We sometimes get the question how to install a standalone VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs without the VCF installer. Some customers want to use the OVAs in their environments and manage them over the lifecycle option in Fleet Management. So only for monitoring purposes with some lifecycle options for the Management Solutions. I… Read More »
We sometimes get the question how to install a standalone VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs without the VCF installer. Some customers want to use the OVAs in their environments and configure them without Fleet Management. So only for monitoring purposes without additional overhead for management. I have therefore reproduced the necessary steps and… Read More »
There are two types of organizations in VCF Automation 9. The All Apps Org and the VM Apps Org. The All Apps Org automatically configures the associated Account in Operations 9, but the Account for the VM Apps Org must be set up manually. Since we need a service account for this, I have written… Read More »
There are many VMware users who are still using pure vSphere environments and now want to switch to VCF. This can also lead to constellations where an upgrade to vSphere 9 (vCenter and ESX) is not planned or possible. Nevertheless, it is possible to import the vSphere 8 environments and operate and manage them as… Read More »
So, you’ve upgraded (or are thinking about upgrading) to VCF 9.0, and someone drops this bombshell: “Hey… ELM is gone.” Yep. That’s right. Enhanced Linked Mode is officially out in VCF 9. But don’t panic! You still get ELM-like magic with a shiny new feature called vCenter Linking just with a few differences and one… Read More »
Thanks to Ara Petrosyan, Felix Azizyan, Ani Harutyunyan and Thomas Kopton for their help. One of the most used features in VCF Operations is its integrated capacity management engine. It has comprehensive capabilities to take metrics like HA, buffers and more into consideration and present the remaining capacity automatically. VCF Operations provides a capacity view… Read More »
Thanks to Thomas Kopton for his inputs! VCF Operations provides several management packs to enhance its capabilities for managing external systems. If for a component (e.g. a storage device) no existing management pack is available, customers can use the management pack builder to create a new pack on their own. The beauty of this is… Read More »