This would have been a long long time since I'm writing this blog post and a lot has happened in the last few years. I changed my role within VMware (India) and moved into a different team, the entire world was hit by the pandemic and finally, I left VMware and moved to a different... Continue Reading →
With this blog we have come to the final pillar of Self Driving Data center operations which is Intelligent Remediation. In case if you haven't read my earlier blog posts i.e. Part 01 & Part 02 of self driving data center operations, I'll highly recommend you to please go through it so that you can relate... Continue Reading →
In my last blog I had discussed about how Continuous Performance Optimization pillar has been tightly integrated within vROps 7.0 If you have't yet read my earlier blog, I'll request you to please browse the link to read it so that while I start my discussions onward in this blog you can relate to it.... Continue Reading →
Ever since we hear this term Self-driven Car we develop this notion of a vehicle which has the built-in intelligence to take decision while moving on the road. There has always been approach in software industry to bring similar kind of intelligence in the data center where it is aware of the problems and is... Continue Reading →
Once a customer asked me we have vROps to monitor our infrastructure but when it comes network devices or network flow between virtual machine how can we monitor that..?? This question is pretty valid for almost all environment because with more and more workload being offloaded to virtual environment it becomes utmost important to make... Continue Reading →
There are plenty of misconceptions while moving the workload from Physical to Virtual world. Customer sometimes assume that while virtualizing their infrastructure concepts application behavior may change - which is not the real case. Recently I was working on one engagement with one of VMware's large customer and they are planning to virtualize few core... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year I wrote a blog on VMware & AWS initial service offerings and it was well received by the community. Now that idea has matured in the form of a GA product and with VMWorld 2017 VMware will be starting this offer for customers. So let's discuss a little bit on what will... Continue Reading →
Last month VMware has finally released vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist exam (2VB-602). Going by the quote "VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist is a technical professional who plans, manages and helps scale software-defined data center (SDDC) and multi-cloud environments through unified monitoring, automated performance management, cloud planning and capacity optimization. The badge holder helps organizations streamline and... Continue Reading →
Recently I was approached by my customer where they wanted to monitor their existing AIX server via vROps. Since vROps claims to monitor any environment as long as it is supported within the matrix so I asked customer about their end goal as what are they looking to monitor from their AIX platform. The outcome... Continue Reading →
Recently there was a request from one of customer to have some mechanism to capture idle VM information from their infrastructure. However this information is part of Efficiency tab of vROps but there are some points which needs to be considered before coming to conclusion. Ideally Efficiency tab calculates average utilization of resources based upon... Continue Reading →
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