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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)

Design considerations

Let's take a look at some high availability and scalability considerations we must be aware of when designing for vRealize Operations architecture. We will also take a look at what role vRealize Operations remote collector nodes and collector groups can play in a design.

To HA or not to HA?

You have to have a good grasp of the geographical layout of the infrastructure, including remote offices and data centers that you want to monitor.

'You should also consider the number and type of objects for which you want to collect data, which includes the type and number of adapters installed. Determine whether you want to enable high availability.

Based on that information you can determine what type...