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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 Projects


In the final part of this chapter on capacity planning, we will look at the new feature introduced into vRealize Operations 6—Capacity Projects.

In the previous versions of vCenter Operations, there was the capability to perform a "What if" analysis with respect to capacity planning. The purpose was to help the administrator understand the impact on the capacity model of adding or removing workload or resources.

The principle was a good one; however, it was relatively inflexible, and the "What if" scenarios could not be saved or committed into the capacity plans.

The Capacity Projects capability is designed to overcome this weakness.

With Capacity Projects, you can take future known changes to your environment and apply them to your capacity model in order to understand if you are going to have a shortfall of capacity and where your capacity pinch points are.

You can additionally Commit these projects to your environment. This means that their impact is included in the Days...