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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

Capacity planning dashboards, views, and reports


The capacity planning capabilities of vRealize Operations are one of the most powerful features of the solution. They will help you to do the following:

  • Never run out of capacity

  • Always know how much additional workload can be supported

  • Know when you are going to run out of capacity and the resource dimension that is most constrained

  • Understand where you have the most capacity and where you are the most constrained

  • Improve the utilization of the compute and storage investments that you have made

  • Optimize your Virtual Machine density

  • Identify where you are wasting resources

You will achieve these by using a combination of dashboards, views, and reports.

I always start with the Capacity Remaining dashboard.

The Capacity Remaining dashboard

Every object in vRealize Operations can have capacity remaining and a badge score calculated. The Capacity Remaining dashboard displays the details of this analysis.

Tip

Some object types within vRealize Operations do...