© 2010 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Troubleshooting & Assessing the Health

of VMware Environments with Free Tools

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Introduction

Virtual Design Master Season 4 – 3Rd place

Systems Engineer, Presidio

•Paul Woodward Jr.

•Twitter - @ExploreVM

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Who doesn’t love Hashtags?!

#WIVMUG

#PaulWoodwardJr

#ExploreVM

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Session Agenda

Tools from VMware

Tools from the Community

Q&A

This is a Community Session, feel free to share and interact!

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Tools Provided by VMware

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vRealize Log Insight

vCenter licensing includes a 25

OSI pack of vRealize Log Insight

licensing.

This is good for a single Log

Insight appliance, and up to 25

items including vCenter, VMs,

network devices, and VMware

components.

OSI licenses are only

consumed when a device is

configured to send logs to

vRLI.

Just having a VM inside the

infrastructure doesn't consume

an OSI unless it's sending logs

itself.

ITS FREE*

*Included with vCenter Licensing as of 2016

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vRealize Log Insight – Video Walkthrough

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vRealize Log Insight – Cont.

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vRealize Ops Manager

Centralized dashboard

Health, performance, &

capacity metrics

Immediate results

Analytical measurements over

time

vROPS is a licensed product,

BUT it can be test drove for 60

days

VMware Partners have

additional packs for health

assessments

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vRealize Ops Manager – Overview Video

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Community Tools

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vCheck by Alan Renouf

“vCheck is a PowerShell HTML framework script”

Can run manually or as a scheduled task

Output as an HTML web page or email

Over 150 items checked

Prerequisites:

• PowerShell V2

• PowerCLI 5.01 or later version

• vCenter 2.5 or later version

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vCheck Install & Run

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vCheck Output

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RVTools

“RVTools is a Windows .NET 4.0 application which uses the VI SDK

to display information about your virtual environments”

Similar to vCheck

Data is displayed in a GUI versus a page/email

Outputs 24 metrics

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RVTools – Example Output

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Tools Recommended by the vExpert Community

Veeam One Free Edition

• Similar to vROPS

VMware PowerCLI MP for

Linux & Mac OS

Links to the tools are on my

blog

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Shameless Promotion – Virtual Design Master!

Virtualdesignmaster.io

@vDMChallenge #VirtualDesignMaster

International, community based design competition

offering learning, networking, cash and prizes!

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Shameless Promotion 2: Electric Boogaloo - Lunch Keynote

Grow Your Career and Get the Job You Want - Practical Advice from

the Field

Sean Massey Sarah Johnson

Rebecca Fitzhugh Paul Woodward Jr

Feeling stuck in your job? Know you

are capable of so much more? Is it

time to move on to the next part of

your journey? Our expert panel has

been there before. Join local

Wisconsinites Sean Massey, Paul

Woodward, and Sarah Johnson

along with VCDX and special guest

Rebecca Fitzhugh of Rubrik as they

share how they grew, how they

failed, and how they thrived from

those mistakes. Be sure to bring

your questions, as the panelists

would love to help you take the next

step in your career

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Resources and Links

My Blog: ExploreVM.com

Slide Deck (embedded & lined to SlideShare:

http://www.explorevm.com/2017/05/join-explorevm-at-wivmug-usercon-

2017.html

vCheck: http://www.virtu-al.net/vcheck-pluginsheaders/vcheck/

RVTools: http://www.robware.net/rvtools/

Free Tools for VMware: https://www.vladan.fr/free-tools-vmware/

vRealize Log Insight: http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-log-

insight.html

vRealize Ops Manager: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vrealize-

operations-manager-pubs.html

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