A first look at vRealize Content Management
In my last blogpost I wrote about managing your Puppet code using a Source Control repository. This post is an extension on that one where I will talk about managing your vRealize content with VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) plus bring it under source…
vROPS Tenant App for vCloud Director
Earlier today Erik pointed me to something I totally missed: vROPS Tenant App for VCD. It’s already out there for a month! You probably guessed what is is, since the name gives a lot of clues: It is a tenant app that you can use…
Monitoring Firewall Rules with vRealize Network Insight
vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) is most famous for its ability to help you with getting insight into your virtual traffic flows. Using that information you have all you need to configure micro-segmentation. vRNI is much more than that though and this post is the first…
vRealize Operations: Adding an OS Monitor Script
Besides monitoring Windows Services and the vCenter Server Appliance, you can also use vRealize Operations to monitor custom data through OS scripts. Attached to an Operating System object, an OS Script can output the health status and/or a metric for use in analysis. I will…
Monitor Windows services with the End-Point Operations Agent
A few weeks ago Erik published a article about monitoring the vCenter Server appliance with End-Point Operations Agent.vCenter Server appliance with End-Point Operations Agent. This article will be a follow up on the End-Point Operations Agent, how to monitor Windows services. There are two ways in…
vRealize Operations 6.2 released
Today, vRealize Operations (a.k.a. vROPS) version 6.2 was released. This has been a long awaited update. vRealize Operations 6.2 is the latest release of the VMware integrated vRealize Operations Suite. Updates cover all major areas of the product including installation, configuration, licensing, alerting, dashboards, reports,…
Installing the Linux agent for Log Insight
As I explained in an earlier post all systems push their data to the central server, or by an agent in the operating system. Just like the Windows agent you can download the Linux agent from the Log Insight interface. Go to the admin->Administration panel -> Agents. In…
Installing the Windows agent for Log Insight
Log Insight can collect data from various sources as I explained earlier. All systems push their data to the central server, or by an agent in the operating system. There are two agents available for deployment, a Linux agent and a Windows agent. Both agents…
Configuring Log Insight for vSphere Integration
In this article I will help you to set up your first source, vRealize Log Insight for vSphere integration. vRealize Log Insight can integrate with vSphere to automatically import events from vCenter server and logs from ESXi hosts. If you missed the first articles in the…
vRealize Log Insight quick interface Walkthrough
In the last post I described why log monitoring is important and what you can use to monitor your logfiles and how you can deploy vRealize Log Insight. In this post I will walk you through the interface. It will be a short post, since the…
Getting started with vRealize Log Insight
VMware has a lot of tools these days. From the tools for virtualization all kinds of workloads to managing all that in an automated manner. In that last category VMware also has a tool called vRealize Log Insight. vRealize Log Insight, together with vRealize Operations gives…
VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 6 and much much more
Last week VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 6. But that was not the only update that was released. There was a real wave of updates for a whole range of products. Here’s recap of the updates that were published. Sit tight because it’s a…
Integrating VMware NSX with VMware vRealize Log Insight
VMware vRealize Log Insight is a log analyser with capabilities to receive logs from regular syslog (so every device that can send syslog over the network) and from agents for Windows and Linux. Mostly every device can be configured to send logs to it and…
Cisco releases UCS Manager Management Pack for vRealize Operations
Earlier this week Cisco released version 1.0.1 of their management pack for UCS Manager for VMware’s vRealize Operations. Cisco UCS Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations helps vRO administrators to automate IT operations management, manage performance and gain visibility across both Cisco UCS physical infrastructure…