About vCops 5.6 licensing

January 10, 2013 No comments

When working with vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 you have various licensing options. You can choose to use the free Foundation license, use a dedicate... Read more

vCloud Suite per CPU licensing versus vCD/SRM/vCOPS per VM licensing

September 13, 2012 2 Comments

With the introduction of vSphere 5.1 and the vCloud Suite 5.1 VMware dropped vRAM (or vTAX) and introduced per CPU licensing for most of her products.... Read more

Additional info on the vCops 5 installation requirements

July 27, 2012 No comments

With vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) VMware is offering a great operations management solution for vSphere and vCloud environments. vCOPS is availa... Read more

vRops: How to create and use a metric XML configuration file

December 07, 2015 4 Comments

With vRealize Operations Manager you can create a metric configuration file; this is an XML file that contains pre-defined metrics that can be used in... Read more

vRops 6.1 – Installation, configuration and licensing tips #updated

November 11, 2015 4 Comments

Lately I’ve been working on various vRealize Operations projects, involving vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Infra... Read more

Live from VMworld Europe 2014: Most important announcements summarized

October 14, 2014 10 Comments

After VMworld 2014 US, it’s now time for VMworld Europe 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. For a wrap-up of what has been announced in San Francisco, I w... Read more

What you can(‘t) do with vRealize Operations Insight from a licensing perspective

October 06, 2014 No comments

At VMworld 2014, VMware introduced a new suite in the operations management space: vRealize Operations Insight (vROI). vROI is an add-on on top of vSO... Read more

Live from VMworld 2014: Most important announcements summarized

September 01, 2014 3 Comments

VMworld is VMware’s annual conference dealing with all things virtual, software-defined, cloud and more. This article summarises the most import... Read more

Live from VMworld 2014: A closer look at VMware vRealize

August 26, 2014 2 Comments

Also read: Live from VMworld 2014: Most important announcements summarized. At VMworld 2014 VMware announced its new vRealize brand. vRealize is the n... Read more

vRealize Operations

July 05, 2014 No comments

vRealize Operations (f.k.a. vCenter Operations Manager) is VMware’s tooling for Operations Management. vRealize Operations comes in different ve... Read more