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How to Add vSphere Tags to vRealize Operations Alert Emails using a Custom Payload

Wondering how to add the vSphere Tag for a virtual machine to emails sent out for alerts? I recently came across this Reddit post, so decided to try out the Custom Payload feature from vRealize (Aria) Operations and want to share the steps I took to achieve this setting. Here‘s how to configure a Payload … Continue reading How to Add vSphere Tags to vRealize Operations Alert Emails using a Custom Payload

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vRealize Operations – Where did my “Object Relationships” view go?

The Issue From vRealize Operations 8.6.2, it’s been noticed that the “Object Relationships” page has disappeared from the navigation column/settings pages in the product UI. The Cause This page is being redesigned by the VMware team, and is hidden from view in current releases. The Workaround You can manually access the page by going to … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Where did my “Object Relationships” view go?

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Tanzu Observability – Configuring vRealize Operations Cloud Integration

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

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Sending vRealize Operations Alerts to ElasticStack (ELK)

This blog post is thanks to an internal query, that I thought should be easy enough to complete, however my usage of an ELK environment is limited, so it was a good chance to dig in and learn something new. In this blog post, I’m going to detail the configurations for pushing vRealize Operations Alert … Continue reading Sending vRealize Operations Alerts to ElasticStack (ELK)

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CloudHealth – Configuring vRealize Operations cost visibility for your private datacenters

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