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VMware vRealize Operations Essentials

By : Matthew Steiner
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VMware vRealize Operations Essentials

By: Matthew Steiner

Overview of this book

This book will enable you to deliver on the operational disciplines of Performance, Health, Capacity, Configuration, and Compliance by making the best use of solutions provided by vRealize Operations. Starting with architecture, design, and sizing, we will ensure your implementation of vRealize Operations is a success. We will dive into the utilization of a solution to manage your vSphere infrastructure. Then, we will employ out-of-the-box Dashboards and the very powerful Views and Reporting functionality of vRealize Operations to create your custom dashboards and address your reporting requirements. Next, we go through the Alerting framework and how Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions are used to achieve efficient operations. Later you will master the topic of Capacity Planning, where we look at how important it is to craft appropriate policies to match your requirements, and we’ll consider attitude toward capacity risk, which will aid you to build future project requirements into your capacity plans. Finally, we will look at extending the solution to manage Storage, Applications, and other IT infrastructures using Management Packs from Solution Exchange, as well as how the solution can be enhanced with the integration of Log Insight.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Operations Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

A look at vRealize Operations Manager


vRealize Operations Manager is the core component of vRealize Operations, which itself is a suite of integrated products that provide intelligent operational capabilities for IT departments. The solution has been built, not just to monitor and manage vSphere, but also various pieces of infrastructure, such as storage, other hypervisors, operating systems, and applications.

The components that make up vRealize Operations are:

  • vRealize Operations Manager

  • vRealize Hyperic and End Point Operations

  • vRealize Infrastructure Navigator

  • vRealize Configuration Manager

Other solutions within the vRealize family of products that integrate tightly with vRealize Operations are:

  • vRealize Log Insight

  • vRealize Business Standard

  • vRealize Automation

The main focus of this book is the vRealize Operations Manager component of vRealize Operations. However, we will look at vRealize Log Insight integration in Chapter 9, vRealize Log Insight Integration and at End Point Operations in Chapter 10, End Point Operations.

Integrations with the other components of the vRealize portfolio, or with other hardware such as EMC, Dell, or Hitachi storage arrays, are provided by Management Packs. Management Packs and VMware's Solution Exchange will be covered in Chapter 7, vRealize Operations Manager Solutions.