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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

Capacity planning for virtual infrastructure


Before we start looking at the capacity planning features in the vRealize Operations solution, it is worth taking a step back to understand how you want to account for capacity in your environment.

This is fundamental to ensuring that vRealize Operations delivers on your organization's capacity planning operational imperatives. I spend a lot of time with vSphere administrators talking through this, as it can have a profound effect on how capacity is reported in vRealize Operations.

Principles of Demand and Allocation capacity planning models

The key to effective capacity planning, in a virtual infrastructure, is deciding where and when you want to use a Demand-based model, and where you want to use a model based on Allocation.

To understand this better, let's consider a typical virtual machine with the following resources:

  • 2x vCPUs

  • 4GB RAM

  • 40GB disk

How much capacity is this virtual machine consuming?

The answer to this question can vary enormously, depending...