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Implementing VMware vCenter Server

By : Kostantin Kuminsky
Book Image

Implementing VMware vCenter Server

By: Kostantin Kuminsky

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Implementing VMware vCenter Server
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. VMware vCenter Operations

This chapter focuses on vCenter Operations—the software that does real-time performance monitoring and management of the vSphere environment.

We will discuss its requirements, installation, and configuration. We will also focus on the way this software is organized and the logic behind it.

Finally, at the end of the chapter, we will talk about memory pressure and ballooning.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installing and configuring vCenter Operations

  • Evaluation tasks: badges and scores

  • Evaluation tasks: hierarchy views

  • Evaluation tasks: health details

  • Evaluation tasks: scorecards

  • Evaluation tasks: analyze using heat maps

  • Memory pressure and ballooning