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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

Using vRealize Log Insight with vRealize Operations Manager


Now that we have installed and configured vRealize Log Insight, we'll take a look at how the integrations with vRealize Operations Manager are surfaced.

Orientation

We won't seek to cover "How to use" vRealize Log Insight here, as that would probably be a book in its own right! We will, however, provide an orientation of the UI in this section.

The following are the three main areas of the UI that you will be using:

  • Dashboards: Content Packs will typically install a number of vRealize Log Insight dashboards to help visualize the log events flowing into the solution.

    For example, the vSphere Content Pack comes with 23 dashboards, covering everything from performance, security, vCenter tasks and alerts, vMotions, and networking to storage, and much more!

  • Interactive analysis: You will use interactive analysis when you drill down into a subject and look at the logs in more detail or further refine your queries.

  • Administration: We have...