Management is always worrying about infrastructure uptime. They usually want to know if there were any unplanned outages in the last week? What about the past 30/60/90 days? And if there were any outages, what caused it? To answer these questions I have created the…
This is a must-have dashboard for those who wish to monitor vCenter Appliance partition disk space usage and vROPs disk space usage filling up as well. Both are critical as it can lead to an outage on both products. This dashboard covers the following.
Are my…
Now that remote work is at an all-time high, monitoring and automating tools are now needed more than ever. Luckily vROPS is a superb automating and monitoring tool. Yes, vROPS is an automating tool. In this post I will show you features that makes vROPS…
In my 7+ Years working for VMware and doing vROPS for almost every industry out there, I get tons of vROPS questions and a lot of the questions obviously gets repeated. In this post I will answer some of the most common questions, but to…
This is for Managers who would like to know how many average VMs have we grown each month? How much have we grown in the past 6-months? In this guide I will show you how to use Expressions to formulate these calculations. …
In this guide I will walk you though how to add extra fields to an alert. For example, if a VM has disk latency, the alert doesn’t show which datastore the VM is on. This can be quite inconvenient if the alert is…
On January 14th 2020 Microsoft will be officially ending its support for Windows 2008 Servers. In this post I will share you an awesome dashboard that will instantly check for how many servers that are running version 2008 and below. Below is a handy user…
In this post I will show you how to use the Instance Breakdown feature to get more granular detailed metrics. For example, out of the box it is easy to see the overall CPU usage % from a VM. However, what if you…
Has your manager ever ask how much capacity is being used in a particular vCenter or your entire environment? This dashboard is now upgraded to include all this information and more. The dashboard shows complete inventory of your environment (vCenter, Hosts, Clustes, VMs, etc), how…
Announced in November 2018, the External Platform Services Controller (PSC) is being deprecated. If you are running vSphere 6.7 or vSphere 6.5 Update 2, you can now enjoy the benefits of using embedded PSC deployments without the hassle and complexity of…
