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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

Views


As mentioned earlier, Views are used to display data from vRealize Operations in order to help administrators understand and interpret the information available to them. There are five parts that make up a View:

  • Name and Description of the View.

  • Presentation is how the View is going to be displayed. For example, it could be a Table of objects, and their metrics or properties, or it could be a distribution of specific objects, metrics, or properties in the form of a pie chart.

    We will look at all six Presentation types:

  • Subject: This is the object type(s) that the View is going to be based on

  • Data: This is the data regarding those object types, that we are going to expose, and visualize in the View

  • Visibility: The areas in vRealize Operations that the View is going to be available in.

The foundations of compelling Views and Reports are built on how you use the Presentation types to display data in a meaningful way.

Building Custom Views

In this section, we will build some custom Views using...