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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

Applications in vRealize Operations


Now that the applications in your environment have been mapped, and Virtual Machines grouped together, they are surfaced in vRealize Operations as a new object type, Application Group.

As well as these Application Group constructs, a lot of the metadata from vRealize Infrastructure Navigator is also added to Virtual Machines, so can be used throughout the vRealize Operations solution.

Application Group Objects

You can view your Application Group objects by navigating to Environment | Custom Groups. You will see a new Application Group folder, which you can expand to see your defined applications as shown in the following screenshot:

These Application Groups work in exactly the same way as the Custom Groups we worked with in Chapter 2, Install, Configure, and Administer vRealize Operations Manager, with the exception that they are created, and destroyed, automatically based on data collection from vRealize Infrastructure Navigator.

If new applications are discovered...