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vRealize Suite 2019 – Easy Installer

October 18, 2019 Gary VMware

VMware has just announced the latest release of the vRealize Suite (2019) and with it comes vRA 8.0, vRLI 8.0, vROps 8.0 and vRSLCM 8.0. So with the exciting announcements out of the way, let’s get these installed!

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vROps – Alerts and Alarms Count

October 11, 2019 Gary VMware

vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) stores all symptoms and alerts in an internal database where they are called Alerts and Alarms. This dahsboard provides a simple way to monitor the alerts and alarms count.

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Export NSX DFW Rules using vRO

October 10, 2019 Gary VMware

Many organisations are seeing the value of NSX-v in SDDC environments, however there is no easy way to export the NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules from NSX to a CSV file. These vRO workflows / package will provide everything you need.

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vRA 7.x Reclamation Machine Usage Thresholds

September 27, 2019 Gary VMware

In vRA 7.x, you can discover Deployments for reclamation & the Advanced Search feature can search for VMs with Low or High CPU usage along with several other options. But what are the actual thresholds that vRA uses with these metrics?

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Extracting NSX DFW Rule Hit Counts

August 3, 2019 Gary VMware

With the introduction of NSX-v 6.4.2, NSX will now log the firewall rule hit count for each firewall rule in the DFW. To get the rule hit count for all rules in the environment, check out the attached vRO workflow / package.

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File Shares / SMB Not Working

February 22, 2019 Gary Microsoft

A strange issue occasionally occurs on some servers where random network dropouts occur while accessing any file share (ie. \\servername\c$). I recently came across this issue again and found this fantastic post on the technet forums.

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vROps Memory Metric Collection Changes in 6.7 & 7.0+

February 14, 2019 Gary VMware

With vROps prior to 6.7, Memory metrics have caused confusion when comparing the memory metrics generated from vSphere to the metrics generated from the Ep Ops management agent installed on the guest OS.

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vROps Memory Metrics – Prior to vROps 6.7+

February 14, 2019 Gary VMware

Memory metrics in vROps have caused many customers confusion and I hope this post will explain the different metrics available and why the values don’t necessarily reflect what you might think.

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Downgrade / Remove vRA License

January 12, 2019 Gary VMware

I recently had the requirement to remove an existing vRealize Suite Enterprise key from vRealize Automation 7.3.1 and replace it with a vRealize Suite Advanced key. To replace the license you must do the following.

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vRA / vRO – Add an Azure connection

January 8, 2019 Gary VMware

Integrating vRA / vRO is available out-of-the-box with vRA 7.2 and newer and has been well documented by others, however I faced several issues and bugs which I have documented.

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