vRealize Operations 8.x - New Features

The New Features I use the most.

1. Donut Charts.

• This is one of my favorite new features.
• The donut chart allows you to show a lot of information in a smaller space and makes the Dashboards look more modern and clean looking.
• I have been replacing the Heat Map Widgets on some of my custom Dashboards with Donut Charts.
• If you click on the colors of the Donut charts you will then get a list of the data that makes up that color.

2. Top-N Chart and Color Method.

• Adding color to the Top-N makes it so much more usable. With the previous version where is was just blue it didn't grab your eye like adding the color.
• Using the Top-N chart and the Donut chart together makes a GREAT looking Dashboard. See my example below.

3. Ping Monitoring.

• This feature always us to monitor non VMware devices. In a short period of time I learned a lot about latency and packet drops in our environment.

4. Troubleshooting Workbench.

• In previous versions of vROPS I would create Dashboards to help with trouble shooting.
• With Trouble Shooting work bench I don't need to create those custom Dashboards anymore.
• The included Trouble Shooting workbench is like what I did on steroids.

Donut Chart and Top-N Example:

This single Dashboard has a lot of info that would has taken several Dashboards to show same amount of data using Heat Maps. This would be a good example of a Dashboard that managers may want to see.

Donut Chart Config:

• Create a Distribution View.
• Make the visualization a Donut Chart.
• Use Manual distribution.
• Create Buckets and set the values/colors for the Buckets.
• Add the View to a Dashboard.

Top-N Chart Config:

• Add Top-N Widget to Dashboard
• Define configuration and Input Transformation.
• Output Data:Color Method:Custom is where you define the color values.

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