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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By : Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris
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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager - Second Edition

By: Spas Kaloferov, Chris Slater, Scott Norris

Overview of this book

In the modern IT world, the criticality of managing the health, efficiency, and compliance of virtualized environments is more important than ever. With vRealize Operations Manager 6.6, you can make a difference to your business by being reactive rather than proactive. Mastering vRealize Operations Manager helps you streamline your processes and customize the environment to suit your needs. You will gain visibility across all devices in the network and retain full control. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and support images, you will quickly master the ability to manipulate your data and display it in a way that best suits you and your business or technical requirements. This book not only covers designing, installing, and upgrading vRealize Operations 6.6, but also gives you a deep understanding of its building blocks: badges, alerts, super metrics, views, dashboards, management packs, and plugins. With the new vRealize Operations 6.6 troubleshooting capabilities, capacity planning, intelligent workload placement, and additional monitoring capabilities, this book is aimed at ensuring you get the knowledge to manage your virtualized environment as effectively as possible.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

About dashboards

A dashboard provides a visual overview of an object. You can use different widgets and views to change the focus of information.

You can create various dashboards to meet your monitoring needs. You do not have to show every dashboard on the Home page. You can choose to show a subset of dashboards. You can select one dashboard as your default starting point.

To customize built-in dashboards, ensure that you clone the built-in dashboard before modifying the clone.

Designing dashboards

One of the greatest features of vRealize Operations is of course the ability to create custom dashboards. The power in custom dashboards is being able to display relevant information to the different areas of your organization...