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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

Content Packs


The most valuable part of vRealize Log Insight is Content, and this is provided by way of Content Packs.

Without these Content Packs, the solution would simply be a Log Aggregator with a very useful, high-performing, and intuitive UI. Content Packs add the much needed intellectual property around the applications and devices that they represent.

vRealize Log Insight showing the vSphere Dashboard

Out of the box, the vSphere Content Pack is included, and if you navigate to Dashboards, you will see the VMware – vSphere dashboards created by this Content Pack.

Adding additional Content Packs

To add Content Packs, you first need to navigate to the Content Pack marketplace.

  1. Click on the Menu icon on the top right-hand corner of the UI.

  2. Select Content Packs. This will take you to the Content Pack Marketplace.

Here, you will see all the Content Packs that have been written for vRealize Log Insight. You can install as many Content Packs as you like, and there is no additional charge for them...