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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

Log ingestion


Now that your vRealize Log Insight platform is established, you can start sending logs to the platform. There are three main methods to do so:

  • vSphere Integration: vCenters and Hosts send all their logs

  • Agents: Agents are installed on Windows and Linux to send files or event logs

  • Syslog: Any device running Syslog can add vRealize Log Insight as a Syslog destination

Logging in

To access vRealize Log Insight, enter the IP Address or FQDN of your vRealize Log Insight instance into your browser and accept the self-signed certificate if required. The login screen will appear—for now, only the Admin account is configured so use that along with the password that you set in the Establishing a new Deployment section earlier.

As no systems have yet been configured to send logs, the following wizard will show when you log into vRealize Log Insight for the first time.

vSphere integration and log ingestion

The first thing most administrators will configure is integration with vSphere to collect...