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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

Management Pack content


When extensibility was first introduced into vCenter Operations, the only thing initially provided was an adapter. This adapter was a piece of code that would connect to the object to be managed and collect metric data.

Over time, this has improved substantially and Management Packs now have the following capabilities built in:

  • Adapters: There is still an adapter in the Management Pack. This will generally connect to the management interface of an object type to be managed. For example, HP's Storefront Analytics Management Pack connects to HP 3PAR or HP StoreVirtual systems.

    The adapter collects metrics, properties, and events at a regular interval, usually every 5 minutes. The adapter also collects the information required to allow vRealize Operations to understand the relationships between different object types from different Management Packs.

    Not all adapters are collectors. In some cases, the object being managed will push the metrics and properties to the vRealize...