vRealize Operation Manager 7.5 introduces several new features including a sizing tool, improved installation and upgrade process, allocation model metrics, native application monitoring, and increased automation capabilities. The document outlines each new feature providing details on how to use the sizing tool, install upgrades, enable allocation modeling, set up application monitoring, and automate tasks using the REST API, PowerCLI, and vRealize Orchestration. It also discusses the benefits of the vExpert program including early access programs, private events, training discounts, and opportunities to engage with the VMware community.

1. vRealize Operation Manager 7.5 – What’s new
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2. Agenda
1 Sizing tool
2 Install and Upgrade
3 Allocation model / Metric Colleration
4 Application monitoring (native VMware management packs)
5 Automatization
6 vExpert program

3. History

4. Sizing tool
https://vropssizer.vmware.com/
• New deploy
• Basic: vSphere environment’s info for planning
• Advanced: Other management packs (Endpoints,
Physical hardware, Storage…)
• HA
• PDF riport
• Validate your existing environment
• Advanced use cases feature
• Select „Other Data Source”
• You can find the current object and metric count
in vRealize Operations under:
• Administration > History > Audit > System Audit
• Add values (Objects and Metrics)

5. Install and Upgrade
1. Run the vROps 7.5 upgrade and
assessment tool
2. Snapshot your virtual appliance(s)
• Take your vRealize Operations cluster
offline before creating the snapshot
• Don’t snapshot the virtual memory
and don’t quiesce the filesystem
3. Upload and install the OS update
4. Upload and install the Appliance Update
5. Verify upgrade and delete snapshots
https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/7.5/com.vmware.vcom.core.doc/GUID-42502543-2451-4317-BA42-F7D12172C23B.html

6. Allocation model returned…
• By default, vRealize Operations 7.5 only uses the
demand model
• Enabling allocation model can be done from the Assess
Capacity page by clicking on the icon shown in the
screenshot below
• It’s possible to configure a different overcommit ratio
for each cluster Eg.: developer vs. production
• Policy needed for each ratio and should be applied to
the cluster before making the change to the settings

7. Metric Correlation
• Automatically identifies correlations
between metrics
• All Self-Metrics
• All self-metrics will search for a
correlations across all non-instanced
metrics for that object
• Selected metric of all peers
• In this case, we selected CPU Demand
% for a VM so vROps will look across
all peer VM’s for another one with a
similar CPU Demand % profile

8. Native Application monitoring
• Select destination (vRealize Operation or Wavefront?)
• Download the vRealize Application Remote Collector by clicking the Download
icon in the Application Remote Collector page (2,2GB)
• Deploy OVF template
• Configure (change default password)
• Install Telegraph agent
You can monitor application services supported by vRealize Application Remote Collector in vRealize
Operations Manager or in Wavefront. You can also manage the life cycle of agents and application services
on virtual machines.

9. Native Application monitoring

10. Native Application monitoring
Install Application
Remote Controller
appliance

11. Native Application monitoring
Change root password
• Open the console
• Login by root
• Change password

12. Native Application monitoring
Add appliance here

13. Native Application monitoring
• Add Application Remote Controller
to vRealize Operation Manager

14. Native Application monitoring

15. Native Application monitoring

16. Native Application monitoring
• Install Agent
• Wait ~5 minutes for healthy information
• Click „configure agents” button

17. Native Application monitoring
Multiple credentilas

18. Native Application monitoring

19. Native Application monitoring

20. Native Application monitoring
Endpoint Operation vs. Telegraph agent

21. Automatization - API
https://YourvROpsInstance/suite-api/docs/rest/index.html

22. Automatization – API (Postman)
REST call 
Create new
Environment
Add VARIABLEs

23. Automatization – API (Postman)

24. Automatization - PowerCLI
• From v. 6.0 R2 PowerCLI contains Operation manager
module by default
• Connect-OMServer –Server „IP” –User admin -Password

25. Automatization - PowerCLI
In this example we would like to see active network alerts:
• Get-OMAlert –Status Active –Type ’Network Alerts’

26. Automatization – vRealize Orchestration
• Install and configure vRO
• https://vRO-FQDNorIP/vco/
• HTML5 UI

27. Automatization – vRealize Orchestration

28. Automatization – vRealize Orchestration

29. Automatization – vRO and vROps
• Install vRealize Orchestrator Adapter
solution
https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-vrealize-orchestrator
https://docs.vmware.com/en/Management-Packs-for-vRealize-Operations-Manager/3.0/vrealize-orchestrator/GUID-E09F3146-95B2-42D4-AB8F-F474ED7A6FEF.html

30. Automatization – vRO and vROps
Admin page – Installation fail
Call VMware GSS – you have to change a flag in Postgres 

31. Automatization – vRO and vROps
• Go to vRO server in vROps
• From Action menu select: „Add a
vCenter server to vRealize
Orchestrator”
• Add vCenter Server address and
credentials...

32. Automatization – Reconnect host when it became unavailable
Change manual
process to auto
• This Alert part of
vCenter Solution by
default
• Recommend manual
process to solve the
problem
• Automate this step!


33. Automatization – Reconnect host when it became unavailable
Create new recommendation
Adapter type select: vRealize Orchestration Adapter
1
From Action select your (own) Workflow
In this case: Reconnect Host
2

34. Automatization – Reconnect host when it became unavailable
Add your custom recommendation to Alert

35. Automatization – Reconnect host when it became unavailable

36. Automatization – Reconnect host when it became unavailable

37. Automatization – DEMO time

38. Automatization – Next level
• Automate remediation Eg.: restart service
Alert Notification
(REST)
Alert Notification
(REST)
Service down
Service up
Webhook shim

39. Links
Application Monitoring https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/7.5/com.vmware.vcom.core.doc/GUID-D9692377-6DDB-4321-9200-79D5F12D4234.html
Postman https://www.getpostman.com/
vRealize Orchestrator https://www.vmware.com/hu/products/vrealize-orchestrator.html
vRealize Operation 7.5
Release Notes
https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/7.5/rn/vRealize-Operations-Manager-75.html
vExpert Official page https://vexpert.vmware.com/

40. vExpert

41. vExpert
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42. vExpert

43. vExpert
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