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vRealize Operations Management Pack Builder – Building your first management pack

What is the Management Pack Builder? Well, it’s exactly as the name suggests, a tool for building your own vRealize Operations Management Pack, to bring data into vROPs whereby there is no existing Management Pack today. How do I get access to it? You can sign up for the BETA here. Currently VMware is taking … Continue reading vRealize Operations Management Pack Builder – Building your first management pack

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vRealize Operations – Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Telegraf

In this post, I will cover how to deploy Prometheus and the Telegraf exporter and configure so that the data can be collected by vRealize Operations. Overview vRealize Operations Delivers intelligent operations management with application-to-storage visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Using policy-based automation, operations teams automate key processes and improve the IT efficiency. … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus and Telegraf

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vRealize Operations – Creating interactions between separate dashboards

Whilst reading some of the older vRealize Operations documentation, I stumbled on something I didn’t think was possible. The ability to create interactions between separate dashboards. At first, I thought could not be correct? I don’t remember seeing this option. But sure enough it’s there. So, I thought I’d write a quick blog about it … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Creating interactions between separate dashboards

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vRealize Operations – Error: Failed to Test adapter instance – Finding Adapter Logs

The Issue I had installed the “VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Horizon 1.2” into my vROPs instance, and tried to connect my Horizon instance, instantly hitting the helpful error message of: Failed to Test adapter instance. Reason – Unknown Error. Please contact support team Obviously, I’d probably done something wrong, but I didn’t want … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Error: Failed to Test adapter instance – Finding Adapter Logs

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vRealize Operations integration with Tanzu Mission Control for auto cluster discovery

A while ago I wrote about the vRealize Operations Kubernetes Management pack which works for all CNCF conformant Kubernetes platforms. One of the best features of this management pack is the Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) integration it offers with vRealize Operations (vROPs). This means when you use TMC to provision Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) clusters, … Continue reading vRealize Operations integration with Tanzu Mission Control for auto cluster discovery