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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

Alerts overview


One of the most powerful new features in vRealize Operations is the Alerting Framework. The flexibility it provides allows you to use it in a wide variety of ways. Some of the more common use cases are:

  • Alerting about performance issues, such as a virtual machine with high CPU Ready.

  • Assessing and reporting about system configuration. The example we will look at later in this chapter ensures that all your hosts have NTP configured correctly.

  • Performing actions on objects based on observed symptoms. For example, a virtual machine might experience consistently high CPU utilization, so you might want to add a further vCPU automatically.

Alerts and content

Within vRealize Operations, content is where the capabilities of the vRealize Operations Solutions or Management Packs are defined.

When you install a Solution, or Management Pack, the installation will typically install additional content, such as Alerts, Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions, relevant to the Solution's adapters...