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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

Actions


Recommendations are a list of recommended steps to be taken to resolve a problem or alert. The Actions capability within vRealize Operations allows the vSphere administrator to act on the Recommendation. For example, for the Recommendation Add CPU Capacity to a Virtual Machine, an Action that carries out this Recommendation is associated with it.

Out-of-the-box actions are carried out using the vCenter Python Actions Adapter. This runs Python scripts against your vCenter(s) to carry out the tasks defined by the Actions.

Navigate to Content | Actions to see the list of Actions that are available:

You will see that there are 16 actions and they are all associated with a variety of object types.