Everything you need to know about the vRealize Operations 8.0 release

The wait is over. vRealize Operations 8.0 is NOW Available. Here are my prescribed next steps:

1- See What's New - https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2019/10/whats-new-in-vrealize-operations-8-0-2.html

2- Read the release notes (PLEASE🙃) - https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/8.0/rn/vRealize-Operations-Manager-80.html

3- Download the bits from here - https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vrealize_operations/8_0

4- Ensure to run the Upgrade Assessment Tool, available on the download page:

      5- Check the compatibility with management packs you might have in your environment - https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=vrops

    

      6- Check product compatibility matrix (just in case) - https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php

      7- Good news – Most of the VMware solution packs that go with vROps are already released and here are the links:

Solution Name	Release Notes & Download Link
vRealize Operations Management Pack for CloudHealth by VMware	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vmware-vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-cloudhealth-by-vmware
vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-storage-devices
vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud on AWS	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vmware-vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-vmware-cloud-on-aws
vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX-T	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vmware-vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-nsx-t
vRealize Operations Management Pack for vCloud Director	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-vcloud-director
vRealize Operations Management Pack for Skyline	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vmware-vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-vmware-skyline
vRealize Operations Management Pack for Container Monitoring	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-container-monitoring
SDDC Health Monitoring Solution	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vmware-sddc-management-health-solution
vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX for vSphere	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-nsx-for-vsphere
vRealize Operations Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-vrealize-orchestrator
vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Identity Manager	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vmware-vrealize-operations-management-pack-for-vmware-identity-manager
vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vrops-federation-management-pack
vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Integrated OpenStack	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-openstack
vRealize Operations Management Pack for Cloud Provider Pod	https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vrealize-operations-manager-management-pack-for-vmware-cloud-provider-pod

Happy Installing/Upgrading.

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vRealize Operations Manager 6.2.1 is out. Go for it!

A few hours back VMware announced the release of vRealize Operations Manager 6.2.1. This is a maintenance release and is highly recommended for use cases such as:

1- Planning an upgrade to vROps 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2, instead plan for 6.2.1

2 - Having large vROps Cluster deployments with a number of nodes/remote collectors. You need this release for improved stability and performance.

Primarily, this release helps you with Upgrade Related Issues, Troubleshooting & Performance, all of which are pretty important to an installation of vRealize Operations Manager.

With a long list of resolved issues in the release notes, I am going ahead and giving this a shot today. Thanks and congratulations to VMware engineering for spinning this release out in such a short duration to ensure that vROps keeps doing all it does without any down times or performance issues.

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vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Released. Go get it!

I am glad to share that vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 is out today. I have been writing a series about this release of the operations management suite in a series here. The release will now allow me to take you deep into the great new features and the recommended best practices to design, deploy and use the solution for effective performance management and capacity planning for EVERYTHING in your datacenter.

Here is what the release notes say about the product:-

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 is the latest release of VMware's integrated operations suite, converging performance, capacity, and configuration management. This release introduces the following enhancements.

• Scale-Out Deployment Architecture
  This release provides distributed deployment with elastic scale and higher scalability.
• Unified User Interface
  This release introduces a single user interface to manage vSphere as well as non vSphere domains. You can create powerful, flexible custom dashboards enabling you to bring any information you want into the management console.
• Licensing Management in 6.0 
  vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 has an independent license-management GUI that provides enhanced administration of license keys specific to vRealize Operations. Customers can now deploy mixed editions in a single vRealize Operations 6.0 instance.
• Smart Alerts
  Smart alerts combine multiple symptoms to generate a single alert that focuses on the underlying issue with clear recommendations and option to take action for remediation.
• Enhanced Reporting
  Enhanced reporting provides several out-of-the-box reports with the ability to generate fully customizable reports.
• Capacity Planning and Project Management Capabilities
  New capacity planning and project management capabilities extend beyond vSphere and across physical and application level metrics. Flexible capacity models can be adjusted to meet different business needs.
• Custom Policies
  Custom policies can applied for specific workload types, applications or clusters enabling more advanced monitoring of performance, capacity and configuration standards.
• Automated Remediation of Problems
  Integrated action and remediation capabilities with the ability to apply actions according to the recommendation for the alerts.
• User Access Control Management
  Improved user access control, including granular role-based access control.
• Unified Storage Visibility
  New storage visibility shows the correlation between the application group and the storage infrastructure supporting it, including HBA's, Fabric and Arrays, along with the ability to trace operational issues all the way to storage.

Here are the links to the Product Documentation and Download.

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 | 9 DEC 2014  Product Download

Visit the vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Documentation Center to learn more about the product

New Features and Release Notes

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Release Notes

Compatibility and Configuration Limits

Hardware, Host Operating System, and Guest Operating System Compatibility Guides

VMware Product Interoperability Matrix

vRealize Operations Manager Product Documentation

vRealize Operations Manager Virtual Application Installation	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vRealize Operations Manager Linux and Windows Installation	html	pdf	epub	mobi
Connecting vRealize Operations Manager to Data Sources	html	pdf	epub	mobi
Configuring Users and Groups	html	pdf	epub	mobi
Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment	html	pdf	epub	mobi
Planning the Resources for Your Managed Environment	html	pdf	epub	mobi
Customizing How vRealize Operations Manager Displays Your Data	html	pdf	epub	mobi
Customizing How vRealize Operations Manager Monitors Your Environment	html	pdf	epub	mobi
Maintaining and Expanding vRealize Operations Manager	html	pdf	epub	mobi
Metric Definitions in vRealize Operations Manager	html	pdf	epub	mobi

vRealize Operations for Horizon Documentation

vRealize Operations for Horizon is compatible with VMware vRealize Operations Manager version 6.0.

vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon Installation	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon Administration	html	pdf	epub	mobi
vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon Security	html	pdf	epub	mobi

So go ahead, download your copy and start relishing the NextGen operations management solution for your Datacenter (Note: Not only VIRTUAL but PHYSICAL as well) :-)

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