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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

Dashboards overview


Most of the information in vRealize Operations is displayed back to you via Dashboards. There are three main types of dashboards that should be considered:

  • Management Pack Dashboard: When you install Management Packs, they generally come with one or more dashboards. These are designed to visualize the objects being managed by the Management Packs, in the most effective way possible.

    These dashboards are constructed using widgets and can be readily modified to meet your specific requirements.

  • Custom Dashboards: These are dashboards created by vRealize Operations users. These are usually created from scratch; however, it is also common to, say, clone a Management Pack dashboard and use it as a starting point for a new dashboard that you may want to create.

  • Object Details: Whenever you select an object and go to its object details screen, you can consider it to be a dashboard for that specific object. This dashboard has a number of tabs for managing each object. These will...