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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)

Understanding the Risk badge

Since Health is looking at the current issues in the environment, the Risk badge is looking at future issues and health of the environment or object. If there are no immediate issues to address from the Health badge, Risk should be looked at next.

As was the case with the Health badge, the Risk badge is now derived from Alert and symptom definitions.

There are four minor badges that relate to Risk; Capacity, Time Remaining, Stress, and Compliance.

The accuracy of Risk, Capacity Remaining, and Time Remaining for your environment are heavily affected by what policies are in effect. Capacity Management will be discussed in detail in Chapter 7, Capacity Management Made Easy.

The Capacity Remaining badge

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