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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)

Installation steps, formats, and types

Before we start with the actual installation, let's take a quick look at the general setup steps, the installation formats, and installation types vRealize Operations 6.6 supports.

Installation steps

When you perform a fresh installation and configuration of vRealize Operations, you will go through the following general steps:

  1. Deploy the OVF to create a master node
  2. Run initial setup to create a master node
  3. (Optional) Set up data nodes
    1. (Optional) Enable High Availability
  4. (Optional) Set up remote collector nodes
  5. Log in for the first time in the product user interface
  6. Configure the new installation
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