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There is already a lot of good stuff embedded in vRealize Operations Manager:** **out of the box dashboards, views, reports, dynamic objects grouping (with custom groups), recommendations and so on. Maybe the next natural step is to test and use the REST API? Wait, there is an API available for vROps? :) Now, if you are wondering where is the vROps API documentation because you didn’t find it in the VMware website, don’t panic! ...

For my first 2016 post, I will write about the new vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX for vSphere (version 3.0) of which release went quite unnoticed mid December 2015. The NSX for vSphere management pack offers comprehensive operations management coverage for any customer piloting, or deploying, NSX for vSphere. One of the concerns raised sometimes with NSX is the operation / troubleshooting side of the picture. Although I disagree (and will not open the debate about that subject here), this new vROps management pack for NSX is really great and should answer the concerns of the most sceptical. ...

Introduced with vSphere 6, the **Platform Services Controller (PSC) **provides several core services, such as Certificate Authority, License service and Single Sign-On (SSO). Multiple external PSCs can be deployed serving one (or more) service, such as vCenter Server, Site Recovery Manager or vRealize Automation. When deploying the Platform Services Controller for multiple services, availability of the Platform Services Controller must be considered. In some cases, having more than one PSC deployed in a highly available architecture is recommended. ...

Many people use NSX-V via the vSphere Web Client. However, the NSX manager provides a REST API entry-point and the consumption of logical networks and security services can be driven directly via the API. This API helps to automate the deployment and the management of NSX through scripts or a CMP. The goal of this post is to describe how to configure syslog for various components of the NSX platform by using API calls. ...

NSX for vSphere 6.1 has been available for almost one year and now is the time to welcome a new major version of the product: NSX for vSphere 6.2. As a reminder for those who have lived in a cave the last years, NSX is VMware’s solution to virtualize network and security for your software-defined data center. NSX network virtualization decouples the network from hardware into a software abstraction layer which allows you to programmatically create, provision, and manage your networks. ...