vRealize Operations Manager 6: How to create Projects

vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part V - Create Custom Groups with vSphere Tags

One of the best vROps (old vCOps) features is the option to create custom groups where you can define the criteria membership and apply a policy rule to them.

There is a lot of environments where the Virtual Machines are not properly configured and defined, with the vSphere Folders or inventory VM names, no naming convention, etc.... 

Is here where the "vSphere Tags" win the game! You can easily tag your VMs!  ..use PowerCLI!!!! (next post incoming)

Imagine that you need to create a policy rule and a Custom Group but your VMs in vSphere are not organized...  Are you thinking in add one-by-one to a Custom Group? and what if tomorrow you add new VMs? ...manually adding Vms is not a good idea, so try to tag your VMs when you create it on the vSphere environment and keep it updated with your CMDB database.

But, how to tag your environment properly?  First of all, you "must" have clear the tags you want to add and how to categorize it.  Just an example, filter you DDBB Vms  (SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc) or filter by App Vms, or Bckp environment, or AV environment... and so on.....

Once you have your VMs tagged, you can create a custom group as shown below:

See previous Part I    -vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part I - OVA deployment

See previous Part II   - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part II - Express Installation

See previous Part III  - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part III - Manage Solution

See previous Part IV  - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part IV -  How import LDAP users

Related with:  VMware vSphere: how to create tags - Part I

http://virtualshocks.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/vmware-vsphere-how-to-create-tags-part-i.html

Ediciones de VMware vCloud Suite

VMware en su version vCloud Suite dispone de tres ediciones: Standard, Advanced y Enterprise.

En cada una de ellas se incluyen diferentes soluciones: vSphere Enterprise Plus, vRealize Operations (vROps), vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Business y vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM): 

vRealize Operations es el antiguo vCenter Operations
vRealize Automation es el antiguo vCenter Automation
vRealize Business es en antiguo IT Business Management

Mas info en:  http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vCloud-Suite-Pricing-Packaging-Whitepaper.pdf

vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part III - Manage Solution

Video about how to Manage solution  or how to add vCenters to vROps monitoring


See previous Part I - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part I - OVA deployment
See previous Part II- vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part II - Express Installation

vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part I - OVA deployment

See next step Part II  - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part II - Express Installation
See next step Part III - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part III - Manage Solution

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vRealize Operations Manager 6 initial deployment

vRO is finally here (old vCOps). There is a lot of changes in the new GA so try to review the releases notes and the new documentation:

https://www.vmware.com/support/vrops/doc/vrops-60-release-notes.html

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vrealize-operations-manager-pubs.html

There is a new sizing guide with 4 new sizes from Extra-Small to Large 
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2093783

The main different with the las releases is that right now there is only one VM instead the older 2 VM in the the vApp version.

The first screen when you deploy the new vRO6 is a new helpfully wizard for an Express Installation, a New Installation(clustering) or Expand an Existing Installation adding new nodes:

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VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps): how to create specfic Groups

In this case, Groups are refereed to items which are suitable to be monitoring, not for user groups or similar as i just wrote in other post
Let´s go! From the vSphere UI portal (https://ip/vcops-vsphere) click on the top option "Configuration" and the select the tab "Manage Group Typs" and add a new one by click on the plus button:

Now, in the top page, next to  the World icon, click on "Actions" and select Create new group..."

Follow the wizard and add the group  created on the Type option:

On the second step add the VMs or the object/item that you want to add to the Group:

Now, you can see the specific group holding on the Groups icon:

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps): assign user access to custom dashboards

From the Custom UI portal (https://ip/vcops-custom) and with admin rights, go to de ADMIN tab and select SECURITY.

Create a new Accoun Group first and after a User Account as shown below:

 Once we have the Group and the User, it´s time to assign access to the custom dashboard.

Go to the HOME tab, select the dashboard and click on SHARE:

Select the dashboard that you want to share and "drag-an-drop" to the Group (from the right pane to the left pane).

 Let´s go to test it! Open the Custom UI portal with the credentials of the new user and verify that this user only have access to the specific custom dashboard:

 

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps): import users from LDAP

As you can´t add the vCOps vApp to an Active Directory domain or LDAP system, you have two options: create local user and groups on the vCOps or import users from an LDAP.

Let´s go! Connect to the Custom UI portal (https://ip/vcops-custom) and click on the Security option on the ADMIN tab (top pane) as shown below:

After click o0n the "Import From LDAP" button, you must add the IP, the Base DN of your AD and an user and pass with enough rights to access.
Once you fill the blanks, click on Load LDAP Groups and add the groups on the down-right pane:

Click the in OK and  return to the previous screen. Click "Lookup" and select the users/groups found:

Now you can view the user and add it to the specific Account Groups on the User Management:.

It´s time to test it!  Go to the Custom UI portal or vSphere UI portal and try to access with the user name as it appears on the Account Groups (format: user@domain)

Voila!!!!