VMware CMTY Podcast Appearance – Discussing Tanzu Mission Control and vROPs

Thanks to this blog post, I was delighted to be invited as a guest on the VMware CMTY Podcast (YouTube Page) hosted by Eric Nielsen and Matt Langguth.  Originally I was going to discuss the out of the box vROPs dashboards such as finding out how long a VM has been powered off for, however … Continue reading VMware CMTY Podcast Appearance – Discussing Tanzu Mission Control and vROPs

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How to build a vROPs dashboard for tracking Total VMs deployed and Growth Trend

In this Blog post I am going to detail how I created a vROPs dashboard based on a customer’s request. Can we track how many VMs have been created in the past week and track if the number increases or decreases in each cluster? If you want to just get the dashboard, see directly below, … Continue reading How to build a vROPs dashboard for tracking Total VMs deployed and Growth Trend

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How to build vROPs dashboard for tracking VM Growth over X days

I came across an interesting query on Reddit regarding vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs), summarised the query; “Can I have a vROPs report/dashboard which shows me the storage usage by VMs over the past 3 days” The short answer is yes, and I produced the following dashboard, views and report and uploaded to code.vmware.com for the … Continue reading How to build vROPs dashboard for tracking VM Growth over X days

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vROPs Dashboard – Display port group with VLAN ID and map to virtual machines

My customer asked me how to display the VLAN ID for a virtual machine in vROPs. The short answer is, due to the VLAN ID only being available from the Distributed switch adapter, its not simple to display this in a single list view. So after some thinking around this, I came up with the … Continue reading vROPs Dashboard – Display port group with VLAN ID and map to virtual machines