A while ago I recorded this video of how I show a demo of the Blue Medora management pack for VMware vRealize Operations. I think it can still benefit people to have a look at it.

In the recording I show the 3 most important features of Blue Medora management packs:

• no agents to install, rapid deployment on vROps.
• automatic import of data and, most important of all, automatic relations between objects. Even over management packs.
• some custom dashboards installed.

I also show a full stack troubleshooting dashboard including NetApp storage, Cisco switches and UCS blades (a.k.a FlexPod) and a MS SQL database.

Hope it is useful to you and let me know what you think.

Our second-to-none engineers have launched a utility today that has been developed internally to help with VMware vRealize Operations management: the vROps CLI tool! It is now publicly available for free on Github for linux, Mac and Windows on our public repository.

As you can guess this utility allows you to interact from the command line with your vROps instance: install adapters, list alerts,… And of course this opens the door to some nifty scripts to automate tasks in your environment… like installing those great new Blue Medora management packs:

vropscli uploadPak OracleDatabase-6.3_1.2.0_b20180319.144115.pak

The usage.md file has some instructions and there is an examples directory with scripts.

Expect more info here and on our company blog, or stop by our booth at VMworld EMEA to have a chat!

One of the management packs for VMware vRealize Operations that has evolved the most over the past two years is the Pivotal Cloud Foundry solution. From connecting through our own open -source nozzle to using the BOSH API, Blue Medora now enables you to monitor all aspects of your PCF deployment, including apps. Today we publish yet another set of enhancements. This is one of the most comprehensive solutions on the market to monitor PCF and how it runs on your VMware environment.

PCF infrastructure dashboard

Features in this Release Include:

• Added BOSH Job resource kind, which serves as a catch-all resource for any BOSH job (including BOSH metrics) not covered by other previously-defined resource kinds (See: Resource Kinds and Relationships)
• Improved alerts and recommendations to align with PCF Key Performance Indicators best practice documentation (See: Alerts)
• Added one new Advanced Configuration setting: Collect Events (See: Creating an Adapter Instance)
• Updated Blue Medora Nozzle Tile to include timeseries for historical data to enable improved alerts (NOTE: Be sure to upgrade the management pack prior to upgrading to the new nozzle version. See: Upgrading the Management Pack.)

Blue Medora website product page: https://bluemedora.com/integration/pivotal-cloud-foundry/vmware-vrealize-true-visibility/

HTML Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/PCF/Default.htm

Official Build Number: 3.2.0.20180625.192805

As always contact sales@bluemedora.com for more info.

Blue Medora has concluded the project to update the vROps Management Pack for HPE Servers.

Updates in this Release Include:

• Added support for iLO 5

• Added least-privileged user (LPU) details for OA, VCM, and iLO users

• Added Prerequisite Configurations for ESXi Hosts topic (required to collect external Host > Server relationship and certain metrics)

• Incorporated 2.0.5 patch release, which added support for HP Blade/VMware Host System relationships based on hostname

• Incorporated 2.0.4 patch release, which fixed an issue where a missing keys exception was taking down collection

HTML Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/HPE-Servers/Default.htm

Official Build Number: 2.1.0.20180606.165223

As always if you are interested in this pack, contact sales@bluemedora.com, more info is on the product page here.

Good news if you saw the announcement of VMware vRealize Operations v6.7 yesterday. We worked hard with VMware so that all our management packs are ready for use with this new version! The capacity planning engine has been overhauled a lot, so we wrote a KB article to explain the differences.

HPE 3PAR capacity dashboard

Blue Medora product management have published a partial list of latest versions to use. These also include other updates. The list is not complete yet, but more will follow. For a documentation and data sheets see the product matrix and contact sales there for a demo and trial or email sales@bluemedora.com.

1. Apache Hadoop (1.1.0.20180322.151724) 
   • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_apache_hadoop
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Apache-Hadoop/Default.htm

2. Cisco UCS (3.1.1.20180405.024250) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_cisco_ucs
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Cisco-UCS/Default.htm

3. Cohesity (1.1.0.20180316.141936) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_cohesity
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Cohesity/Default.htm

4. Dell PowerEdge (1.2.0.20180404.144806) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_dell_poweredge
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Dell-EMC-PowerEdge/Default.htm

5. KVM (1.1.0.20180315.202846) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_kvm
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/KVM/Default.htm

6. Lenovo Compute (1.1.0.20180404.154614) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_lenovo_compute
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Lenovo-Compute/Default.htm

7. MEDITECH (1.3.0.20180312.164522) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_meditech
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/MEDITECH/Default.htm

8. Microsoft Azure (1.1.0.20180326.154253) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_microsoft_azure
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Microsoft-Azure/Default.htm

9. Microsoft SCOM (2.1.0.20180316.174713) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_microsoft_scom
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Microsoft-SCOM/Default.htm

10. MongoDB (1.1.0.20180316.142042) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_mongodb
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/MongoDB/Default.htm

11. MySQL (2.1.0.20180316.205435) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_mysql
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/MySQL/Default.htm

12. NetApp E-Series (1.1.0.20180320.142233) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_netapp_e-series
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/NetApp-E-Series/Default.htm

13. Nutanix (1.1.0.20180330.192826) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_nutanix
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Nutanix/Default.htm

14. Oracle Database (1.2.0.20180319.144115) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_oracle_database
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Oracle-Database/Default.htm

15. Oracle Enterprise Manager (4.1.0.20180319.192845) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_oem
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Oracle-Enterprise-Manager/Default.htm

16. Pivotal Cloud Foundry (3.1.0.20180316.195000) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/PCF/Default.htm

17. SAP (2.3.0.20180321.155955) 

1. • Product Download:https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_sap
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/SAP/Default.htm

18. SAP HANA (2.1.0.20180319.134350) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_sap_hana
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/SAP-HANA/Default.htm

19. SolarWinds (1.1.0.20180316.145743) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_solarwinds
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/SolarWinds/Default.htm

20. Xen Hypervisor (1.1.0.20180315.203013) 

1. • Product Download: https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_xen_hypervisor
   • Documentation: https://s3.amazonaws.com/docs.bluemedora.com/vROps/Xen-Hypervisor/Default.htm

The MySQL management pack for VMware vRealize Operations Manager is one of the most populair ones at Blue Medora. It gives you monitoring of your MySQL 5.6.x and 5.7.x databases -including queries – and capaciteit planning, right Inside vROps. The latest release of vRealize Operations MP for MySQL is now generally available.
https://bluemedora.com/downloads/vrops_mp_for_mysql

As with all Blue Medora management packs, the dashboard above shows you that we detect all relations from the database to the VM and beyond. Notable Features in this Release Include:
• Implemented overall performance improvements and query optimization
• Removed MySQL on OS, MySQL IOPS, MySQL on VM, and MySQL Top-N Queries Dashboards
• Added MySQL Usage, MySQL Query Analysis, and MySQL on VMware Dashboards
• Removed Memory Capacity for MySQL instances 
• Added new Views and Reports

As with all new releases it includes the great new HTML Documentation.

Important! With this product we have implemented the new versioning scheme, which removes the “6.x” signifier tied to the minimum supported vROps version. The official build number for this release that will be listed in our documentation is 2.0.0.20170719.200055

• Version number:
◦ “2” is the major version.
◦ “0” is the minor version.
◦ “0” is the patch version.
• Build number:
◦ “20170719” is the build date (YYYYMMDD).
◦ “200055” is the build time (hhmmss).

Overnight Blue Medora released some great new and improved management packs for VMware vRealize Operations Manager. As always the advantages include full API support – no agents to install – relationships detection across solutions and some great dashboards to get you started included with every solution.

Citrix Xen Desktop (build 6.2.10202006)

This is an important new release since VMware decided to drop support for Windows remote collectors in vRealize Operations v6.5.  Updates Include (from release notes):

• Removed Windows Collector requirement for PowerShell metric retrieval (i.e., session latency metrics; not applicable to XenDesktop versions 7.5 and below)
• Added support for WinRM HTTPS
• Renamed Citrix XenDesktop Relationships dashboard to Citrix XenDesktop Health Investigation
• Combined Application Details and Desktop Details dashboards into single Citrix XenDesktop App and Desktop Details dashboard
• Deprecated Inactive User property string metrics

The great new html documentation is available.

JBoss EAP (build 6.3.10100004)

JBoss and Tomcat are new products, inline with our expanding True Visibility Suite offering, to monitor your application servers in the full stack. Key Features include (from release notes):

 

Major features:
• 6 comprehensive monitoring dashboards.
• 5 high-level views—and 2 corresponding reports — including right sizing information over the last 30 days for CPU, Disk, and Memory used per host.
• 170+ collected metrics for Nagios resources.
• Key performance metrics such as System Memory, System CPU, System Disk, Host Memory, Host CPU, and Host Disk.
• Detailed alerts and notifications imported from the Nagios API.
• Capacity definitions for vRealize Calculated CPU Capacity, Disk Capacity, and Memory Capacity.

So why would you use this next to your Nagios deployment? Here are some reasons:

• Centralize information in easy to use dashboards for the whole enterprise.
• capacity calculations !
• Automatic relationships to VMware objects.

As always you can consult the product page to get more info and a demo. The management pack is available standalone or in the TVS Suite Enterprise or Manager-of-Managers True Visibility Suite pack. This is a great collection of management packs to connect Oracle Enterprise Manager, MS SCOM, IBM Tivoli, Solarwinds and Nagios to vRealize Operations. Some customers use three of these connectors at the same time !

All technical documentation is on the support portal.

The first vROps-optimized release for SAP HANA is now generally available: