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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)

Profiles

vRealize Operations uses profiles to calculate how many virtual machines with the specified memory demand model can fit in your environment. You can see this calculation in the What Will Fit panel of the Capacity Remaining tab on a container object.

By clicking on each profile, you can see the profile's properties:

In addition to the default profiles, you can create custom profiles based on specific sizing requirements in your environment:

  • Custom profiles show how many more of a specified object can fit in your environment given the available capacity and object configuration
  • When creating capacity projects, you can use custom profiles in addition to the default profile

Creating custom profiles

You can create...