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Installing the VMware Management Packs for vR Operations v6.0

Hello again, There are three Management Packs - Log Insight (LI), VMware Infrastructure Navigator (VIN) and Storage that I think most or all of us will install.  This article will help you get them installed and configured. BTW, these MPs

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vSphere Web Client Health State Widget has errors after vR Ops Migration?

Hi all, Mine did.  Turns out you can find out more about this buried in the depths of a manual but I missed it.  After you upgrade your vC Ops to vR Ops you need to do something unexpected to

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Newsletter: January 4, 2015

Hello all, I hope everyone is doing well - and remembering to write or type 2015?  It was nice to have some time off lately and I even actually took it off in the mountains.  But home early and lots

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Add a Read Only account to vRealize Operations v6

I think that I will be needing a read only type account in my vRealize environment soon so here is how to do it. First you need to have Active Directory (if that is your thing) configured which you can

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Adding your own (admin) accounts to vR Operations v6

It is not very good to always log in as Admin and in fact many of the customers I have worked with over the years have not allowed that sort of work.  Everyone needs a named account.  So here we

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Configuring outbound SMTP on vRealize Operations v6

Hello all, This is just a quick note to help get outbound SMTP working for vR Ops. Start on the Home page, and select Administration followed by Outbound Alert Settings. Use the green arrow you can see in the image

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Upgrading vC Ops 5.8.3 to vRealize Ops 6.0

Hello, This is quite an upgrade - in fact it is not an upgrade but a migration.  Meaning you install vRealize Operations 6.0 and then migrate your vC Ops data to vRealize Operations (vR Ops). This will not do vR

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