5 arguments why you should implement them at your site.
1️⃣ Everything in one place:
Imagine you’re in the kitchen cooking dinner. You have all the ingredients, but the salt is missing. You run all over the house looking for it, and dinner burns. With the UptimeDC plug-in, you have all the information in one place – as if you had a magic cabinet with everything you need. No more running around!
2️⃣ Locate your equipment:
Think of it as a game of hide-and-seek. Without the plug-in, you look for equipment all over the Data Center as if you were searching for hidden treasure. With the UptimeDC plug-in, you have a treasure map that shows you exactly where all the equipment is – in which rack, at what height. Finding equipment becomes child’s play!
3️⃣ Stress-free failure management:
A malfunction, it’s like a sudden fire alarm. Without the plug-in, you run around in a panic trying to find a fire extinguisher. With the UptimeDC plug-in, you have everything under control – you know who is responsible for the equipment, what the terms of the service contract are, and you can quickly direct a service technician to the site. It’s like having a firefighter at your fingertips!
4️⃣ Faster troubleshooting:
Imagine you are a car mechanic, but without tools. It takes forever to repair a car. With the UptimeDC plugin, you have a full set of tools – all information about equipment, warranties, SLAs. Repairing breakdowns becomes fast and efficient, as if you had superpowers!
5️⃣ Satisfied customers and a calm boss:
Pomyśl o tym jak o organizacji przyjęcia urodzinowego. Bez wtyczki, goście są niezadowoleni, bo brakuje jedzenia i muzyki. Z wtyczką UptimeDC wszystko jest perfekcyjnie zorganizowane – klienci są zadowoleni, a szef spokojny. To jakbyś był mistrzem ceremonii, który zawsze wie, co robić!
👉 Summary
Think of it like hosting a birthday party. Without the plug-in, guests are unhappy because food and music are missing. With the UptimeDC plug-in, everything is perfectly organized – the customers are happy and the boss is calm. It’s like you’re the master of ceremonies who always knows what to do!
With the UptimeDC plugin, the work of IT teams becomes simpler, faster and less stressful. And most importantly, everyone is happy – from operators to service technicians to customers and management.
The same is true for our other plug-ins. Want to know more contact us.
A few simple steps to get you to the next level of monitoring and troubleshooting your applications on any IT infrastructure and application server.
What do you need? Own or purchase @VMware VCF/VVF, and then install ready-made, tested, and most importantly production-proven additional plug-ins (add-ons) just for VCF/VVF for Operations (formerly Aria Operations) from a proven professional in this field, namely from us @Indevops. 🔧
Here's a simple plan:
1️⃣ Read the documentation at👇
https://docs.indevops.com/
2️⃣ Installation and configuration
Download the plug-ins (addons) from the Indevops platform and follow the installation instructions, making sure your environment is ready. Before you do this, check in with us for details on this step:
Conduct tests of the plugin (addon) operation and integration with your current systems on a test environment to verify that it works correctly. If you don’t want to deal with this yourself you can apply to us. We will help you with this step as well.
4️⃣ Support and training
If you have questions, take advantage of the technical support offered by Indevops.
Production deployment – at the very end, you’ll be able to worry-free deploy additional plugins (addons) for #VCF/#VVF for Operations to your production environment with our help or on your own already after testing.
👉 Summary
New plug-ins (addons) and support for already existing #VCF/#VVF for Operations plug-ins are our daily bread, and for you it’s a guarantee of better application performance whether you run them on VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Redhat OpenStack/Openshift, k8s, or IBM Power infrastructure. We have experience and working knowledge on a variety of platforms. Apply to us and we, along with all the capabilities of VCF private cloud and our plug-ins (addons), will do the rest. We will talk about these capabilities in future publications, to which you are cordially invited.
How do Management Packs (Addons) developed by Indevops help maintain high availability of applications monitored by VCF for Operations?
On top of that, there are challenges with the end of support for some VMware by Broadcom plug-ins, but more on that later.
You learned that we have been involved with VMware VCF for Operations technology for years. We specialize in deploying the entire VCF private cloud. We can boast of many successful implementations, and most importantly, we influence the quality of IT services provided by our customers.
In recent months you have learned that VMware by Broadcom is ending support for some VCF for Operations plug-ins. Our customers with whom we have worked for years this inconvenience will not be affected, because they know they can count on us . Here are some of the most common problems and how Indevops can help customers:
1️⃣ Lack of full visibility into IT infrastructure and applications and the links between these topics.
Without accurate monitoring of the virtual environment, server infrastructure, arrays, networks and applications, it is difficult for complex, siloed teams that use different monitoring tools to quickly identify the cause of failure and where it occurred, which can lead to unexpected downtime.
💡Solution:
✅ Indevops Management Packs (Addons) the VCF for Operations tool (Aria Operations) with elements that you won’t find in VMware’s tool as standard. Through this we can take a comprehensive approach to all the components from which an application is built. Believe me these components from which one application is built can be even more than several hundred. This allows you to identify potential problems. In one tool we can see everything and we have ML (Machine Learning) at our disposal, nothing will hide from the eyes of the person who is supposed to react quickly and solve problems.
2️⃣ Manually managing IT processes
Manually sifting through logs from different sources and manually finding errors server by server, router by router, is a big challenge
💡 Solution:
✅ Indevops automates many of the processes involved in extending applications and IT infrastructure in cloud environment management tools. This saves you time and ensures that the process is flawless, standardized and all elements of the application are certainly monitored.
3️⃣ Lack of analysis of historical data
Without insight into historical data, it is difficult to assess the performance of the application and the IT infrastructure running on it.
💡 Solution:
✅ Indevops empowers you to analyze historical data and identify performance bottlenecks across all aspects of your application. Our core offering, VCF for Operations, seamlessly integrates with VCF for Logs—ensuring comprehensive log tracking across all locations—and VCF for Networks, which provides detailed insights into every packet’s journey through network devices.
While we believe our platform provides an all-in-one solution, we understand that unique IT infrastructure components or deep application-level insights may sometimes be required. In such cases, we deliver customized plug-ins for VCF for Operations to address specific needs.
This approach enables our customers to optimize resources effectively, eliminate bottlenecks, and automatically scale applications to handle increased user traffic.
4️⃣ Will a new Pack for VCF for Operations work properly and efficiently?
Creating new plugins for VCF is a challenge. An incorrectly implemented plug-in can affect the performance of our monitoring or lead to an incorrect display of application performance.
💡 Solution:
✅ Indevops management packs (Addons) are created according to a strict standard. Imagine creating thousands of virtual machines automatically every day for software development. It works like a well-run and automated Tesla production belt. Why is that? We create environments for developers, then testers, and finally we simulate running them in an environment similar to the production environment of our clients. This allows us to avoid errors, check performance and correct configuration. Customers get a warmed-up product.
5️⃣ Lack of plan for implementation and change rollback
Deployments without a plan and a change rollback can lead to prolonged downtime in case of failure. Often in immature IT organizations, this happens and leads to catastrophic consequences. I’ve heard it many times and seen it with my own eyes.
💡 Solution:
✅ Indevops provides comprehensive implementation documentation, including a detailed implementation plan and contingency strategies for exiting the implementation if needed. Additionally, we recommend and, upon request, maintain test, pre-production, and production environments for our clients.
Why is this important? Every plan must be thoroughly tested. By progressing through these structured environments, we ensure that the final outcome aligns with expectations. This step-by-step approach allows us to verify the plan at each stage and make necessary adjustments, ensuring a reliable and successful implementation.
Our goal is to give clients peace of mind, knowing their infrastructure is in expert hands. A solid night’s rest empowers everyone to tackle the challenges of the next day with renewed energy and confidence.
👉 Summary
Do you want to maintain applications with a high SLA in a cloud environment? Are you ready to sleep soundly? Apply to us. We’re like the best tailor in town. Whether you want a basic VMware vSphere Foundation cloud deployment or a full VMware Cloud Foundation suite you’ll have it deployed for your dedicated needs. Just like at the best tailor. And on top of that, you’ll get additional Indevops Management Packs for VCF for Operations. You will gain tools to ensure high availability for your business applications and to standardize, automate IT processes in your company. We can do a lot, but this post has its limitations. Apply to us and you will see the rest.
🚨 VMware by Broadcom has withdrawn support for some Management Packs in the VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VMware Aria Operations) solution! 🚨
If you use VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VMware Aria Operations) to monitor your IT infrastructure, you need to know that out of 39 plugins, only7 have a successor. The others you’ll have to create yourself – which can be time-consuming and require specialized skills. 😟
We offer: 🔧 Ready-to-use plug-ins that our customers are already using successfully ⚙️ Services to create new Management Packs to replace those withdrawn by VMware. With our solutions, you’ll not only regain peace of mind, but also get the most out of VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VMware Aria Operations)! 💪
Why it’s worth it:
VMware Aria Operations replaces multiple monitoring systems
Available with every VMware subscription
Monitor logs, metrics, events and business services
As a VMware Premier Partner, Indevops also provides advanced plug-ins such as:
INDEVOPS Data Center Inventory Management for Cloud Operations with Uptime DC
INDEVOPS Application Observability for Aria and Flopsar
Why Didn’t I Know About This Sooner? Aria and Its Unique Features
At INDEVOPS, we aim high but keep our feet on the ground. We’ve been specializing in the Aria Suite, particularly Aria Operations, for nearly 7 years. And for those 7 years, when we’ve talked about how fantastic this tool is and how unique its capabilities are, every time our listeners’ eyes widen in amazement: “Why didn’t I know about this sooner?”.
Let me remind you that Aria Operations, commonly referred to by us as #AROPS, is a tool for analytics in monitoring (#AIOPS, or #MLOps), for comprehensive monitoring, performance management, and optimization of IT environments in data centers. AROPS, together with Aria Operations for Logs and plugins and agents, allows you to collect from everything you can imagine, from a rack cabinet in a data center to the inside of an application (yes, yes, that’s also possible).
At the beginning of their journey with Aria, customers have difficulty fully understanding its potential uses. We have our own way of configuring it to enable success in the shortest possible time, so our story about how we do it is different from VMware’s.
How do we present the collected information and what does it mean?
The key is to divide the entire IT stack into layers: data center, servers, networking, #storage, #middleware, applications, and access.
We present the layers as “health” circles, as well as heatmaps of objects that allow you to quickly determine their state.
The layers are divided into business services so that business owners and operators only see their own service.
What do we put in each “circle”?
A “circle” is a group of objects that make up a given layer or business service.
The “circle” has a “%” – expressing the health of all the objects inside it.
In this way, we know whether a business service or service layer, or an entire layer in the data center is.
Here’s a separate story about business services:
because universal metrics allow them to be effectively monitored immediately,
there is no need to calculate complicated SLAs,
it is easy to identify the components of a business service.
How do we tune alarms, which reduces their number by 45% at the start?
Thanks to our experience, we have a ready-made recipe to prevent you from being flooded with alarms and notifications.
We won’t give you a ready-made recipe here.
We treat each case individually.
And then all the “little things”:
How do we configure monitoring robots?
How do we monitor services?
How do we query application portals from outside?
How do we check certificates and much more?
How do we use agents optimally?
Lately, the presentation of automation combined with monitoring has been a hit:
How to trigger automatic actions when the disk is full?
How to collect reports from domain systems into one place?
It’s great because our presentations are lively and customers ask specific questions, they know what they are looking for and what matters to them, e.g.:
What else can I connect to monitor?
How do the metrics work?
How to build a clear and functional #dashboard?
In answering these and other questions, and at every stage of such a conversation, we support ourselves with real-life examples. This is very important because then the customer has a chance to imagine and place every detail.
The icing on the cake is always a story about our own management and content packs. Yes, yes, we write our own management packs (more on that soon ).
At the end, the potential customer is left with their mouth open.
For the most curious ones, we can provide documentation.
And for the biggest skeptics, we have a reference visit.
Everything you need to make a customer happy.
Write to us about Aria Operations and other topics related to analytics in monitoring, orchestration and automation.
Do you want to implement it in your environment, or do you want to monitor a specific element in your data center? Let us know.
This text was inspired by a visit to a client and a note taken by our engineer. Unfortunately, I won’t write which one, because the sensitivity of this information does not allow it. This visit, the first in a long time to a new potential customer, who was left with his mouth open.
