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Implementing VMware vCenter Server

By : Kostantin Kuminsky
Book Image

Implementing VMware vCenter Server

By: Kostantin Kuminsky

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Implementing VMware vCenter Server
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Evaluation tasks


In the following section, we will review the basic evaluation tasks and the steps involved in each of them.

After logging in to UI, you will see the main dashboard that contains three sections. The section to the left has a hierarchy of available resources in your environment. It looks similar to vCenter's view of Hosts and Clusters, and additionally, lists the storage resources under each host that they are connected to, as shown in the following screenshot:

The main section in the center contains information of available diagnostics. It has six main tabs, many of which have additional tabs and menus inside. Data shown in the main section is related to the object selected on the left section of program window.

The section to the right contains warnings and alerts as well as baselines for three main metrics: health, risk, and efficiency.

Both the left and right-hand sections can be hidden.

Badges and scores

In vCenter Operations Manager, the virtual environment can be viewed from...