I had an interesting question from a customer recently;

Can we track the adoption/upgrades of VMware tools to the latest version in a vROPs dashboard

At first, I thought sure this is easy. But then looking at the various different default options, nothing would give me a graph which shows the increasing uptake or upgrades of VMware Tools to the last version.

I consulted internally, and between myself and my customer we came up with the following solution. Which was quite simple once we thought it out.

Solution

  1. Create a custom group based on the information you want to capture

In the below example, I’ve done this to target VMs with VMware Tools 10.3.10, you could leave it as “10.3” to target any 10.3.X release. Continue reading Using vROPs to track adoption – Such as VMware Tools upgrades