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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Free Chapter

Going Ahead with vRealize Operations

Going Ahead with vRealize Operations

ROI with vRealize Operations

What can vRealize Operations do?

vRealize Operations key component architecture

vRealize Operations node types

Multi-node deployment, HA, and scalability

High Availability in vRealize Operations 6.6

Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs

Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs

Design considerations

Deployment examples

Seems too complex? Need help?

Initial Setup and Configuration

Initial Setup and Configuration

Meeting the requirements

Installation steps, formats, and types

Installation and upgrade

Extending vRealize Operations with Management Packs and Plugins

Extending vRealize Operations with Management Packs and Plugins

Collecting additional data

Defining a vRealize Operations solution

Overview of popular solutions

Installing solutions

Importing data with a REST API

Badges

What are vRealize Operations badges?

Understanding the Health badge

Understanding the Risk badge

Understanding the Efficiency badge

Getting a Handle on Alerting and Notifications

Getting a Handle on Alerting and Notifications

What are symptoms, recommendations, and actions?

Creating symptoms, recommendations, and alerts

What are policies?

Alert notifications

Capacity Management Made Easy

Capacity Management Made Easy

Resource capacity

Capacity management for vRealize Operations policies

Defining the correct capacity management policies for your environment

Custom Datacenter

Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes

Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes

What is business-oriented reporting?

Tags, application groups, and custom groups

Putting it all together

Super Metrics Made Super Easy

Super Metrics Made Super Easy

What are super metrics and when do I use them?

What's new with super metrics?

Metric terminology and definitions

Super metric types

Building your own super metrics

Associating super metrics with objects

Using operators in super metrics

Comparing super metrics to views

Creating Custom Views

Creating Custom Views

What's new in views and reports in vRealize Operations 6.6?

Views in vRealize Operations

Reports in vRealize Operations

Creating Custom Dashboards

Creating Custom Dashboards

About dashboards

Creating custom dashboards

Using vRealize Operations to Monitor Applications

Using vRealize Operations to Monitor Applications

What is Endpoint Operations Management?

Managing the Endpoint Operations Management Agent

Viewing and collecting metrics

Other Endpoint Operations Management monitoring functionalities

Leveraging vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement

Leveraging vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement

What is Intelligent Workload Placement?

The Workload Balance dashboard

Rebalancing workloads with vRealize Operations and DRS

Automated rebalancing

vRealize Automation Workload Placement with vRealize Operations

Using vRealize Operations for Infrastructure Compliance

Using vRealize Operations for Infrastructure Compliance

Integrated compliance

vSphere Hardening compliance

Monitoring compliance

PCI and HIPAA compliance

Troubleshooting vRealize Operations

Troubleshooting vRealize Operations

Self-monitoring dashboards

Troubleshooting vRealize Operations components

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Overview of popular solutions

As we mentioned before, vRealize Operations comes with some preinstalled solutions. In vRealize Operations 6.6, you can find the following solutions out of the box:

VMware vSphere
VMware vSAN
VMware vRealize Log Insight
VMware vRealize Business for Cloud
VMware vRealize Automation
Operating System/Remote Service Monitoring (End Point Operations monitoring)

Other popular solutions that you can download and install from VMware Solution Exchange include:

Storage devices
Network devices
VMware vSphere for NSX
VMware vCloud Air
VMware Horizon
VMWare vRealize Service Discovery Management Pack (SDMP)

There is also a management pack for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The preferred way to integrate vRealize Operations with AWS is through the VMware vRealize Business for Cloud solution. This is the solution that is being actively developed.

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