Running Log Insight on Ravello

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Log Insight, Ravello

Continuing in the same track as the last few blog posts – It now time to get Log Insight up and running in the cloud. Unlike the last post on how to get vRops up and running on Ravello, where the main problem was getting vRops uploaded and setting a static ip. Log Insight threw a hissy fit and didn’t install at all. So starting from scratch, this is Running Log Insight on Ravello, the how to guide.   Uploading Log Insight to Ravello Just like with vRops you need to change vmdk geometry in order to get Log Insight uploaded to Ravello. […]

Running vRops on Ravello

Posted Michael Ryom1 CommentPosted in Ravello, vRops

I recently did a blog post on how to get vRops running in vCloud Air, see here. At the same time I have been using Ravello Systems cloud platform (free for vExperts) to run a vSphere 6 environment. Have been trying to run vRops before on Ravello before, but ran into an error message and due to the limited time I have to play/learn I skipped finding the cause. Luckily I found some time and revisit this error message. The error comes when ever I try to upload the OVF(an extracted OVA).  The error message says: An error occurred: You attempted […]

VMUG: Operations – Danish vRops User group meeting February

Posted Michael Ryom2 CommentsPosted in vRops

VMUG: Operations – Danish vRops User group meeting February Læs denne artikel på dansk nederest på siden (In danish below) It has been long overdue, but now it’s time for the next meeting in the user group formally know as vCops User group Denmark, which can be found here on linkedIn. There isn’t an agenda as such, but there will be plenty to show of and talk about. It doesn’t matter if you are brand new to vRops/vCops or not, what matters is that you come, learn, talk and share problems or solutions about vRops and the products it can […]

How to change VMDK geometry

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in Ravello, Script, vRops

I recently ran into an issue were I needed to change the geometry of some VMDK files – I will do a seperate blog post on where and why later. For now I will just focus on how to change VMDK geometry. A VMDK is just a file with some descriptional data and the actually binary data of the VMDK. Think of it as a virtual harddisk. It adheres to the same physical characteristics and there for the physical characteristics are also part of a VMDK file. Normally you won’t need to change the geometry of a VMDK – I this case […]

Running vRops in vCloud Air

Posted Michael Ryom1 CommentPosted in vCloud Air, vRops

Lately I have been using quite some time on a lab environment which I had running in vCloud Air – There were two reasons for using vCloud Air, first one was to test it and see how it was to run something like this on the platform – I must say I was pleasantly surprised, compared to other cloud services vCloud Air seemed a lot faster, just like running a VM in an internal datacenter. The second reason, the one that got me on this track to test vCloud Air was a promotion to test vCloud Air and get some […]

My vRops VMUG Presentation

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in vRops

Hi all It has been a busy two weeks since I started working for Proact and did my presentation titled “vRops 6 Operational Deep Dive” at the Nordic UserCon in Copenhagen. Like I said it has been some busy days – For that reason I haven’t found the time to put up the presentation. I will now correct that. I know that this isn’t the same as having been there, but some might do a quick recap and others might find some new questions to ask. I did some demoing, some on a local environment on my laptop and the rest […]

Troubleshooting with vRops part 4: Standard Deviation

Posted Michael Ryom1 CommentPosted in VMware, vRops

In the last blog post I showed you what Object level metrics are and how they could be used, to fast get an idea to of how a VM is behaving. In this one I’m going to focus on what metrics can be used to get a better understanding of how a VM is behaving. One of the hardest parts of performance troubleshooting is to know when you have good performance and when you have bad. Is 100% CPU usage for 2 hours a week bad ? Is 10 ms storage latency bad ? Maybe not. What if the blocksize […]

Troubleshooting with vRops part 3: Object Level Metric

Posted Michael Ryom3 CommentsPosted in VMware, vRops

In this part I am going to show you how to use object level metrics, to fast and easily assess if for example a VM is having problems. This is something that would give you a quick indication of this object is having problems that need to be address. This should be looked at before diving into the raw metrics, as this will help you and can guide you in the right direction. Blog series Part 1: vRops Capability Part 2: Summary and Symptoms Part 3: Object Level Metric Part 4: Standard Deviation vRops Object-level metrics Object-level metrics is an excellent […]

Troubleshooting with vRops part 2: Summary and Symptoms

Posted Michael Ryom3 CommentsPosted in VMware, vRops

In the first part of this series on vRops, I talked about vRops capabilities compared to the vRops edtion. In this part I will start to dig into how you should start looking at a problem the vRops way. I my self have fallen victim to, all too quickly jumping over to the “all metrics” tab, and start throwing graph up on screen to see if I can find the cause of the issue. The problem with that method is that it is highly inefficient and like looking for a needle in a haystack, it can take quite some time and […]

Troubleshooting with vRops part 1: vRops Capability

Posted Michael Ryom5 CommentsPosted in VMware, vRops

vRops 6 have been out for a while now, and with that a lot of great things have come, depended on your vRops license that is. In this first part of my performance troubleshooting vRops series, I going to start slow by looking at the three editions of vRops. It is essential that you understand that there are thing which can’t be done as part of this blog series if you don’t have the right edition. I will try to highlight that during the series. Blog series Part 1: vRops Capability Part 2: Summary and Symptoms Part 3: Object Level Metric Part […]