Eric Sloof

Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes explains how to extend VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) to provide business-oriented infrastructure reporting that empowers business stakeholders to make better decisions and gain insight into various business services in the datacenter or cloud.



This paper can serve as a comprehensive guide that ties various distinct vROps functionality into a cohesive solution and enables IT to become more transparent and aligned with business value. vROps topics covered in this white paper:

1. Define Custom Groups that align your IT with the business structure of your organization.
2. Create Super Metrics that quantify the way you do business.
3. Build Custom Dashboards that provide information business wants.
4. Overview of automating the entire process.

Cross vCenter VM Mobility - CLI is a command line interface (CLI) tool that can be used to migrate or clone a VM from one host to another host managed by a linked or isolated vCenter (VC) instance. It has been built using vSphere Java-based SDK APIs.

Currently, as of vSphere 6.0, the vSphere HTML5 Web Client allows users to perform Cross-VC operations like migration and cloning if two VCs are linked. If VCs are not linked, users cannot view the infrastructure across multiple VCs and thus, cannot utilize this functionality through UI. This Fling provides a way for users to access this vSphere feature through simple CLI commands. It also supports cross-cluster placement and shared storage vMotion between two VCs.

Download: Cross vCenter VM Mobility - CLI

Enhance end-to-end operations management by integrating with VMware vRealize Operations. Log Insight comes with built-in knowledge and native support of vSphere and other VMware products, like VMware Horizon with View, vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation. Log Insight integrates with VMware vRealize Operations to bring unstructured and structured data together, for significantly enhanced end-to-end operations management.

• Introduction to VMware vRealize Log Insight
• 360 Troubleshooting with vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight
• Finding Issues with vRealize Log Insight

The Storage I/O Control (SIOC) feature in VMware vSphere 6.5 is designed to differentiate performance between high priority virtual machines and low priority ones. Additionally, SIOC allows administrators to allocate absolute IOPS to virtual devices to meet performance requirements.

This paper shows the advantages of using Storage I/O Control to manage shared storage using SSD. A study shows that administrators can set the performance expectation of VMs in terms of IOPS using explicit numbers or proportional values in vSphere 6.5, and that high priority VMs achieve more IOPS compared to low priority VMs.