vROps Webinar 2016 - Part 12 : What's New with vROps 6.4

Time to publish the recording for the 12th episode of the vROps Webinar Series. This time we did a what’s new with vRealize Operations 6.4 and the changes made to vRealize Operations 6.4as you will see there has been a lot packed into this recent release!

It has been an awesome 12 months working with Simon on this project and I am very glad to say we will be back next year (we will skip January and will return in February).

Happy Holidays from the team of vROps Webinar Series!

See you in 2017 with vROps Webinar Series 2017 with a brand new shiny logo!

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vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 12 : What's New with vROps 6.4

It's the time of the month when I would like to invite you to join the next episode of our year long vROps Webinar Series. As we move towards the closure of a fantastic year, we would like to take a zoom out view at the vRealize Operations Manager solution with a What's New Episode. We did a What's new with vRealize Operations 6.3 a couple of months back, however looking at some awesome changes made to vRealize Operations 6.4 it absolutely makes sense to go over the new goodies.

With this we will also come to a close of vROps Webinar Series 2016. Simon and myself have discussed about the runway of this series and I am excited to say that we will continue to produce more content going into the next year with vRealize Operations Webinar Series 2017. We believe that operations is ever evolving and hence the content associated to it would always continue to evolve. Hence, it only makes sense that continue to learn and share.

So without further a do, save the date in your calendars and join use for the next and final episode of vRealize Operations Webinar Series 2016.

Day & Date          : Monday, 19^th Dec 2016

Time                     : 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM  (PST)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                    : Part 12 : What's New with vROps 6.4

Speakers               : Simon Eady / Sunny Dua

WebEx Link          : Join WebEx meeting 

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vROps Webinar Series 2016 - Part 11 - Getting more out of vROps with PowerCLI

Time to publish the recording for the 11th episode of the vROps Webinar Series. This time we were joined by Vinith Menon who spoke about getting more from your vROps builds with PowerCLI. Vinith demonstrated the many useful ways of leveraging PowerCLI to manage your vROps environments and also communicate with the vROps API.

Huge thanks to Vinith Menon for presenting this excellent session.

So without further ado, here is the recording for this session:

vROps Webinar Series 2016 - Part 10 - A Deep Dive into vROps API

Time to publish the recording for the 10th episode of vROps Webinar Series. This time around we spoke about vRealize Operations Manager Resful API and how to use it. Post 20 minutes of slide-ware, I jumped into the lab and thanks to the demo god, we demonstrated a number of use cases and browsed through the documentation to make it easier for you to consume and use the same.

So without further ado, here is the recording for this session:

Note : It is recommended that you watch the video in HD quality for a great experience.

vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 10 : A Deep Dive into vROps API

The month has been extremely busy but we still want to continue with the momentum of webinar series getting to the business end of the year. This time around we will talk about vRealize Operations Manager API. API is your friend if you are trying to automate things which you would normally do on GUI. While GUI is a favorite of most, the geeks prefer the API since that helps them to programatically initiate tasks and go out for a coffee. By the time they are back from the LONG coffee break, the work is done :-)

This session would help you understand the API framework of vROps and as always we would jump into the lab to run a couple of scenarios which we would want to access through API and Geek Out!!

So without further a do, save the date in your calendars and join use for the next episode of vRealize Operations Webinar Series 2016.

Day & Date          : Friday, 28^th October 2016

Time                     : 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  (SGT)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                     : Part 10 : A Deep Dive into vROps API

Speakers               : Simon Eady / Sunny Dua

WebEx Link          : Join WebEx Meeting

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vROps Webinar 2016 - Part 8 : SDDC Operations with vROps Custom Dashboards

Blogging from VMworld is something else. With more than 25 bloggers sitting around me and generating a ton of content, I realized that I owe everyone the recording for the last session of the vROps Webinar series. With today, being the last day of the month, I wanted to make sure that I share this out with you folks out there to keep up with the practice.

Iwan Rahabok, did a great job on this one, talking about the the concept of SDDC operations and I would recommend this session to anyone who wants a jump-start into transforming their operations for SDDC. Quickly want to thank Iwan here for spending his valuable time with us and giving back to the community through this Webinar Series, Blogs, Books etc.

Once again I would like to thank my friend and partner in this project Simon as without him this would not be possible.

So without further ado, here is the recording for this session:

Note : It is recommended that you watch the video in HD quality for a great experience.

vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 8 : SDDC Operations with vROps Custom Dashboards

With VMworld around the corner and a lot of activities under my belt, I am extremely thankful to Iwan who proposed to take this informational series to the next level with our next session. This time around Iwan will lead the next session of the vROps Webinar Series while Simon and myself would support him to deliver some awesome content which Iwan has developed over the past few months.

Yes, this time around we will move our focus from vROps as a Product and related features to the concept of running your SDDC operations with vRealize Operations Dashboards. Just to clarify, this is not a session where we will teach you to create dashboards, but this is a session where we would share how a set of Customized Dashboards can help any organization's IT to get an insight into Storage, Network & Compute within your SDDC. While vROps is primarily a Performance Management and Capacity Planning tool, we will take you to the other important aspects as well such as Availability and Configuration. 

The session would start with discussing the concept first. Then you will see the concept turning into reality with the Custom Dashboards which we are going to showcase. Later, we will also share details on how to get all those dashboards into your environments with a few easy steps and hopefully this will either get you started on your vROps journey, or accelerate the journey for those who have already started and now looking to maximize their investments they made in to vROps. 

So join us for this edition and learn more about how to operationalize Software Defined Datacenter.

Day & Date          : Thursday, 25^th August 2016

Time                     : 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM  (SGT)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                     : Part 8 : SDDC Operations with vROps Custom Dashboards

Speakers               : Iwan Rahabok / Simon Eady / Sunny Dua

WebEx Link          : JoinWebExMeeting

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vROps Webinar 2016 - Part 7 : Working with Alerts & Symptoms

Time to release the recording for the latest part of the vROps Webinar Series.  We completed the 7th session of the series where we spoke about vRealize Operations Manager Alerts and Symptoms. 

Alerts as we all know would always remain the heart and soul for the operations teams to run the data centers, whether old school or the modern software defined.

In all cases you need alerts and more importantly you need meaningful and actionable alerts. In this part of the series, Simon and myself concentrated on making you aware of the alert constructs in vROps and as usual share experiences around how we help customers leverage the strong feature set of vROps to customize alerts and related symptoms, recommendations and actions to drastically reduce the Mean Time to Resolution of issues.

The journey so far has been fantastic and we would continue to add more content as we progress into the rest of the year. 

Stay tuned for more and enjoy this recording!!!

Till next time.. Have a Good One!!

vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 7 : Working with Alerts & Symptoms

Time to announce the next part of the year long webinar series on vRealize Operations Manager. With the last part of the series, we started focusing on content withing vROps. We will continue the trend and talk about a major function of vROps a.k.a Alerts. Alerts is the most used and most ab-used part of vROps, and with this session we want to give you some insights on the entire life-cycle of the alerting function of vROps.

We will touch upon, defining alerts, making sure they are actionable, understand how they are manged within vROps and also talk about the components which make up an alert. 

Day & Date          : Friday, 29^th July 2016

Time                     : 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  (SGT)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                     : Part 7 : Working with Alerts & Symptoms

Speakers               : Simon Eady / Sunny Dua

WebEx Link          : JoinWebEx Meeting

NOTE - Don't forget to mark your calendars by saving the Date!! Feel free to forward the invite to anyone who might be interested. It's open to all!!


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vROps Webinar Series decks available for download

I have got a number of requests from the readers and viewers of vXpress about the presentation decks used during the vROps Webinar Series. While a lot of people complimented about the video series, they wanted to share some of this knowledge by presenting this information to their colleagues in their circles.

I have collated all the decks and posted them to the links below. So go ahead and download them, use them or distribute them. Hope they help you with your journey of vRealize Operations Manager!!

Click here for vROps Webinar Series 2017

Click here for vROps Webinar Series 2016

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vROps Webinar 2016 - Part 6 : Understanding vROps SuperMetric & Views

Just completed the editing and upload of the the latest episode of the vROps Webinar Series 2016. With this we have completed 6 sessions this year. I am glad that we are able to dish out sessions every month and the interest level in these sessions just keeps on growing. Looking forward to deliver more content for the rest of the year.

Session Details:- In this episode, we talk about content within vROps. To begin with, we speak about Views and SuperMetrics. With this you will get a lot of insights into how you can use these features to build some useful, Reports and Dashboards within your vROps environments. 

Once again I would like to thank my friend and partner in this project Simon as without him this would not be possible.

So without further ado, here is the recording for this session:

Note : It is recommended that you watch the video in HD quality for a great experience.

vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 6 : Understanding vROps SuperMetric & Views

Time to announce the next part of the year long webinar series on vRealize Operations Manager. This time around, Simon and I will take you to the world of Content within vROps. I will be honest in saying that this is an ocean in itself and we might not be able to touch upon all the aspects of developing content within vROps. During this effort we plan to start with giving you an overview of the various options available to develop content within vROps.

Among all those options available, we would talk in detail about SuperMetrics and Views and would continue to talk about other option such as Dashboards and Reports in the upcoming sessions. We want to ensure that we go through all the options so that it can help you develop useful content within your environments.

Day & Date          : Monday, 27^th June 2016

Time                     : 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  (SGT)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                     : Part 6 : Understanding vROps SuperMetric & Views

Speakers               : Simon Eady / Sunny Dua

WebEx Link          : JoinWebEx Meeting

NOTE - Don't forget to mark your calendars by saving the Date!! Feel free to forward the invite to anyone who might be interested. It's open to all!!


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vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 5 - Design & Deployment Considerations

As promised, I am posting the recording for the 5th Session of vROps Webinar Series 2016. Both Simon and I successfully delivered the session on Design and Deployment considerations.

Session Details:- In this installment of the series, we discussed the steps and thought processes that should be used before and during the design and deployment of vRealize Operations Manager. During the session among other things we will cover the planning, core components, correct sizing, HA, clustering, DR and future growth.

Once again I would like to thank my friend and partner in this project Simon as without him this would not be possible.

So without further ado, here is the recording for this session:

Note : It is recommended that you watch the video in HD quality for a great experience.

vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 5 : Design & Deployment Considerations

Time to announce the next part of the year long webinar series on vRealize Operations Manager. This time around, Simon and I thought about discussing Architecture of vROps. To some, it might sound strange as for smaller deployments you might not have to worry about Sizing and Architecture much since it is pretty simple to install and configure a small or a medium node for a small shop. However as your monitoring needs grow and you start adding solutions for monitoring data sources beyond vSphere, you would need to think about scaling up or scaling out. As your monitoring environment weaves into your incident ticketing system, you would start to see the need to HA of vROps and as you have a DR strategy for your workloads, you will start thinking about DR for your operations tools as well. 

We have seen these questions and situations come up in many of our engagements and hence we thought that we should share some of our experience around this area. Below are the Webex Details:

Day & Date          : Friday, 27^th May 2016

Time                     : 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  (SGT)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                    : Part 5 : Design & Deployment Considerations

Speakers               : Simon Eady / Sunny Dua

WebEx Link          : Join WebEx meeting 

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vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 4 - Contention Based Performance & Capacity Management

As promised, I am posting the recording for the 4th Session of vROps Webinar Series 2016. We successfully delivered the session on Contention Based Performance & Capacity Management using vRealize Operations Manager!

Session Details:-

With this installment of the series, we have a new speaker who will entertain us :-) He is no stranger to the world of vRealize Operations Manager and has written a couple of books on vROps as well. I am referring to Iwan Rahabok who has been my partner in crime on all the vROps related work which we do, inside VMware or with the community. 

During this session we will help you understand a few basic concepts of using the right counters to monitor performance and capacity in your infrastructure. We will deep dive into the concept of the consumer and the provider layer and help you with solving issues which you might face as a provider of infrastructure to your business.

I also wanted to take this moment and thank Iwan & Simon for their continued support to this series.

Here is the recording for this session:::

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vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 4 : Contention Based Performance & Capacity Management!

Hope you are having fun with the vROps Webinar Series and learning in the process!! If you have not reviewed the old sessions then you should go ahead and check out this page where you have all the recordings in one place. 

With the next installment of this series, we have a new speaker who will entertain us :-) He is no stranger to the world of vRealize Operations Manager and has written a couple of books on vROps as well. I am referring to Iwan Rahabok who has been my partner in crime on all the vROps related work which we do, inside VMware or with the community. 

During this session we will help you understand a few basic concepts of using the right counters to monitor performance and capacity in your infrastructure. We will deep dive into the concept of the consumer and the provider layer and help you with solving issues which you might face as a provider of infrastructure to your business.

So come, join us and have some fun along with learning new things!!!

Day & Date          : Friday, 22^nd Apr 2016

Time                     : 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  (SGT)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                    : Part 4 : Contention Based Performance & Capacity Management!

Speakers               : Simon Eady / Sunny Dua / Iwan Rahabok

WebEx Link          : Join WebEx meeting 

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vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 3 - Capacity Planning De-Mystified!

As promised, I am posting the recording for the 3rd installment of vROps Webinar Series 2016. We successfully delivered the session on vROps Capacity Planning with some demo scenarios which might help you define your capacity monitoring goals.

Session Details:-

Capacity Planning Demystified!

Capacity Planning is an integral part of vRealize Operations Manager and through this session we want to de-mystify the concepts of Capacity Planning in vROps using features such as projects and the out-of-box capacity views. We look at defining the capacity planning policies based on the business requirements of an organization

I also wanted to take this moment and thank Simon Eady for co-hosting this session and Rawlinson Rivera to provide all the lab equipment required for live demonstrations...

Here is the recording for this session on Capacity Planning:::

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vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 3 : Capacity Planning De-Mystified!

vROps Webinar Series 2016 is back and as promised during the last session we will now deep-dive into vRealize Operations Manager Policies, specifically around the area of Capacity Planning.

Capacity Planning Demystified!

Capacity Planning is an integral part of vRealize Operations Manager and through this session we want to de-mystify the concepts of Capacity Planning in vROps using features such as projects and the out-of-box capacity views. We will also look at defining the capacity planning policies based on the business requirements of an organization & yeah this would be all done through LIVE DEMOS :-)

Day & Date          : Thursday, 24th Mar 2016

Time                     : 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM  (SGT)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                    : Part 3 : Capacity Planning De-Mystified!

Speakers               : Simon Eady & Sunny Dua

WebEx Link          : Join WebEx meeting 

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vROps Webinar 2016 : Part 2 : Understanding vROps Policies

I am glad to share that the vROps Webinar Series took a step ahead towards the year long commitment of providing quality content on vRealize Operations Manager. We successfully delivered the most awaited session on vROps Policies.

Please remember that this is an introductory session to policies and we intend to go deeper into policies in the next section in the month of March, where we deep dive into more details around capacity planning with vRealize Operations Manager. You will hear more about that as we progress into the next month.

I also wanted to take this moment and thank Simon Eady for co-hosting this session and Iwan Rahabok to provide all the lab equipment required for live demonstrations....

Here is the recording for this session on vROps Policies:::

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vROps Webinar 2016 - Announcing Part 2 : Understanding Policies.

vROps Webinar Series 2016 is back and as promised during the last session we would now take you to the world of vRealize Operations Policies. 

What is a Policy??

"A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. A policy is a statement of intent, and is implemented as a procedure or protocol" 

Source - Wikipedia

                                                                                                                                         

While the role of vRealize Operations Manager is to help you with Performance & Capacity Management of your Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC), it is important that you feed in the guiding principles of your Business Environment into vROps to get the rational outcomes. These outcomes span across Health, Risk & Efficiency of your SDDC environment.

Join us to learn more about policies and leverage the knowledge to enhance your SDDC environments. As always, it would be a combination of theory and hands on.


Day & Date          : Friday, 19th Feb 2016

Time                     : 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM  (SGT)

Event                    : vROps Webinar 2016

Topic                    : Part 2 : Understanding vROps Policies

Speakers               : Simon Eady & Sunny Dua

WebEx Link          : Join WebEx meeting 

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