Before we move on to look at what vRH brings to the table, we are going to look at how to create an application in vROps. This feature is available in the previous versions as well, and allows us to create containers or objects that can contain a group of virtual machines or other objects in different tiers. This new application object can then be managed as a single object, and have all its health badges and alarms aggregated from the child objects of the group.

For example, we could create a standard 3-tier application with a web app and database tier or we could just have a single-tier application. There is really no limit to how we can configure applications, and it is down to what will best fit the application that you want to monitor.

By creating applications, vROps allows the application teams to monitor the health of the application as a whole and gives an overall view of the health of the application or entire platform, as well as the individual objects if needed...