Climbing Mountains & Building Clouds
This is a quick write up that outlines how to leverage vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) to monitor a website with an “HTTP Check” Method and the Endpoint Operations Management Agent (EPOPS). Below are two specific use cases that made this solution relevant for me. Use Case 1 – Monitoring my Blog with vROps A couple…Continue Reading “Monitoring my Blog & Printer w/vRealize Operations (vROps)”
One of my fellow TAMs (https://twitter.com/coolestITguy) recently reminded me of the VCSA Log Browser which is essentially a way to browse, search, & filter ESXi and VCSA logs directly from the vSphere Web Client. This plug-in has been around for a long time, but it is not enabled by default. If you find yourself digging…Continue Reading “How to Enable the VCSA Log Browser”
Yikes! It has been far too long since I wrote my last blog. I made a resolution to be more consistent in 2018… #newyearnewme. To kick off the year I wanted to do a quick review of what I have setup and configured for storage options in my lab… thus far. ? Local Storage You may…Continue Reading “Storage Review – NFS, iSCSI, VVols, OH MY!”
Recently one of my customers asked me how to go about monitoring Windows services with VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps). Nothing fancy… just CPU, Memory, Up/Down status. Luckily they were licensed for vROps Advanced which according to the version comparison chart provides “Monitoring of OS resources (CPU, disk, memory, network)”. This is really just a…Continue Reading “Monitoring Windows Services with VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps)”
Welcome to Part II of my Home Lab Introduction blog series where I will be focusing further on the installation/configuration of the VMware environment. If you missed Part I where I reviewed the lab from a hardware perspective it can be found here. I will not be covering the install of ESXi itself; however, I…Continue Reading “Home Lab Introduction – Part II – Install/Config”
Let me kick this off by saying that two months ago this home lab did not exist. Building out a lab (on physical hardware) was always something I wanted to do but the cost of it always kept me from pulling the trigger. I usually just ran nested VMware Fusion ESXi VMs on my laptop…Continue Reading “Home Lab Introduction – Part I – Hardware Overview”
Well I guess this makes it official. Tune in frequently for posts related to cloud computing technology (VMware mostly). I’ll keep this post short and sweet… I don’t want to burn myself out too quickly. Technology – I work as a VMware Technical Account Manager in the Sacramento, CA area and am faced almost daily…Continue Reading “Hello World!”