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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

Crafting your Capacity Planning policies


Now that we have described the differences between Allocation- and Demand-based models, let's take a look at how you can reflect your requirements in your Default Policy. There are number of different ways to craft your policies.

A set of out-of-the-box policies is available, which can be used as a starting point, or you can modify the default policy, which was created during installation when the vSphere Solution was installed and configured.

Given that you probably want to fine-tune your policy, modifying your default policy is generally the best way to start.

Modifying your Default Policy

Here are the steps that you can follow to set your Default Policy to meet your Capacity Planning imperatives.

  1. Navigate to Administration | Policies, and select the Policy Library tab.

  2. Select vSphere Solution Default Policy (dated), and click on the Pencil icon to edit it.

    The Policy section for Capacity Planning is in 3. Analysis Settings.

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