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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

Object Details dashboard


When you select an object in vRealize Operations, you are generally taken to its Object Details dashboard. How you navigate there depends on where you are. Sometimes you double click on an object, sometimes you highlight it, and sometimes you click on an Object Details icon to navigate to it.

As you can see in the following screenshot, the Object Details dashboard is comprised of a number of tabs through which you manage the object:

Summary tab

This tab is, in effect, a Recommendations dashboard for the object in question. It shows the current state of Health, Risk, and Efficiency. These badges are based on the active alerts for the object, which are displayed in the middle section.

The bottom section, just like the Recommendations dashboard, shows the alerts for the descendant objects.

As can be seen in the previous dashboard for host esx-01a.copr.local, Risk is critical as there is a critical alert for the object – ESXi Host is violating vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide...