As you know, vROps is a great tool for monitoring the virtual environment, but it can also monitor the health of our hardware. vRealize Operation creates alerts and displays them with details, but to see them, we need to log in to vROps. What if you could get such alerts on your mobile phone? Today…
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vRealize Operations 8.6.3 Released
On March 28th VMware released a maintenance upgrade for vRealize Operations. This upgrade resolves a few important security and functionality issues identified in the product. For more details, see KB 88081. What is new? Metrics and Properties Modifications The following KB article describes all the metrics and properties that have been modified in vRealize Operations 8.6.3:…
Read moreHow to add another node or remove node from vRealize Operations
In vRealize Operations, you can add additional nodes to expand your cluster as well as you can remove nodes if you decommission the site. You can add a data node ( replica for master or data node) or remote collectors. To add a node please follow the instructions in this video: If you need to…
Read moreWorkaround instructions to address CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046 in vRealize Operations 8.x
This is most up-to-date document on how to remediate CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. On 15th of December 2021 VMware added workaround steps related to CVE-2021-45046. I will show you how to apply workaround. Please remember this is temporary solution as we are waiting for patch from VMware. RUN LIST: Log into the vRealize Operations Manager Admin…
Read moreWaiting time is over! Here comes vRealize True Visibility!
During VMworld it was announced that some pretty significant changes for vRealize True Visibility were “coming soon”. I am happy to announce that waiting time is over and as of 11 of November all 19 storage and compute management packs are available for ALL customers with vRealize Operations. Users are entitled to all packs listed…
Read moreHow to automate snapshot deletion with vROps 8.6
In this video I will show you how to leverage automation introduced in the vRealize Operations 8.6 We all know that snapshots can grow very quickly, hence in our best interest, as admins, is to make sure VMs are not running on snapshots longer than a few (the less the better) days. Of course, we…
Read moreHow to check if VMs are running snapshots using vROps 8.6
We all know that snapshots can grow very quickly, hence in our best interest, as admins, is to make sure VMs are not running on snapshots longer than a few (the less the better) days. Of course, we can run quick PowerShell code to check our inventory, but if you like me like visual content,…
Read morevRealize Operations 8.6 has been released!
I just received security announcement from VMware about LOW severity VMSA-2021-0021 – VMware vRealize Operations Manager update addresses SSRF Vulnerability (CVE-2021-22033). Checking on solution, I found out that fixed version is 8.6 The 8.6 has been released today on 12th of October and I just released video on my YouTube channel where I said it…
Read morevRealize Operations 8.6 – What’s New?
During VMworld2021 VMware announced vRealize Operations 8.6 which will provide a lot of new features and capabilities. We can expect enhanced integration between vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation, an exciting new user interface for smoother navigation, new public cloud integrations and many more like support for defining custom email notices within the user interface or…
Read morevRealize Operations Manager (vROps) Architecture
In this tutorial we will have a look at the vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) Architecture. I will be talking about: NODEs How do they work Architecture of Nodes What is High availability HA and Continuous Availability CA If you want to chat with me please use Twitter: @AngrySysOps Visit my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/AngrySysOps Read my…
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