vRops 6.6 – Custom Rest Notification

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

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

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

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...

vRops Architecture / Troubleshooting by VMware Education

Been a bit slow on the posing, I had to buy a new lab server SuperMicro sys-5028d-tn4t (I will post about it at a later date…) this is due to my other 3 i7 ESX hosts being in transit from Australia as I had to move back to Switzerland for...