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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

Deployment


The Virtual Infrastructure Navigator virtual appliance is deployed using the vSphere Web Client. You will gain access to the appliance in the OVF form if you are entitled to the Advanced, or Enterprise Editions of vRealize Operations, or if you have registered for a vRealize Operations evaluation.

To deploy the appliance, follow these steps:

  1. In the vSphere web client, right-click on the cluster or datacenter in which you want to deploy the virtual appliance, and select Deploy OVF Template to start the deployment wizard.

  2. Browse for the installation OVF file, and click on Next to continue.

  3. Review the details of the template, and click on Next to continue.

  4. Accept the EULA, and click on Next to continue.

  5. Provide a Name for your virtual appliance, and then select a folder or datacenter, in which to deploy it. Click on Next to continue.

  6. Select a datastore with sufficient capacity, and choose the virtual disk format. Thin provisioning is fine for this appliance—it will require 2 GB if thin...