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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

An overview of Views and Reports


In the previous versions of vRealize Operations, formally called vCenter Operations, the reporting capability was very limited. There were some good out-of-the-box reports in the vSphere UI; however, they were not easily customizable and the Custom UI had no reporting available at all.

With the release of vRealize Operations, this has been transformed, with the addition of the following three new capabilities:

  • Views: A View is the visualization of information held in vRealize Operations. It can take a number of forms or Presentations, such as a Table, List, or Pie Chart, to show the information in the way you want it to be shown.

  • Reports: The views that you create can be incorporated into Reports. A Report is how you get information out of vRealize Operations. It is, in essence, a set of views that are exported in the .PDF or .CSV format. Reports can be run on an ad hoc basis, or they can be scheduled.

  • Dashboards: We covered Dashboards in Chapter 3, Dashboards...