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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

Badges


vRealize Operations describes the state of your infrastructure using Badges.

Every object has the three major badges of Health, Risk, and Efficiency calculated for them.

Every object can also have minor badges; however, not all of these badges are created or calculated for every object type. It is the job of the Solution or Management Pack to decide whether the badge is calculated and to describe how it is calculated.

For example, the Capacity Remaining badge for a storage object may be calculated based on the percentage remaining storage (GB), whereas for a Cluster object it needs to be based on a combination of CPU, memory, storage, and network.

Note

The vSphere solution has all badges calculated for all object types. It will be some of the Management Packs that do not have all badges calculated. This is usually because it is just not possible or does not make sense.

For example, consider a region object type within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Pack.

The Health badge can be...