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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)

Defining a vRealize Operations solution

vRealize Operations solutions extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by integrating with external management tools.

Some solutions are delivered with vRealize Operations. Other solutions can be added as management packs. Solutions that are delivered as management packs include dashboards, reports, alerts, and data adapters. Data adapters are used by vRealize Operations to manage communication and integration with other products, applications, and functionalities:

Once the solution management pack is installed and data adapters are configured, you can use vRealize Operations analytics and alerting tools. To download a solution for vRealize Operations, go to the VMware Solution Exchange web portal.

Let's take a deeper look into it as an example of the out-of-the-box solutions in vRealize Operations. The VMware vSphere solution...