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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)

Who this book is for

Mastering vRealize Operations aims to help readers gain a deep understanding of VMware vRealize Operations and learn how to apply the product to everyday operations management use cases in the best way. This book aims to move beyond the standard product documentation and explain both why and how vRealize Operations should be deployed, configured, and used in your own environment.

Although this book is aimed at mastering vRealize Operations, expert knowledge of vRealize Operations is not a required. The various chapters vary in the requirement of skill level and expertise, as well as in the useful theory versus practical step-by-step content. We expect this book to be useful for the following people:

  • Systems administrators responsible for the day-to-day smooth running of a virtualized enterprise IT environment
  • Infrastructure architects and engineers responsible for designing and building solutions that improve the reliability and maintainability of virtualized environments
  • Current-day customers who want to know how to get the most out of vRealize Operations, such as what the badges actually mean and how capacity management policies should be configured for a typical production environment
  • Anyone who is keen to know more about vRealize Operations for specific reference look-ups, from badges to capacity planning and the new API