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#vROps Webinar Series 2017 – Part 2- Full Stack monitoring with vRealize Operations Manager

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Time to share the recording of the second episode of the vROps Webinar Series 2017. This time Sunny and I were joined by Craig Lee and Brock Peterson from Blue Medora to talk about “Full Stack Visibility” which vROps can provide by using various extensibility solutions.

We discussed the following use cases and demonstrated them in live environments:

Use Case 1 – Full-Stack vSphere Monitoring. From application to Infrastructure.
Use Case 2 – Amazon RDS Workloads. Monitoring public cloud workloads with vROps.
Use Case 3 – vROps Extensibility. Metrics, Logs and Costing come together along with other 3rd party extensibility options.

Special thanks to Blue Medora for participating in the Webinar Series and contributing to the vCommunity.

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Can I monitor hardware OOTB with #vROps?

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So very recently i had a great question from a customer regarding ways to monitor things like the temperature of host systems. Would they need a management pack or is this something vROps can do out of the box?

The short answer to this is yes, but it is not immediately obvious how.

There are a great many metrics that come with a vanilla build of vROps but not all of them are enabled a good example of these are the sensor metrics.

To find the metrics you have enabled or disabled in your vROps deployment you will need to go to policies and edit the policy pertinent to your environment.

In the left hand menu choose “Collect Metrics and Properties” as shown in the example below.

Then in the main window do a search for using the key word Sensor as shown below.

You can see that the “state” is inherited from the default policy and the metrics are all disabled.

You can choose to edit the state directly per metric (as shown below), or click actions and set the state for all the metrics you have selected.

Make sure you click save before exiting your policy.

All you need to then do is wait 5 or so minutes for the first sets of data to appear.

Naturally you can use this to disable the collection of certain metrics as well.

Announcing Part 2 – #vROps Webinar series 2017 – “Full Stack” monitoring with vRealize Operations Manager

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As promised, vROps Webinar Series 2017 is back with the second episode of the year. Last time around we looked closely into the features of vROps 6.5 and as stated during that webinar, we will now show you how you can unlock the full capabilities of vROps using the extensibility of the platform.

If you have been following the Webinar Series, by now you have a complete visibility into the capabilities of vROps, when it comes to monitoring the vSphere infrastructure. While this infrastructure is important for the IaaS provider, what business cares about is Applications. The good news is that vROps provides you an extensible platform which can be leveraged to extend the product capability into any area where metrics exist. This could be at the layers of your Software Defined Datacenter such as Compute, Network & Storage, or in the Application Stack and it’s tiers such as App, Web and DB.

While VMware provides a number of plugins which allow you to extend the platform capabilities into applications, they also leverage strategic partners such as Blue Medora to provide you with management packs which can go deep into applications to complete the “FULL STACK VISIBILITY” which is required in any IT shop.

To discuss this topic in detail and to bring life to the concept of FULL STACK VISIBILITY, joining Sunny and me will be Craig Lee and Brock Peterson from Blue Medora.
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#vROps hidden gem – XML Builder

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If you spend a good amount of time in vROps either at your place of work or with customers (like me) you will likely  have had to create some custom XML (metric configuration) for custom dashboards.

In the past you would either use the sample/examples to get them started and then go and find the specific metric names while, this was usually quite time consuming.

In recent versions of vROps however, VMware have introduced a “builder” to help you properly format and slect the corect adapters/adapterkinds and metrics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How awesome and useful is that?

Happy building!

#vROps Webinar Series 2017 – Part 1 – What’s New with vROps 6.5

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Time to share the recording of the first episode of the vROps Webinar Series 2017. This time around, Sunny and I spoke about the latest release of vRealize Operations Manager. We spoke about almost all the new features which were introduced with this version and went into some of them in detail. Like always we rounded up the session with Live Demo of the new features for our audiences.

We introduced a feedback form which can be used to provide your feedback in general and also request topics on which you would want us to focus this year.

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