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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)

What is business-oriented reporting?

While vRealize Operations is an excellent forensic analysis and near-real-time virtual infrastructure monitoring solution, it is a poor solution with regard to business-oriented reporting, even with its additional performance and capacity planning capabilities. Building reports around logical business structures such as services, applications, departments, business groups, organizational units, and so on, as well as providing visibility, utilization, consumption, and performance insights to key business and application stakeholders throughout an enterprise doesn’t come out of the box in vRealize Operations.

Providing compute performance, utilization, and consumption reporting for workloads, or groups of related workloads, is a frequent and painful task for storage, network, virtualization, cloud, and application administrators, as well...