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VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials

By : Lauren Malhoit
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VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials

By: Lauren Malhoit

Overview of this book

<p>vCenter Operations Manager offers a powerful solution to administrating a large virtual machine deployment, allowing you to automate processes and plan your resource capacity to maximize hardware efficiency.</p> <p>This book contains step-by-step tutorials, detailed descriptions, and real-world solutions that will allow you to overcome the complexity of a powerful but often overwhelming suite of tools for the modern network administrator. Install, configure, troubleshoot, and expand your virtualization deployment with this essential handbook.</p> <p>The vCenter Operations Management Suite contains so much information within one solution that it can be intimidating. It can make administrators feel overwhelmed or think that they are not using it properly. This book is a practical guide to using vCenter Operations Manager for the everyday administrator. It not only gives step-by-step instructions but also makes admins more comfortable with the user interface so they can maintain, troubleshoot, and design their infrastructure and virtual environment in the most efficient way possible.</p> <p>VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials guides you through installing and configuring vCenter Operations Manager and shows you how to maximize its potential. vCenter Operations Manager helps you maintain and troubleshoot your VMware environment as well as your physical environment. It goes beyond using the simple alarms vCenter gives you by explaining the virtual environment and how to track, explain, and find solutions to anomalous behavior. You're taught how to deploy the power of vCops to maximize your ability to plan capacity and design your environment, enabling more efficient use of your hardware than ever before.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


We've been over a typical vCenter Configuration Manager setup and also how to connect vC Ops to VCM. Once it was all connected, we saw how VCM inserts a Compliance badge into our vC Ops UI. We can see change events and compliance rules for any object within our virtual environment as long as we have proper rules, templates, and mappings. Some of the templates can be downloaded from VMware and third-party sources, while others can be created by the administrator.

The Compliance score ultimately affects the Risk major badge, but keep in mind that a lot of this is user defined. So, be careful while mapping templates if they're not applicable or perhaps should be weighted less than other templates. VCM is a pretty complicated solution in that there is just so much to it. It would be highly recommended to research VCM thoroughly before applying any changes to our production environment.

Even more value is offered by the integration and use of vC Ops with VCM. Take the example of seeing...