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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

Solution Exchange


Extensibility content for all of VMware's management products is available on their Solution Exchange website at http://solutionexchange.vmware.com.

As can be seen in the preceding screenshot, VMware Solution Exchange is grouped by product. Selecting vRealize Operations Management will bring up all the available vRealize Operations Management Packs.

The Management Packs are then subsequently grouped into the following:

  • Extensibility Tools: These are the Management Packs that allow you to manage objects where there is not a Management Pack already built.

    Tip

    The Extensibility Tools are generally fairly complex to install and configure – if you do have the requirement to collect data from objects, for which there is not an out of the box Management Pack, it is likely that you will need to engage VMware's Professional Services Organization (PSO) to help with the integration work.

  • Advanced Management Packs: These are for installation on the Advanced Edition of vRealize Operations...