Availability options with vROPs 8.

While deploying vROPs 8, you will find there are 2 different types of HA configuration and that’s the scope of this post: High Availability: Continues Availability: To understand vROPs supported Continues Availability (CA), we need to be clear on following terms: CA separates the vROPs cluster into 2 fault domain, stretching across vSphere clusters. These … Read more

How to configure Workload Optimization in vROPs 8.x?

Most of the organizations want to have a control on license cost where host based license is economical vs per OS instance cost but the challenge in such a case is, How to control the VM placement? Due to vSphere DRS load balancing, VM’s will be vmotioned from 1 host to other host for which … Read more

Home Lab for VMware based Cloud

I switched my job in March 2020, right in the middle of pandemic with lot of excitement for my new endeavour. During pandemic, i thought the best way to utilize my spare time is to build my new home lab which will help me to explore new products/features of VMware and some other technologies as … Read more

vRealize Operations Manager 8.0 – Install & Configure (Part -2)

Configuration with AD and vCenter Server As you read in the last post, we installed 2 node cluster of vROPs in my home lab. Next we are going to cover following actions in this post: How to configure AD with vROPs? How to configure connection to vCenter? Action 1: How to configure AD with vROPsUnder … Read more

vRealize Operations Manager 8.0 – Install & Configure (Part -1)

Scope of this series is to provide all the information required to deploy vROPs in your environment by covering following information: Sizing Deployment Configuration with AD and vCenter vROPs availability simplification This article will be helpful for techies who are deploying vROPs for the first time and for those who have used a bit older … Read more