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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

Installing vRealize Log Insight


One of the really great things about Log Insight is how easy it is to get up and running very quickly. Indeed, within VMware, vRealize Log Insight is considered the "poster child" for ease of installation and use.

As with any software, however, you do still need to carry out a bit of due diligence—read the release notes for the version that you are installing, do some accurate sizing, ensure that you have sufficient computing and storage resources, and ensure that you have the correct network ports opened.

Sizing and design

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, vRealize Log Insight has been designed to support ingestion of up to 180,000 events per second and 2.4 TB of log data per day. For an implementation of this scale, a reasonable amount of design and sizing would, of course, be required.

Let's look at some of the criteria and decision points to consider while sizing and designing your vRealize Log Insight solution.

The solution is, like most VMware products...