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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

Chapter 3. Dashboards, Badges, and Widgets

In this chapter, we will start using vRealize Operations to manage our environment. We will start with an orientation of the UI to get familiar with the structure, the dashboards, and how to navigate the environment.

While we discover the dashboards, we will learn about how badges work in vRealize Operations, what drives their behavior, and how they should be used and interpreted.

Finally, we will introduce custom dashboards and describe how they can be built up using the widgets and views that are available.

The major topics that will be covered include:

  • UI and navigation overview

  • Major badges

  • Alerts and Recommendations pane

  • Out of the Box (OOTB) dashboards

  • Custom dashboards and widget interactions