SSH into the vROPs machine and execute the following command. <br /> cat /etc/vmware/.buildInfo | grep RELEASENUMBER<br /> Output: <br /> root@vRealizeClusterNode [ ~ ]# cat /etc/vmware/.buildInfo | grep RELEASENUMBER<br /> RELEASENUMBER:8.1.0.15972145<br /> root@vRealizeClusterNode [ ~ …

With the release of vRealize Operations 6.7 VMware has introduced few updates to the REST APIs. Please find the details on the VMware Blog. What’s New in vRealize Operations 6.7 REST APIs

VMware Self-Driving Operations delivered by vRealize. VMware vRealize Operations 6.7 introduces several new and enhanced performance and capacity optimization capabilities to help customers adopt a ‘self-driving’ approach to operations management. VMware vRealize Operations delivers continuous performance optimization …

If you would like to manage your vROPs using Powershell the following module could be helpful. Quote: PowervROps is a module written for PowerShell that can be used to access various elements of the vRealize Operations Manager API via PowerShell functions. Link: https://github.com/andydvmware/PowervROps

Found a great blog post on how to monitor windows services with VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs). Link: Steve Tilkens Blog

During my research about best practices of setting up a vROPs environment I found the following document which provides a guideline for a reference vROPs architecture. “The vRealize Operations Manager Reference Architecture Guide provides recommendations for deployment topology, hardware requirements, and …

I found this awesome blog from Lan Nguyen Senior Consultant working at VMware. On his blog page he provides great vROPs dashboards which are extremely useful for the daily work of an VMware admin like the VM Troubleshooting and the vCenter Overview dashboard.

In my role as an onsite GSS Senior TSE at a large VMware customer in Germany I have to collect vROPs log bundles multiple times a week. As this is time consuming manual process I have created a script in my spare-time which fully automates this task. The script triggers the creation of a log bundle using the CASA API, …

If you would like to run a command remotely from the master node on all/only data/only remote collector nodes here is how you can do this. On the master create a SSH key. localhost:~ # ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/root/.ssh/id_rsa): Created directory …