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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By : Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris
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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By: Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris

Overview of this book

In the modern IT world, the criticality of managing the health, efficiency, and compliance of virtualized environments is more important than ever. With vRealize Operations Manager 6.6, you can make a difference to your business by being reactive rather than proactive. Mastering vRealize Operations Manager helps you streamline your processes and customize the environment to suit your needs. You will gain visibility across all devices in the network and retain full control. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and support images, you will quickly master the ability to manipulate your data and display it in a way that best suits you and your business or technical requirements. This book not only covers designing, installing, and upgrading vRealize Operations 6.6, but also gives you a deep understanding of its building blocks: badges, alerts, super metrics, views, dashboards, management packs, and plugins. With the new vRealize Operations 6.6 troubleshooting capabilities, capacity planning, intelligent workload placement, and additional monitoring capabilities, this book is aimed at ensuring you get the knowledge to manage your virtualized environment as effectively as possible.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

What are policies?

A policy allows you to modify the way that vRealize Operations analyzes and presents data in the dashboard and in various views and reports. A policy allows you to adapt the appearance and operation of vRealize Operations to your environment and preferences.

A policy includes the following settings:

  • Metrics or properties for different object types (such as virtual machine, host, or Datastore)
  • Symptom and alert definitions
  • Badge threshold definitions
  • Buffers, such as provisioning time buffers, and VMware vSphere® High Availability buffers

A comprehensive set of content is readily available when you install and configure vRealize Operations. You might have to customize some of the content to satisfy certain business requirements or to adhere to your company’s policies.

For example, you can create custom policies to support service-level agreements...