One of the most common questions I’ve come across in previous years is how do I get the VM notes held in vCenter into vRealize (Aria) Operations? Great news, in vRealize Operations 8.10 and later, you can now collect those properties for the virtual machines simply by enabling the property to be collected in your … Continue reading Collect VM Notes in (Aria) vRealize Operations: A Step-by-Step Guide
In this blog post, I am going to cover the configuration and consumption of the Tanzu Observability integration with vRealize Operations Cloud. As this is blog post is released during VMware Explore, under the announcement of the VMware Aria brand for Cloud Management tooling, these products will become vRealize Operations Cloud > VMware Aria Operations … Continue reading Tanzu Observability – Configuring vRealize Operations Cloud Integration
In this blog post, we are going to synchronise our vRealize Operations costing information with CloudHealth, to provide the ability to have true multi-cloud cost reporting, that includes our on-premises VMware Datacenter. Configuring the CloudHeath Integration Pre-Requisites Your vRealize Operations instance will need to have the basic cost settings configured, I have written a deep … Continue reading CloudHealth – Configuring vRealize Operations cost visibility for your private datacenters
In years gone by, costing of your technology platforms was covered in a product called vRealize Business for Cloud. Since the move to the 8.x code based, this product was EOL’d. The main functions where customers saw value, to provide costings for your datacenter and virtual machines, was wrapped up into vRealize Operations. This blog … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Costing Setup and Configuration Deep Dive
Recently, I was involved in some work to assist the VMware Tanzu Observability team to assist them in updating their deliverables for OpenShift. Now it’s generally available, I found some time to test it out in my lab. For this blog post, I am going to pull in metrics from my VMware Cloud on AWS … Continue reading Tanzu Observability – First look at monitoring OpenShift & VMware Cloud on AWS