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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.

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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Going Ahead with vRealize Operations
Going Ahead with vRealize Operations
ROI with vRealize Operations
What can vRealize Operations do?
vRealize Operations key component architecture
vRealize Operations node types
Multi-node deployment, HA, and scalability
High Availability in vRealize Operations 6.6
Summary
2
Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs
Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs
Design considerations
Deployment examples
Seems too complex? Need help?
Summary
3
Initial Setup and Configuration
Initial Setup and Configuration
Meeting the requirements
Installation steps, formats, and types
Installation and upgrade
Summary
4
Extending vRealize Operations with Management Packs and Plugins
Extending vRealize Operations with Management Packs and Plugins
Collecting additional data
Defining a vRealize Operations solution
Overview of popular solutions
Installing solutions
Importing data with a REST API
Summary
5
Badges
Badges
What are vRealize Operations badges?
Understanding the Health badge
Understanding the Risk badge
Understanding the Efficiency badge
Summary
6
Getting a Handle on Alerting and Notifications
Getting a Handle on Alerting and Notifications
What are symptoms, recommendations, and actions?
Creating symptoms, recommendations, and alerts
What are policies?
Alert notifications
Summary
7
Capacity Management Made Easy
Capacity Management Made Easy
Resource capacity
Capacity management for vRealize Operations policies
Defining the correct capacity management policies for your environment
Projects
Custom Datacenter
Profiles
Summary
8
Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes
Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes
What is business-oriented reporting?
Tags, application groups, and custom groups
Putting it all together
Summary
9
Super Metrics Made Super Easy
Super Metrics Made Super Easy
What are super metrics and when do I use them?
What's new with super metrics?
Metric terminology and definitions
Super metric types
Building your own super metrics
Associating super metrics with objects
Using operators in super metrics
Comparing super metrics to views
Summary
10
Creating Custom Views
Creating Custom Views
What's new in views and reports in vRealize Operations 6.6?
Views in vRealize Operations
Reports in vRealize Operations
Summary
11
Creating Custom Dashboards
Creating Custom Dashboards
About dashboards
Widgets
Creating custom dashboards
Summary
12
Using vRealize Operations to Monitor Applications
Using vRealize Operations to Monitor Applications
What is Endpoint Operations Management?
Managing the Endpoint Operations Management Agent
Viewing and collecting metrics
Other Endpoint Operations Management monitoring functionalities
Summary
13
Leveraging vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement
Leveraging vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement
What is Intelligent Workload Placement?
The Workload Balance dashboard
Rebalancing workloads with vRealize Operations and DRS
Automated rebalancing
vRealize Automation Workload Placement with vRealize Operations
Summary
14
Using vRealize Operations for Infrastructure Compliance
Using vRealize Operations for Infrastructure Compliance
Integrated compliance
vSphere Hardening compliance
Monitoring compliance
PCI and HIPAA compliance
Summary
15
Troubleshooting vRealize Operations
Troubleshooting vRealize Operations
Self-monitoring dashboards
Troubleshooting vRealize Operations components
Summary
16
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Leveraging vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement

In this chapter, we will take a look at an exciting new feature in vRealize Operations called Intelligent Workload Placement, and how it can help us deal with underutilized and overutilized clusters in our environment. We will also see how it can integrate with vRealize Automation to provide the same effect for workloads provisioned through the portal.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is Intelligent Workload Placement
  • How to use the Workload Balance dashboard
  • How to rebalance workloads with vRealize Operations and DRS
  • How to automate rebalancing
  • How to optimize vRealize Automation Workload Placement with vRealize Operations
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