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Tutorial: Building Custom Dashboards in vCOps
This post is a semi-detailed tutorial on building your own dashboard using out-of-the-box widgets in VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise. The information presented is based on how I’ve been using...
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Deleting Stale VM Resources in vCOps
EMC just held EMC World 2012 and we had a lot of really cool stuff going on behind the scenes in order to make the Hands On Labs happen. For the most part the whole environment was run off of standard...
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VMware vCOps: Data Visualization at Scale
If you’re like me then you probably noticed the appealing methods at which VMware’s vCenter Operations displays data. The very first thing that stuck out to me was how it was able to aesthetically...
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Unofficial VMware vCenter Operations Powershell Module
As you’ve seen in my posts I have documented the usage of vCenter Operations as a killer performance management solution. One of the things that I would fault it for in the short term is the lack of...
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End-to-End VDI Monitoring with vCOps and EMC
If you haven’t heard yet vCenter Operations rocks! EMC has been doing a lot of work in creating a standard integration framework and building plugins that use this framework in order to feed vCOps more...
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The vCOps Browser War–Chrome Wins
This is going to be a short post about the features that Chrome has that make it the browser of choice, in my humble opinion, for VMware vCOps (if the browser is how you access vCOps). 1. Speed In...
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Integrating Avamar VM Image Backup Reporting with VMware vCenter Operations
Have you ever wondered how your backups affect performance and other things in your environment? Are you used to manually hunting and pecking for this information? Shouldn’t an operator know right...
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This post involves integrating Avamar VM backup statistics directly with other VM statistics while leveraging deep analytics of vCenter Operations to help manage image based backups (see Chad’s videos...
View ArticleUnofficial vCenter Operations for PowerCLI update!
This is going to be a quick update relating to the vCOps for PowerCLI. In the past few months I have added a few capabilities to module. Easy assessment of pre-defined metrics vCOps resource lookup...
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