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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)

What is Intelligent Workload Placement?

Workloads are often placed suboptimally, resulting in the inefficient use of clusters and chronic resource contentions. Resolving contention by balancing resources is a difficult, time-consuming, and nonstrategic activity.

Using vRealize Operations Intelligent Workload Placement, you can visualize how your workloads are distributed and used across the environment, and you can see trends. When the workload in your environment becomes imbalanced, Intelligent Workload Placement recommends rebalance actions to resolve resource contention and improve performance of applications and infrastructure:

I will occasionally refer to vRealize Operations Intelligent Workload Placement as WLP. WLP is not an official VMware acronym.

Intelligent Workload Placement determines the best destination to run your workload by rebalancing existing workloads inside...