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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)

Installing solutions

Let's now have a look at installing a solution. Just like in previous versions of vRealize Operations, solutions are simple to install. The solution we are installing here is the vSphere NSX Solution:

  1. The first step to install a solution is to navigate to the Administration section and select Solutions. There we will be able to see the installed solutions. At the top of the page, we will find a green plus () icon. Click it to add a solution:
  1. This will open up the Add Solution window. In the Select Solution section, click browse navigate to browse, and select a solution. This will be a PAK file. We have the option to select force install. This is used if the solution already exists and we need to overwrite it completely.

If you are installing a new version of an already existing solution, you have the option to override any changes to the default...