vRops – Automated Workload Balance

by | Jun 14, 2017 | vRops

This feature… along with many others in recent vRops and vCenter releases hits close to home for me… Back in 2015 I raised many requirements with VMware, one of them being Automated Workload balancing and many others…. but to see these...

vRops 6.6 – Custom Rest Notification

by | Jun 14, 2017 | vRops

UPDATE 23/11: I recompiled pierrelx’s plugin for 6.6 and you can find it over at the vRops community forums but forgot to blog about it! ……… original post below For those of you that are interesting in / using the Custom Rest...

vRops appliance – explore postgres DB

by | May 26, 2017 | vRops

This post is a quick and dirt.. I used to use vRops on a Windows server but since VMware no longer support vRops on Windows (as of 6.5) I had to access the postgres DB from my desktop… These instructions explain how to open up the postgres DB config /...

vRops – Notifications – XML Templates

by | May 9, 2017 | vRops

So this next post is about creating a custom email notification template with a body that contains an XML structure!!! Why would any one want to do this you may ask? I am working on auto generating tickets in our incident management system, unfortunately due to...

vrops – Export – Tool

by | May 1, 2017 | vRops

Check out this vmware blog post from Pontus Rydin, looks like he has put a tool together similar to my stats on steroids script which extracts the data out of vRops so you can visualise it easier in something like Tableau or Excel Pivot!! I have not tried it...