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Like any other monitoring tool with vROps you will get lots of alerts, most of them during the day while you're doing other things. You can send alerts to email, but in my experience those emails not always get the right attention. To make sure you see the alerts (especially the important ones) you...

VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly known as vRealize Network Insight) is a great tool to get information about traffic within your ESXi enviroment. After configuring your vCenter and NSX instance the collection starts and can give you lots of useful information. Getting the right data isn...

Sometimes you find yourself in the situation you just need to migrate to a new vCenter. Deploying a new vCenter and configuring it is not hard to do, but the migration might have some challenges. One of those challenges for me was migrating the dvSwitches to a new vCenter, while the old vCenter is s...

After passing the VMware DCV VCAP Design exam I wanted to take the VCAP deploy exam. This is a lab exam, making it more fun to do! After working with VMware vsphere for a couple of years I decided to just plan the exam a couple of weaks ahead and start perparing. After rescheduling because of covid-...