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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

Recommendations


As mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, alerts are comprised of Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions. Recommendations are a list of recommendations, of things you should carry out when an alert is triggered.

For example, if a virtual machine experiences high read or write latency, there are a number of things you can do to resolve the problem:

  • Use Storage I/O Controls (SIOC) to govern I/O to the data store

  • Add more IOPS to the underlying physical storage

  • Perform a vSphere Storage vMotion to move the virtual machine's VMDK to a data store with more I/O capacity

What I have just listed are recommendations, and this is exactly what is meant by vRealize Operations Recommendations.

If you navigate to Content | Recommendations, you will see the list of Recommendations available out of the box:

The recommendation itself can be as simple as Add more hosts to cluster. Alternatively, it could be an extremely detailed and verbose description of a series of actions you need to carry...