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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.

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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Operations Essentials
VMware vRealize Operations Essentials
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager
Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager
A look at vRealize Operations Manager
Operational disciplines addressed by vRealize Operations
Architecture, scalability, and resilience
vRealize Operations editions and licensing
Summary
2
Install, Configure, and Administer vRealize Operations Manager
Install, Configure, and Administer vRealize Operations Manager
Planning for installation
Installing vRealize Operations Manager
Configure the vSphere solution
Migrating from vCenter Operations 5.8.x
Configuring groups and policies
Managing vRealize Operations
Summary
3
Dashboards, Badges, and Widgets
Dashboards, Badges, and Widgets
The vRealize Operations UI
Orientation and navigation
Dashboards overview
Recommendations dashboard
Badges
Object Details dashboard
Out-of-the-box and Custom dashboards
Summary
4
Views and Reports
Views and Reports
An overview of Views and Reports
Views
Reports
Summary
5
Alerts, Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions
Alerts, Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions
Alerts overview
Symptom Definitions
Recommendations
Actions
Alerts
Viewing and managing Alerts
Summary
6
Capacity Planning and Capacity Projects
Capacity Planning and Capacity Projects
Capacity planning for virtual infrastructure
Crafting your Capacity Planning policies
Capacity planning dashboards, views, and reports
Capacity Projects
Summary
7
vRealize Operations Manager Solutions
vRealize Operations Manager Solutions
Management Packs overview
Management Pack content
Solution Exchange
Installing Management Packs
Upgrading vRealize Operations
Summary
8
vRealize Infrastructure Navigator
vRealize Infrastructure Navigator
Introduction to vRealize Infrastructure Navigator
Architecture
Deployment
Using vRealize Infrastructure Navigator
Applications in vRealize Operations
vRealize Infrastructure Navigator dashboards
Summary
9
vRealize Log Insight Integration
vRealize Log Insight Integration
Introduction to vRealize Log Insight
Installing vRealize Log Insight
Log ingestion
Content Packs
vRealize Operations Manager integration
Using vRealize Log Insight with vRealize Operations Manager
Summary
10
End Point Operations
End Point Operations
Introduction to End Point Operations
Deploying End Point Operations
Viewing your End Points in vRealize Operations
End Point Operations Solution Packs
Viewing your application end points in vRealize Operations
Policies and End Point Operations
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Matthew Steiner is an experienced presales consultant with a career stretching back over 25 years in the IT industry, the last 16 years of which have been spent providing presales support for technology vendors.

He started his career as a PC engineer in the North East of England and then spent 7 years providing technical support and working on IT projects for The Royal Bank of Scotland.

In 2000, he moved into presales, first with Compaq and then HP and IBM, working with both x86 and UNIX architectures before moving into the software industry with VMware. He is currently a Lead Systems Engineer (SE) at VMware and has spent the last 3 years as a Cloud Management Platform Specialist SE. His focus is on vRealize Operations for which he is the presales lead in the UK.

Apart from the 'day job', providing technical sales support, Matthew is a regular contributor and speaker at events and conferences such as VMworld and local VMware User Groups (VMUGs), and is VMware's technical sponsor for the Scottish VMUG.

This is Matthew's first book, although he has also authored two Hands on Labs for VMware as well as white papers and other training materials throughout his career. He also maintains a blog at SEinTheCloud.wordpress.com, where he writes about his experiences as a presales consultant and the technologies he is working with.

Thank you to Jayne for putting up with me spending many evenings and weekends writing, and thank you to our cats, Lizzie and Smithy, for distracting me at times and standing on my keyboard!

Also, thank you to all my colleagues who helped me with ideas and support, particularly Peter Von Oven, who initially inspired me to write, and has mentored me through the process. Thanks also to the VMware OneCloud and Hands on Labs teams, without those environments I could not have written this book.

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