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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager

Mastering vRealize Operations Manager

By : Scott Norris
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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager

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Overview of this book

If you are an administrator of a virtual environment and have used vROps before but want to gain a professional understanding by implementing complex tasks easily with it, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Other resources available
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. vROps – Introduction, Architecture, and Availability
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1. vROps – Introduction, Architecture, and Availability
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A new, common platform design
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The vRealize Operations Manager component architecture
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vRealize Operations Manager node types
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Multi-node deployment and high availability
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High availability in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0
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Summary
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2. Installing and Migrating vROps 6.0
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2. Installing and Migrating vROps 6.0
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Installation and migration
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Adding additional nodes
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Summary
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3. vRealize Operations Manager Badges
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3. vRealize Operations Manager Badges
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What are vRealize Operations Manager badges?
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Changes in badges of vROps 6.0
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Understanding the Health badge
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Understanding the Risk badge
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Understanding the Efficiency badge
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Summary
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4. The Merged UI
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4. The Merged UI
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What has changed in the new UI?
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Components that make up the Merged UI
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The primary vROps sections overview
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5. Policies in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0
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5. Policies in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0
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What are policies?
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Creating policies
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Modular policies
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6. Capacity Management Made Easy
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6. Capacity Management Made Easy
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An Introduction to capacity management for Operations Manager policies
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Defining the correct capacity management policies for your environment
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Projects
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7. Dashboard Design
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7. Dashboard Design
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Why use custom dashboards?
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Widgets
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Creating a custom dashboard
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Summary
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8. Reporting and Views
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8. Reporting and Views
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Changes to views and reports in Operations Manager 6.0
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Views in Operations Manager 6.0
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Reports in Operations Manager 6.0
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9. Super Metrics
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9. Super Metrics
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What are super metrics and when do I use them?
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Metric terminology and definitions
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Super metric types
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Building your own super metrics
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Applying super metrics in Operations Manager 6.0
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Comparing super metrics to views
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10. Administering vROps 6.0
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10. Administering vROps 6.0
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Overview of role-based access
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Configuring an LDAP source
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Configuring users and groups
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11. Expanding vROps with Solutions
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11. Expanding vROps with Solutions
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Why collect additional data?
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Installing solutions
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Importing data using the REST API
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12. Application Management in vROps 6.0
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12. Application Management in vROps 6.0
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Creating applications
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Importing applications
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13. Alerting, Actions, and Recommendations
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13. Alerting, Actions, and Recommendations
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Symptoms, recommendations, and actions
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Creating symptoms and recommendations
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Creating alerts
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14. Just Messing Around
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14. Just Messing Around
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Index
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Index

A new, common platform design

In vRealize Operations Manager 6.0, a new platform design was required to meet some of the required goals that VMware envisaged for the product. These included:

  • The ability to treat all solutions equally and to be able to offer management of performance, capacity, configuration, and compliance of both VMware and third-party solutions
  • The ability to provide a single platform that can scale up to tens of thousands of objects and millions of metrics by scaling out with little reconfiguration or redesign required
  • The ability to support a monitoring solution that can be highly available and to support the loss of a node without impacting the ability to store or query information

To meet these goals, vCenter Operations Manager 5.x (vCOps) went through a major architectural overhaul to provide a common platform that uses the same components no matter what deployment architecture is chosen. These changes are shown in the following figure:

A new, common platform design

When comparing the deployment architecture of vROps 6.0 with vCOps 5.x, you will notice that the footprint has changed dramatically. Listed in the following table are some of the major differences in the deployment of vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 compared to vRealize Operations Manager 5.x:

Deployment considerations

vCenter Operations Manager 5.x

vRealize Operations Manager 6.0

vApp deployment

vApp consists of two VMs:

  • The User Interface VM
  • The Analytics VM

There is no supported way to add additional VMs to vApp and therefore no way to scale out.

This deploys a single virtual appliance (VA), that is, the entire solution is provided in each VA.

As many as up to 8 VAs can be deployed with this type of deployment.

Scaling

This deployment could only be scaled up to a certain extent. If it is scaled beyond this, separate instances are needed to be deployed, which do not share the UI or data.

This deployment is built on the GemFire federated cluster that supports sharing of data and the UI. Data resiliency is done through GemFire partitioning.

Remote collector

Remote collectors are supported in vCOps 5.x, but with the installable version only. These remote collectors require a Windows or Linux base OS.

The same VA is used for the remote collector simply by specifying the role during the configuration.

Installable/standalone option

It is required that customers own MSSQL or Oracle database.

No capacity planning or vSphere UI is provided with this type of deployment.

This deployment leverages built-in databases.

It uses the same code base as used in the VA.

Many of these major differences will be discussed in detail in later chapters. However, the ability to support new scaled out and highly available architectures will require an administrator to consider which model is right for their environment before a vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 migration or rollout begins.

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