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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By : Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris
Book Image

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)

Putting it all together

Before creating custom groups, group types must be defined. Group types are what will bind super metrics to custom groups and will help you organize categories of groups in vRealize Operations.

Because a group type is required when creating a custom group, it must be created in advance. Once the custom group is created, the group type can only be changed if the custom group is cloned.

For example, let's say we want to logically organize things into two group types: by organizational or business units and by application or server roles. In the Organizational Business Units group type, we want to have custom groups where we group objects by department or cloud tenant, such as All Development VMs, All Development DB VMs or All Cloud TenantA VMs.

In the Application and Server Roles object type, we want to have custom groups where we group objects by...