The purpose of this dashboard is to capture all the important issues with Physical Host Hardware, host network availability, storage availability, and vSwitch configuration issues. Out of the box, vROPS captures all these issues using alerts definitions. This dashboard filters these alerts and turn the…
Out of the box, vROPS does an amazing job collecting Physical Host alerts. By default vROPS collects host fan sensor issues, battery sensor problems, voltage issues, system board issues, memory errors, hardware sensor issues, and more. The entire list is shown below. In this guide…
The Expression feature that is located in the View Widget will allow you to create a simple formula using the metric you have chosen. This is an excellent feature as it will allow us to make a metric a lot more useful and accurate. It…
I don’t share out any advance dashboards on my blog, mainly because all my advances ones I keep exclusively to my customers. I had to think a few times before I decided to share out this particular dashboard because of all the work I put…
Here is another hidden gem inside of vROPS that many of my customers don’t even know about until I show them: The What-If Analysis feature. This used to be called Projects in the older versions. This tool is great for planning an increase in workload…
Here is my latest enhancement of the Environment Growth Dashboard. This dashboard allows Engineers, Operators, and Managers to view growth for VMs, Hosts, Datastores, Capacity, and more in the last 6 months.
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I have updated the VM Troubleshooting Dashboard for up to Version 7.0. This is a must-have dashboard for any environment out there and people have told me it is way better than the out of the box one that comes with vROPS. Also make sure…
This is an updated version of my popular vROPS Datastore Troubleshooting Dashboard. I updated and enhanced my dashboard up to vROPS Version 7.0. Also check out my other dashboards on the Download Tab.
Quickly Troubleshoot Datastore Issues
Identify if there are any capacity bottlenecks
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Here is the latest Host Troubleshooting dashboard that was enhanced and fixed up to the latest version of vROPs 7.0. Besides fixing some of the metrics, I’ve enhanced almost every part of the dashboard. I will post the latest Datastore and VM Troubleshooting Dashboards soon.
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This is an updated guide on how to backup your customized work on vROPS version 7. I highly recommend to backup all your customized Dashboards, Reports, Alerts, etc. once every month. This is just an option to back up…
So in vROPS 6.7, a lot of the capacity settings are now no longer in Policies They are actually located in the Home page of vROPS. This guide will walk you through on where to find these important settings and how to use them.
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Custom groups in vROPS is necessary when we need to narrow things down to specific objects. For example in this guide I will show you how to create groups based on Powered on VMs, Datastores that are not Local, VMs in Folders, and VMs based…
Here is an updated version of the VM Troubleshooting Dashboard for those who updated to the latest version of vRealize Operatoins Manager 6.7. As some of you have already known, vRealize Operations Manager 6.7 has depreciated a lot of metrics and properties. As a result…
Another great feature of vROPS 6.7 is the ability for a scoreboard to receive an interaction from another widget without the use of an XML Metric Configuration file. Using Metric Configuration files is an advance skill, therefore bypassing this will allow anyone to use the…
vROPS 6.7 has a lot of enhance features, however in this article I will talk about a specific enhancement that will add a lot of value to reports and dashboards. Using the View Widget, you can now add color (yellow, orange, red) to a metric…
