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vROPS Tenant App for vCloud Director

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

Earlier today Erik pointed me to something I totally missed: vROPS Tenant App for VCD. It’s already out there for a month!

Getting started with vRealize Log Insight

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

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 you everything you need to monitor and troubleshoot your environment. I think that Log Insight is one of the most undervalued tools in a VMware environment.

MOM optimization

Tue, 29 May 2007 22:00:00 +0000

In my ever continuing quest to reduce the number of (unwanted) events in our MOM and reporting database I turned my attention to the events that are entered in the database.

From time to time I’m running some SQL queries on the MOM reporting database to check which servers are the top event generators.
I know there are some nice reports for it, but the SQL approach gives me some extra info I don’t get when running the reports.

MOM and SMS reporting

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:00:00 +0000

While looking for some information on reporting for MOM 2005 I found the following Microsoft presentation.

It gives a quick insight in reporting for SMS 2003 and MOM 2005.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/4/9/2499f950-b208-4770-8bee-2adf80d7118f/Reporting-v1.ppt