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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 Reviewers

Rebecca Fitzhugh is an independent VMware consultant and VMware Certified Instructor whose primary focus is on architecting vSphere, vRealize, and Horizon infrastructures. She is a VMware vExpert and has obtained multiple levels of certification (VCP/VCAP), acquiring nearly 10 years of experience. Prior to becoming an instructor and consultant, Rebecca served 5 years in the United States Marine Corps where she assisted in the build-out and administration of multiple enterprise networks residing on virtual infrastructure. Her book, vSphere Virtual Machine Management, was published by Packt Publishing. You can follow her on Twitter at @rebeccafitzhugh.

Brian Ragazzi has been in the IT industry for more than 15 years, with experience of a wide variety of hardware, application delivery, data center virtualization, application development, cloud advisory services, and software engineering. He holds several certifications from Citrix, EMC, Microsoft, and VMware.

Brian has reviewed and contributed to VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook as well as numerous white papers and solution guides.

He is a Cloud Solutions Consulting engineer at EMC, currently working with the EMC Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution, and specializes in Software Defined Data Center, IT automation, and day-2 operations.

Brian can be found online at http://brianragazzi.com or on Twitter @BrianPRagazzi.

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