vROPS 6 backup best practices, is live incremental backup possible?
We have a four node cluster, a master node and three data nodes, and we're looking at options to back it up. The only way I'm currently confident to back it up is to turn off the cluster, power off all...
View ArticleAlerts are not updating every 5 mins in vROPs, even few alerts are not...
We are using vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.0.2263110. We have configured required alerts but all alerts are not updating every 5 mins. Some of them are not updating from days.
View ArticleCluster going offline takes too much time
Hi everyone, I turn off the cluster in order to restart vRops but it's taking way too much time. The reason I want to restart is because the UI is so slow. Does any one had this issue before?What would...
View ArticleChanges to Stress aren’t saved/displayed
All,My changes to edits of a Stress are not being saved/displayed. When I select Analysis Stetting> Virtual Machine>Stress and make the following changes: Resource Demand...
View ArticleHow to convert a mathematical formula into vROPs super metric ?
Hi, I have a mathematical formula that my customer's SAN admin uses for calculating Avg latency across LUNs in a VNX storage pool. This is shown below:- LUN IOPS Avg_Response1...
View ArticlevROPS Operating System / Remote Service Monitoring - How to enable
How do I enable / make use of the new hyperic functionality in vROPS 6.1?
View ArticleEnd points monitoring with vROPs
Hi everyone, We have installed the MP Operating Systems / Remote Service Monitoring, but in fact it has no object in the inventory: I would like to know; how to enable it ?Will this MP allow us to...
View ArticleVrops Use cases
Hello everyone, I'm looking for use cases of vRealize Operations Manager examples for using dashboards and reports. I want to know an example of a problem in the infrastructure that leads us to look...
View ArticlevRops indicating that an application version is obsolete
Hello every one, I want to check please if it is possible to know that an application (installed on a VM) has an obsolete version (in the same way we can easily know that VM tools is old in a VM)? Is...
View ArticleMaintenance Schedules and Active Policies
Hello All! Please bear w/ me as I try to explain this: Environment: 1 Cluster multiple hosts, we have backup windows nightly from 6p-1a and weekend full's kick off Friday 6pm last till Sunday 3am. I'm...
View ArticleHost is not in MM in VC. But in vRops alert displaying as MM
Hello Friends, In my environment few hosts are not in MM. All VM's are working fine in respective hosts. When i check those hosts in vRops Administration - Inventory Explorer it's showingData...
View ArticleAutomatic closure of faulty events
Hi All,I have plenty of events/alerts which have been reported to vRealize Operation Manager from vCenter regarding faulty hardware/network port problems.Is there any way to force those alerts to close...
View ArticlevCPU Utilization
Hi,i am reading the VMware Performance and Capacity Management book from Iwan.In one part of the book, he is creating a line chart with cpu information from a vm with multiple vcpu´s.In that sparkline,...
View ArticleConvert mathematical formula to vROPs super metric ?
Hi, I have a mathematical formula that my customer's SAN admin uses for calculating Avg latency across LUNs in a VNX storage pool. This is shown below:- LUN IOPS Avg_Response1...
View ArticleVBlock name associated with a datastore
Good Day All.For one of the reports, we need to display vblock name associated with a datastore. The name of Vblock is not readily available under property list and our thought was to add a second data...
View ArticleAdding a new Stress to vSOM Policy
All,Is it possible to create a new Stress in a vSOM Policy? Looking at Stress (Policies>Policy Library>Edit>Analysis Settings>vCenter Adapter – Virtual Machine>Stress), I can make...
View ArticlevROps - Monitoring Apache HTTPD server-status URL using EP Ops agent
Hi All, Has anyone successfully configured the EP Ops agent to monitor the Apache server-status URL? When using Hyperic, it was possible to configure monitoring via 127.0.0.1/server-status. However,...
View ArticlevROps View / Dashboard / Report to identify VMs without EP Ops Agent installed
Hi All, Has anyone created a view, dashboard or report to generate a list of VMs without EP Ops agent installed? If so, can you explain how you created it?I'd like to ensure that our entire estate is...
View ArticleIs there api for getting source-machines from VRA or VCO.
Is there away to get a list of source machines that are data collected from an endpoint using rest api. I have searched the docs and apis but keep coming up empty.
View ArticleAllocation Based policy does not show actual powered on vcpu usage
It seems even though a policy is configured with Allocation only the capacity remaining analysis page still uses analytics to calculate the used amount. I thought allocation was based purely on the...
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