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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)

Using operators in super metrics

Now that we’ve seen how to build our own super metrics, let's take a look at some of the operators we have available to supercharge our calculations.

Let's get back to the VM OS Uptime % example we have at the beginning of the chapter and recap it quickly. In vRealize Operations, you can get VM OS uptime via the OS Uptime metric. The metric shows an ever-growing number until a reboot of the monitored object takes place. This means that for any given time period you will end up with some number that might be very high or very low, and as such it becomes very hard to make sense of it in terms of uptime statistics.

We can use super metrics and the available comparison operators to turn these data points into something useful in the context of uptime statistics, which we can use for management or customer reports:

${this, metric=sys...