vRealize Suite components (namely vRealize Operations (vROps), vRealize Log Insight (vRLI), and vRealize Business for Cloud (vRBC) had
an update GA release. With this latest release of vROps a big focus has been on “simplifying the
user experience” and “quicker time to value”.
VMware announced the release of vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) 6.6. vRealize Operations is one
of the three critical pieces of the vRealize Suite that provides Intelligent
Operations for the software-defined datacenter (SDDC). The latest vRealize
Suite is made up of vRealize Operations 6.6, vRealize Log Insight 4.5, and
vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3
vROps is
VMware's popular Cloud and Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) monitoring and
analytics solution. With VMware moving to a more agile development model for
vROps, we have seen each dot release getting dropped quarterly, which is a huge
improvement from vCOps days. The quarterly release cycle has also delivered
major new features each time, besides the now expected usability and
stability improvements. It looks like vROps 6.6 kept the momentum going
with a major UI redesign, the addition of several new capabilities, and
improvements to many existing features. Congrats to the product team on a job
well done!
Let's take a quick inventory of what's new and improved.
Redesign user interface provides modern look
and improved user experience
·
New HTML5 user
interface provides an easier and consistent experience.
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The Getting Started
dashboard allows for quick navigation.
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Persona-based
dashboards provide answers in one place. Dashboards are separated into
categories such as Operations, Capacity and Utilization, Performance
Troubleshooting, Workload Balance, and Configuration and Compliance.
Fully Automated Workload Balancing
·
Ensures performance
across the datacenter's with fully Automated Workload Balancing, across
Clusters, and across Datastores.
·
Ensures DRS
Configurations and provides the option to view and set DRS automation
level for individual objects to deliver better balance.
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Predictive DRS takes
action to preempt and avoid resource contention.
·
Utilizes operations
analytics to optimize initial placement of workloads through vRealize
Automation based on business needs.
·
vRealize Automation
Management Pack is included OOTB.
vSAN Management Pack is preinstalled and ready
to roll
·
Allows for centralized
management across stretched clusters.
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Coverage for stretched
clusters, deduplication/compression, resync traffic.
·
Ensure vSAN
readiness from a single console.
·
Deploy and manage vSAN
with confidence with complete visibility down to individual physical disk
level.
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Operationalize
vSAN with performance and capacity monitoring.
·
Complete
vSAN management, which includes administering performance, capacity, logs,
and configuration and health.
Updated SDDC Health Management
Pack
·
Single pane of glass
to monitor health of all SDDC components and infrastructure
·
SDDC app oriented
views with Health status for each product.
·
Correlation of SDDC
app component to the underlying infrastructure health deployment instance and
corresponding VM health.
·
Enhanced OOTB Health
and Compliance Alerts with Recommendations.
New Service Discovery Management
Pack
·
Discover
and list services and display the relationship between selected service and
other services on other VMs.
·
Visualize
relationship of selected VM with other VMs
·
Service
Breakdown Across Environment
·
Validate
SRM protection group and recovery plan membership
All new Federation Management Pack
·
Ability
to have visibility into multiple SDDC Deployments through a single pane of
glass. These deployments are usually monitored by individual vROps instances
which creates complexity for the end users
·
Provide
a summary of Performance, Capacity, and Configuration of the Virtual
Infrastructure to Senior Executives and VI Admins across all SDDC deployments
·
Provide
summary views of Health and Configuration of SDDC Management Stack to Senior
Executives and VI Admins across all SDDC deployments
·
Provide
a unified view of events triggered across the SDDC environments into a single
page for making it easier for Network Operations Centers (NOC) / Helpdesk to
initiate action
·
Ability
to create a data warehouse where the user-selected set of metrics could be
stored for data archiving and reporting use cases. Users should have an ability
to select the desired set of Objects and their metrics and properties to be
forwarded to the Federation instance of vROps
·
Ability
to create reports for capacity and configuration for the Senior Executive and
exporting of data out of vROps.
Additional out-of-the-box compliance capabilities
·
Ability to tackle
compliance problems through the new vSphere hardening dashboard
·
Extends compliance
through PCI & HIPAA compliance for vSphere.
·
Ensures business
configurations through new cluster, host, and VM configuration dashboards
Complete in-context integration with vRealize Log Insight
·
Faster troubleshooting
in vROps with in-context logs from vRLI.
·
Direct launch of Log
Insight Dashboards.
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Direct launch into Log
Insight Interactive Analytics.
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Object auto-initiated
log management.
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vROps Alerts
auto-initiated log management
Updated vRealize Business
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Cost analysis for all
services on AWS and Azure.
·
VM Level usage
visibility into public clouds.
·
Fine-grained cost
analysis for private cloud.
·
Makes capacity
optimization quantifiable.
·
Procurement planning.
vRealize
Operations 6.6 has made some incredible improvements inspired
by many of you out there that continue to challenge VMware and the Cloud Management Business Unit to do better!
Thank you! Simplification; quicker time to value; persona-based
dashboards and troubleshooting flows; enhanced fully automatable workload
balancing; improved alerting to resolve issues quicker, and better securing the SDDC, are just scratching the surface of what vRealize
Operations and vRealize
Suite can help you with. I hope you enjoy this release!
Download and Try vRealize Operations 6.6 here!
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