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VMware vRealize Operations Essentials

By : Matthew Steiner
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VMware vRealize Operations Essentials

By: Matthew Steiner

Overview of this book

This book will enable you to deliver on the operational disciplines of Performance, Health, Capacity, Configuration, and Compliance by making the best use of solutions provided by vRealize Operations. Starting with architecture, design, and sizing, we will ensure your implementation of vRealize Operations is a success. We will dive into the utilization of a solution to manage your vSphere infrastructure. Then, we will employ out-of-the-box Dashboards and the very powerful Views and Reporting functionality of vRealize Operations to create your custom dashboards and address your reporting requirements. Next, we go through the Alerting framework and how Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions are used to achieve efficient operations. Later you will master the topic of Capacity Planning, where we look at how important it is to craft appropriate policies to match your requirements, and we’ll consider attitude toward capacity risk, which will aid you to build future project requirements into your capacity plans. Finally, we will look at extending the solution to manage Storage, Applications, and other IT infrastructures using Management Packs from Solution Exchange, as well as how the solution can be enhanced with the integration of Log Insight.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Operations Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Viewing your application end points in vRealize Operations


As soon as the application plugin is installed, the related application objects will be automatically discovered in vRealize Operations. Just as they were with the operating system objects, relationships between objects will also be created.

Let's take a look at the following:

VM/OS/SQL hierarchy and SQL Metrics

  1. If we go back to Troubleshooting | All Metrics, we can now see that our virtual machine is a parent of the Windows operating system and our Windows operating system is now a parent of MSSQLSERVER.

    The MSSQLSERVER object represents the Microsoft SQL application, as a whole, that has been installed on this host.

  2. Clicking on the MSSQLSERVER object changes the metric selector context, and you can see a much wider set of metrics, including the addition of THROUGHPUT metrics.

    OS and SQL hierarchy

  3. Double-clicking on the MSSQLSERVER will change the focus of the relationship tree, and we will see all Databases and monitored SQL services...