tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470609944191292872026-03-13T23:20:41.524-07:00Expressing Virtual Experiences!Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-56429921553306322612022-05-27T14:31:00.002-07:002022-05-27T14:31:44.727-07:00

 Hello Readers,I meant to write this post for a long time, but guess what, the last year has been a roller coaster. Well, to keep it short and simple, I have migrated all my posts to a new domain named sunnydua.com. This is where I will continue to write about Technology, Product and Future interests. vXpress will continue to live on with all the content I have written and all my

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Hope you and your loved ones are safe during these times. If you are following me on twitter, you would have noticed that with my recent tweets, webinars, and blog posts, I have been heavily involved in onboarding and unlocking key use cases that can help our customers operationalize Kubernetes with vRealize Operations. I was recently curating all the community resources that are available around

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-16404225318684694902020-06-01T21:22:00.000-07:002020-06-01T21:22:11.557-07:00

OverviewWhether it is containers or virtual machines, the end goal of organizations is to have a highly available, reliable and a scalable platform to run their business applications. With vSphere 7.0, VMware provides a unified platform to run your applications, by leveraging vSphere with Kubernetes.In a previous post, we shared how vRealize Operations 8.1 & vRealize Operations Cloud can

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About vRealize Operations Cloud: Along with vRealize Operations 8.1, VMware just made the vRealize Operations Cloud service go live. VMware vRealize Operations Cloud is a cloud-delivered service that allows a customer’s infrastructure and operations teams to manage the enterprise’s VMware Cloud environment, whether in the customer’s own on-premises software-defined data center (“SDDC”) or

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VMware just announced the General Availability of vRealize Operations 8.1. I wanted to quickly share the high-level capabilities that are coming with this release. These are based on key themes of VMware's Cloud Operations vision.  vRealize Operations Manager 8.1 delivers new and enhanced capabilities for self-driving operations to help customers optimize, plan, and scale VMware Cloud,

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-60064972472155893562019-10-28T17:39:00.000-07:002019-10-28T17:41:06.081-07:00

I have seen a number of asks for dashboards that can help with monitoring specific use cases related to VMware Cloud on AWS. With this post, I will share four such dashboards that I have been working on pertaining to VMC monitoring use cases. Special thanks to William Lam for guiding me with the best practices related to VMC monitoring. All those best practices were considered while creating

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The wait is over. vRealize Operations 8.0 is NOW Available. Here are my prescribed next steps: 1- See What's New - https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/10/whats-new-in-vrealize-operations-8-0-2.html 2- Read the release notes (PLEASE🙃) - https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/8.0/rn/vRealize-Operations-Manager-80.html 3- Download the bits from here - https://

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-80957653506594959402019-10-08T13:45:00.001-07:002019-10-08T13:45:08.213-07:00

With this post, I wanted to share a quick tip which one should follow while adding a vCenter Server running in VMware Cloud on AWS. With vRealize Operations, you can simply point to a VMC based vCenter and gather both vCenter and vSAN metrics from a VMC vCenter. While adding the endpoint is an extremely simple task in vROps, for VMC, currently, you have to take an extra step to ensure that the

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-63047583444282144372019-10-04T01:23:00.000-07:002019-10-04T01:23:12.533-07:00

While creating custom dashboards in vRealize Operations, there are times when you want to use the same widget type to be re-used within a dashboard multiple times. At the same time, you might want to re-use some of the widgets which you might like in the out of box dashboards and want to leverage the same to create your own dashboards. In the past, you would do this by going through a lot of

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vSAN day 2 operations are increasingly becoming mainstream in vRealize Operations. With the last release of vRealize Operations 7.5, while vROps added some cool capabilities around workload balancing using workload optimization across multiple vSAN clusters, there were some key metrics which were added to help vSAN administrators. Some of the key metrics that are available today from a

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-2582898341600988602019-05-11T19:53:00.000-07:002019-05-11T19:54:17.214-07:00

VMware Cloud on AWS is one of the most talked about innovations and partnerships between VMware and AWS Cloud. With VMware’s SDDC stack fully deployed on AWS, we are delivering on the promise to VMware customers to get the economies of the public cloud without re-writing your existing applications.  While talking to most of the customers who are leveraging VMware Cloud

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With vRealize Operations 7.0, VMware introduced a very simple yet powerful feature which would allow you to reset the built-in admin password of your vRealize Operations instance using recovery settings. I believe this is an extremely useful feature, as I have seen numerous deployments where admins have forgotten the admin password and are forced to login through the root account and run

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-23038453558772120712019-03-18T00:59:00.001-07:002019-03-18T00:59:26.794-07:00

I have been several times about this and hence I thought I would quickly blog about this. With vRealize Operations, the out of the box content owned by VMware usually gets a refresh with each release. If you wish to get the new updated content, then you can leverage the reset out of box option during upgrade. I wrote about this more than 3 years ago here and this is still relevant. I have

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-35264914466826461422019-02-05T17:49:00.002-08:002019-02-05T17:49:25.206-08:00

This has come up in a number of discussions with customers and a few VMware field employees and hence I wanted to blog about this and use this as a standard answer going foward :-) Use Case - An administrator wants to disable alerts on a ESXi host which has been put into maintenance mode in vCenter. This is to avoid any alerts on this ESXi hosts inside of vROps, while the admin wants to

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-87909601252494228522018-10-15T08:00:00.000-07:002018-10-15T08:00:01.938-07:00

There have been several amazing changes in the realm of dashboard management in vRealize Operations 7.0. The very first one in my list of favorites is the ability to transfer dashboard ownership. In the previous releases of vRealize Operations, one can create and share dashboards, however if a user must be removed from vRealize Operations for any reason (leaving the organization or

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-28354507077289052392018-10-10T17:34:00.001-07:002018-10-10T17:34:55.659-07:00

One of the less known feature of vRealize Operations is to visualize data patterns and compare them against previous time periods of same interval. This feature helps you to easily detect changes in behavior of a workload a.k.a anomalies which could be a result of an event leading to an underlying performance problem. Let's explain this with an example. I am currently looking at the CPU Usage

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-69681790763213032822018-10-07T13:31:00.003-07:002018-10-07T17:33:49.826-07:00

One of the most 💖loved💖feature of vRealize Operations 7.0 has been the new capability of sharing dashboards with URL. The following blogpost explains the options around dashboard sharing. In this post, I wanted to share a quick example on how you can use the embed feature of dashboard sharing. Use Case - The use case is pretty obvious. In organizations where vRealize Operations

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-65938285481717763502018-08-06T09:21:00.001-07:002018-08-06T09:21:51.605-07:00

With the release of vRealize Operation 6.7, one of the little less known feature around alerting capabilities is the exclusion of filesystem partitions from symptoms. Imagine you have a fleet of Windows of Linux Virtual Machines where you want to monitor the file system usage of the various logical partitions created by the guest operating system. In most of the cases, you don't care about

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-86219790346393444302018-07-20T15:33:00.000-07:002018-07-20T15:33:12.177-07:00

As I type this I feel the guilt of not being able to blog for some time now. As most of you know, I have moved into the Product Management role for vRealize Operations, the role has sucked me into the wave of continuos enhancements which we are doing into the product. A tremendous amount of time and effort went into closing vRealize Operations 6.6 and 6.6.1 and planning, implementing and

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-24275431249437485142018-04-13T14:05:00.000-07:002018-04-13T14:05:50.094-07:00

vRealize Operations 6.7 comes with a new functionality which allows you to reduce the number of nodes in your vRealize Operations cluster. This feature of vRealize Operations is to meet the following use cases: 1. Scale up your vRealize Operations nodes to extra-large nodes - If you wish to scale down the number of nodes in the cluster and scale them up to extra-large configuration 2.

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-69745117472147076882018-04-12T23:21:00.002-07:002018-04-12T23:21:21.074-07:00

With the recent release of vRealize Operations 6.7, one of a most awaited feature which has been re-introduced is the concept of themes. In the past releases of vROps, you could change the entire user interface into a Dark mode. This feature has been re-introduced and can be set by a user through preferences. To enable the dark theme: a) Login to vRealize Operations. b) Click on the

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-21755265022397724072017-11-11T16:55:00.001-08:002017-11-11T16:56:23.251-08:00

In my previous post, we discussed the design, architecture, installation and configuration of the federation MP. In the second part, I will share the dashboards available with this management pack. These dashboards are targeted towards the Operations, Capacity and Compliance personas. To get more details about this management pack click here. Share and Spread the

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VMware recently released the vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack. Since I see a number of folks asking about the new management pack, I thought it would be useful to have a video sries which can help you understand the use cases behind the vROps Federation Management Pack. This short video series will cover a number of important topics about the vRealze Operations Fedration

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007454899067884004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47060994419129287.post-50822304844915422262017-10-11T13:07:00.003-07:002017-10-11T13:07:52.882-07:00

We just announced the the Federation Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager. What is the Federation Management Pack: The vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack helps you to unify your multi-site vRealize operations deployment into a single pane of glass. This solution allows you to instantiate a deployment of vRealize Operations Manager with the capability of receiving

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While we all know that, automating day to day operations tasks is becoming the choice of an IT organization, it is hard for them to find a solution which can completely understand their business policies and provide them the efficiency they need from automating simple operational tasks. Based on our research, we found that, one of the most time consuming activity done by an Virtual

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