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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By : Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris
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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By: Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris

Overview of this book

In the modern IT world, the criticality of managing the health, efficiency, and compliance of virtualized environments is more important than ever. With vRealize Operations Manager 6.6, you can make a difference to your business by being reactive rather than proactive. Mastering vRealize Operations Manager helps you streamline your processes and customize the environment to suit your needs. You will gain visibility across all devices in the network and retain full control. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and support images, you will quickly master the ability to manipulate your data and display it in a way that best suits you and your business or technical requirements. This book not only covers designing, installing, and upgrading vRealize Operations 6.6, but also gives you a deep understanding of its building blocks: badges, alerts, super metrics, views, dashboards, management packs, and plugins. With the new vRealize Operations 6.6 troubleshooting capabilities, capacity planning, intelligent workload placement, and additional monitoring capabilities, this book is aimed at ensuring you get the knowledge to manage your virtualized environment as effectively as possible.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Widgets

Although dashboards are a powerful concept, a dashboard on its own is just a blank canvas. It is the ability for a dashboard to host widgets and their associated configuration that makes the difference. Widgets display the information we want to show in a large variety of different methods.

Most widgets display metric information in the form of scores, graphs, or lists. Widgets can also be linked by interactions, which means, when an object like a virtual machine is selected in one widget, the linked widget(s) will change its data based on the selected object. Some widgets require the use of an additional metric configuration XML file to show specific information that may be required.

Types of widgets

We will now have...