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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

Viewing your End Points in vRealize Operations


One of the really useful things with vRealize Operations is how it creates relationships between your virtual machine objects and the new operating system objects.

To take a look at this, in vRealize Operations, navigate to a virtual machine on which you have an End Point Operations agent installed. Select the Troubleshooting | All Metrics dashboard, and you will see the relationship tree, as in the following screenshot.

  1. Notice the lightly dashed red box around the selected Virtual Machine object. This means everything else in the view is in the context of this object.

    For example, the metric selector will allow the selection of metrics for this object to be displayed in the metrics panel.

  2. The End Point Operations object appears as a child of the Virtual Machine.

  3. Clicking on this object would change the view's context—you would see the operating system metrics in the metric selector. This would allow you to see metric graphs of both the Virtual Machine...