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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

Reports


In vRealize Operations, Reports are the main way in which you export information. As with Views, Reports are available in Content. Reports have two tabs associated with them:

  • Report Templates: These are all the Report Templates that can be run

  • Generated Reports: This is a historical list of reports that have been run

As well as being accessible in Content, Reports can also be accessed via the Reports tab on each object dashboard. When accessed in this way, the Report Templates and Generated Reports are contextual to the object dashboard.

For example, if you are looking at a particular Host System, you will only see Report Templates that can be run against that Host System, and the list of Generated Reports will only show Reports that have been run against that particular Host System.

Built-in Reports

When you install vRealize Operations you will get approximately 50 Report Templates, precreated for you out of the box. They can be categorized as follows:

  • Performance: These report on how...