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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

Managing vRealize Operations


Administration of vRealize Operations is done in two places, the Administration panel of the vRealize Operations UI or the Admin UI.

Administration panel

We used the administration panel earlier, when we were installing the vSphere solution and creating our first policy. The panel is also used for:

  • Licensing: Installing vRealize Operations licenses and applying them to the objects.

  • Credentials: A central point for managing the credentials you create for your solutions.

  • Inventory Explorer: A list of all the objects in the environment. You can manually delete and edit the groups of objects here.

  • Object Relationships: There are hierarchical relations between the objects, and these are generally created by the Solutions you install. You can view and change those relationships here.

  • Maintenance Schedules: You can put objects into ad hoc or scheduled maintenance mode. When in maintenance mode, their metrics are not collected and they are not alerted on. This is where...