How to monitor High VM CPU with Aria Operations

I was recently working in my lab environment that is constrained on resources. There were a couple VM’s that had High CPU once in a while and needed to be rebooted. They are just test VM’s but I still wanted to be able to catch when they spike the CPU Continue reading How to monitor High VM CPU with Aria Operations

Monitor VMC on AWS Network Egress with Aria Operations

Have you ever looked ate your electric bill and noticed it has a nice monthly readout of usage? Wouldn’t it be great to get that same data in Aria Operations and even be able to set alerts on it? Well now you can. In this guide I will show you Continue reading Monitor VMC on AWS Network Egress with Aria Operations

How to Monitor Bandwidth to and from VMC on AWS with vRops

Ok, before everyone pings me, I know it is now called VMware Aria Operations but the name change is so new that I know most people will still refer to it as vRops. Heck, I still call it Alive. Skittles view anyone? Anywho….are you looking for a way to monitor Continue reading How to Monitor Bandwidth to and from VMC on AWS with vRops

How to reindex the vROPS database

The vRealize Operations Appliance has it’s own local database. Behind the scenes it is running vPostgres to store information for the infrastructure it is monitoring. Over time the database tables can become fragmented and impact performance of the user interface. Always snapshot or backup your appliance before attempting this procedure. Continue reading How to reindex the vROPS database