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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager

Mastering vRealize Operations Manager

By : Scott Norris
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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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Conventions
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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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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

Super metric types

Now that we are ready to get into the detail of super metrics, let's quickly discuss the following three main types of super metrics:

  • Rollup

  • Generic resource

  • Specific resource/Pass-through

Rollup

A rollup super metric is the most common example of a super metric. It uses transformation type functions such as sum, avg, min, count, and so on, and then applies them through a looping function of all child objects matching the object and attribute type. The result of this calculation is then available as a super metric on the object where the super metric is applied.

Let's go through an example using Datastore Free Disk Space (cluster level). Now, before you e-mail me and point out that this metric already exists by default in the vCenter adapter, and that there is no need to create a super metric, I will point out that you are correct; however, the following figure well illustrates the point of rollups. We will go through a more unique example of this later. Take a look at the following...

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