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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

Policies and End Point Operations


The number of metrics that can be made available by applications can be quite staggering. For example, with Microsoft SQL Solution for vRealize Operations, there are hundreds of metrics available.

Tip

All the metrics for a given Solution Pack are typically listed in the installation documentation—in the case of the Microsoft SQL Solution for vRealize Operations, they take up about half of the 24-page document!

With the quantity of collected metrics being key to the sizing and performance of vRealize Operations, the Solution Pack authors typically only configure a subset of the metrics to be collected, out-of-the-box, by vRealize Operations. This approach also helps with "noise"—sometimes, too much information can be overload and unnecessary.

At times, there will be metrics, however, that you want to monitor which are not being collected. For example, your DBAs may have specific KPIs that they need to maintain, that are determined by a specific set of metrics...