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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

Upgrading vRealize Operations


VMware releases regular minor, and major, versions of vRealize Operations. We will look at installing these updates in this section.

In general, the upgrades are a fairly straightforward task, involving the installation of a PAK file and, occasionally, an OS upgrade.

The upgrade from v6.0.3 to v6.1 is very typical, so let's step through it now.

Tip

Upgrading from vCenter Operations 5.8.x is not nearly as straightforward as the vRealize Operations upgrade from v6.03 to v6.1 described later.

The upgrade from vCenter Operations is, in fact, a side-by-side migration. You start by installing a vRealize Operations 6.0.3 cluster and then use the Installation Wizard to migrate from vCenter Operations 5.8.x. Full instructions are provided in the installation documentation; however, if you have a complex implementation, I recommend engaging VMware's Professional Services Organisation (PSO) to assist.

There is no direct upgrade path from v5.8.x to v6.1 or higher. You first need...