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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

Architecture


I often think of vRealize Infrastructure Navigator as an extension to vSphere, to provide the additional functionality listed in the previous section.

The solution is installed as a virtual appliance and is connected to a vCenter Server. The virtual appliance collects information from vCenter regarding the applications and services running on the hosted Virtual Machines and the TCP/UDP ports through which these applications, and services communicate.

This information is gathered directly from the Virtual Machines by VMware Tools, using the VIX API.

Tip

There is a one-to-one mapping of Virtual Infrastructure Navigator appliance to vCenter. You will need to install one appliance for every vCenter that you have.

An illustration of the entire technical architecture can be seen from the following screenshot, taken from the Virtual Infrastructure Navigator's online help documentation: