When the vRealize 8 products dropped, I was like a kid in a sweet shop, upgrading everything as quick as possible before my customers tried to, so I could encounter any issues first, but also the new features, so I could show them off. The issue During the upgrade of vROPs, I hit an issue … Continue reading vRSLCM 8.0 – vROPs 7.5 upgrade fails due to Admin password expiry
A customer of mine queried the details of a metric available in vROPs “IsGreenForPlacement” You can find this by selecting a cluster in vROPs, go to All Metrics, and just search placement. And here is a screenshot of the Metric in a sparkline. The customer uses this metric to give a signal (Green/Red Button on … Continue reading vROPs – What is the “IsGreenForPlacement” Metric + Dashboard
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 … Continue reading Using vROPs to track adoption – Such as VMware Tools upgrades
As a vSphere administrator, you’ve built your career on understanding infrastructure at a granular level, datastores, DRS clusters, vSwitches, and HA configurations. You’re used to managing VMs at scale. Now, you’re hearing about KubeVirt, and while it promises Kubernetes-native VM orchestration, it comes with a caveat: Kubernetes fluency is required. This post is designed to … Continue reading Learn KubeVirt: Deep Dive for VMware vSphere Admins
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