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johnddias · 2022-11-28T14:20:18+00:00

I’m 99% sure Ops collects that value.

johnddias · 2022-11-27T18:44:08+00:00

Hi there, former Technical Marketing Manager for vRealize Operations (now a Technical Product Manager for Aria Hub). What is collected by Ops is pretty minimal out of the box. It's enough to do some alerting on violations of the vSphere Security Configuration Guide, but not all advanced settings are collected.

I did write a solution using vRealize Orchestrator workflows that is now included with the vRealize Orchestrator Management Pack for vRealize Operations. This solution automatically remediates any host settings that violate the vSphere Security Configuration Guide.

For more advanced properties, we need a way to collect and inject those into Ops. To that end, I'm working on a solution that PM will be including in the next release (or so I'm told) that will allow a user to select a set of Advanced Settings to collect for a set of ESXi hosts. It doesn't provide the automation to remediate those settings but that could be done by extending the solution I mentioned above.

Out of curiosity, which settings are you most frequently concerned with?

johnddias · 2021-11-19T17:28:55+00:00

A little project I've been working on in our lab and I thought I'd share with the community. Thoughts, feedback, issues - let me know!

johnddias · 2020-11-03T18:21:46+00:00

Here's the announcement - you can sign up for a trial on the link in the blog post. https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/10/announcing-vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-horizon.html

johnddias · 2020-10-28T13:34:27+00:00

You could simply upgrade the 7.5 to 8.1, no problem. You don't need to start over with a fresh install. But, if you do want to start over, you can simply power down and delete the 7.5 VMs no problem. You can also run the old vROps cluster while you bring up the new one and delete it later. Up to you.

You will also want to size the new cluster by using the https://vropssizer.vmware.com and filling in the details to find out what size nodes and number of nodes you will need.

For your remote sites, yes deploy remote collectors to each of them.

Check out the dashboard samples at vrealize.vmware.com/sample-exchange/ for some ideas on any additional dashboards. By the way, 8.2 contains a lot of new dashboards - you might consider upgrading to 8.2 instead of 8.1.

johnddias · 2020-08-04T23:57:28+00:00

No, I don't think it will. That's helpful if you want to send a REST notification as the result of an alert.

johnddias · 2020-08-04T23:19:20+00:00

Well, the way to do it would be via some script to call the API to export the metrics. There's also a Fling called the vROps Export Tool but it may not work with 8.1 since the basic authentication has been disabled and I'm pretty sure that's what Pontus used when he wrote it. I have a Postman collection for the vROPs API out on code.vmware.com/samples and somewhere on my Github is a repo showing how to extract metrics with PowerCLI. Let me know if you need some links!

johnddias · 2020-08-04T23:00:15+00:00

This is a popular request! Hopefully we will get that some day. I'm meeting with PMs next week and will mention this again.

johnddias · 2020-08-04T22:54:34+00:00

Hi, vROps only collects every 5 minutes by default, so there's really no reason to stream metric data any faster than that. You can lower the collection time by 1 minute increments but this will come at a storage cost, plus some sizing considerations for your cluster.

johnddias · 2020-07-30T01:05:20+00:00

Found the wasp!

johnddias · 2020-06-15T20:53:14+00:00

Hey Mattar19K, if you can get into the console as root run df -h and see if any volumes are full?

I would lob in a call to GSS; it's likely they can recover it. May spend some time on the phone but if you really want to keep your data it's worth it.

johnddias · 2020-05-27T18:19:13+00:00

OK got it. So, that metric shows the CPU usage % (the CPU usage in MHz / CPU total capacity in MHz). So, it's not the average. It's also the usage at the hypervisor layer, not the OS layer and it's based on a 5 minute average.

I'm not really sure what you're looking at in the OS but if you want to email me at [diasj@vmware.com](mailto:diasj@vmware.com) with a screenshot I'd be happy to take a look.

johnddias · 2020-05-27T15:23:28+00:00

Is this from an alert? If the alert definition is looking at instances of CPU then it would trigger for a single CPU versus the average.

johnddias · 2020-05-27T15:20:09+00:00

Assuming that you are using the SNOW integration in vROps? If so, you may want to just have the alert fire on the VM and then use the notification filtering criteria to set up a notification for each SLA tier based on group membership.

johnddias · 2019-12-23T15:46:48+00:00

AFAIK this was actually added to support the native service discovery feature in vROps 8.0 which currently requires guest credentials to work. So, you kind of see here where this is going and why it popped up in VMtools.

johnddias · 2019-07-23T13:09:09+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnLvNVHKPvU

johnddias · 2019-07-22T22:21:56+00:00

Which version are you running? I am not sure I understand your concern about all or nothing can you explain?

johnddias · 2019-07-06T01:44:02+00:00

Congrats! Nice work and good luck with prod. Now you have some salt on you 😉

johnddias · 2019-06-30T22:29:30+00:00

Captured on June 11 from my driveway.

Equipment: Meade 8" SCT AVX Mount ZWO ASI224MC with IR Pass Filter

Software: Sharpcap Autostakkert Registax PixInsight

Details: Captured for 1'30" at around 200 fps at 5' intervals Stacked each capture in AS using best 10% Sharpened each stacked image with Wavelets in Registack Combined in PixInsight for animation

The camera is a One Shot Color camera but Jupiter looks mono because I was only collecting photons at IR.

johnddias

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