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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


The alerting framework in vRealize Operations is a very powerful feature of the solution. The ability of Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions to come together to create meaningful and actionable alerts is something that was missing from previous versions.

As with Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions, there are a lot of preconfigured Alert Definitions in Content, which are provided by the Solutions you install and configure.

If you navigate to Content | Alert Definitions you can see a list of all the Alert Definitions available.

Now, let's look at how Alert Definitions are constructed. The best way of doing this is to look at one of the more interesting out-of-the-box alerts:

  1. Navigate to Content | Alert Definitions.

  2. We will look at the alerts relating to snapshots, so, type the text snapshots into the filter box, and hit Return to filter the list.

  3. You will see there are three Alert Definitions related to snapshots. Click on Virtual machine has disk I/O latency problems caused by snapshots...