Plain Virtualization

Decided to fill up the missing information which was not listed in the documentation of vRealize Operations neither was it stated anywhere by anyone in any blog post that I tried to Google around. Was doing a vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA) and wanted to advise customer on the resources required.  Other than the documentation from here or from the vR Ops Installation Guide , it does not state what was provided e.g. the different profile sizes of the vApp is suited for which type of environment other than running the deployment wizard.  This is not very helpful especially when you are doing planning and the only way to get that information is to deploy it. Upon deploying, you will get to know the disk size that vR Ops will use.   Based on documentation, was 250GB however in the wizard it shows 1.4GB for thin provisioned and 266GB for thick provisioned.  vSphere Client  vSphere Web Client There are four profile sizes of the vR Ops vA...

With both the VMworld 2014 in San Francisco and Barcelona, there are many new bundles and re-branding starting with vRealize. To many there are many questions and confusion on what is really in all these bundles?  Here I am just to clarify the confusion which I, myself got confused with and have cleared it up. Re-branding We know that VMware has vCenter Operations Management Suite (Standard/Advanced/Enterprise).  In this suite, there were 4 components namely: vC Ops Manager, vCenter Infrastructure Navigator, vCenter Chargeback (EOA), vCenter Configuration Manager.  With the new re-branding, this is now call vRealize Operations 6 (Standard/Advanced/Enterprise). The powerful vCloud Automation Center (formerly DynamicOps), is now rename to vRealize Automation . IT Business Management (ITBM) which provide a transparency of cost and services across your whole infrastructure is now known as vRealize Business . VMware Log Insight a log analytics tool is also rename...