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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

vRealize Operations Manager integration


vRealize Log Insight integrates with vRealize Operations Manager to deliver two key areas of additional functionality:

  • Log Data Alerts: Alerts from vRealize Log Insight can be forwarded as events to vRealize Operations in order to provide additional troubleshooting capability.

  • Launch in Context: When troubleshooting an object in vRealize Operations, an additional menu item is provided in the dashboards to launch vRealize Log Insight in context. If selected, this will navigate the administrator directly to the Interactive Analysis screen in vRealize Log Insight for that object. This will enable further troubleshooting using the unstructured log events in vRealize Log Insight.

Configuring the integration requires you to follow two steps in the following order:

  1. Install the vRealize Log Insight Management Pack.

  2. Configure the integration in vRealize Log Insight.

Installing the Log Insight Management Pack in vRealize Operations

As with all Management Packs, the...