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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

Management Packs overview


The vRealize Operations platform has always been designed with extensibility in mind. With the release of vRealize Operations 6, there was a step change in the quantity, and quality, of Management Packs available. A lot of content, now an important part of vRealize Operations, is provided by and within the Management Packs.

Tip

The terms Solutions and Management Packs are interchangeable in vRealize Operations. You will generally see them described as Solutions in the UI, and as Management Packs in Solutions Exchange, and much of the documentation. For the rest of this chapter, we will solely refer to them as Management Packs.

So far in this book, we have only used the vSphere Management Pack that is shipped with vRealize Operations. Although we didn't have to install it, if you watch the vRealize Operations installation carefully, you will see that it is a separate component that is installed during the vRealize Operations installation.

The vSphere Management Pack...