VMware vRealize Operations Essentials
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VMware vRealize Operations Essentials

Matthew Steiner

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VMware vRealize Operations Essentials

Matthew Steiner

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Harness the power of VMware vRealize Operations to efficiently manage your IT infrastructure

About This Book

  • Extract the optimum performance, availability, and capacity of your IT infrastructure with the help of vRealise Operations Manager
  • Leverage the power of strategic reports to drive tactful decision-making within the IT department
  • A pragmatic guide to proficiently manage your applications and storage

Who This Book Is For

If you are a vSphere administrator and wish to optimize your virtual environment, this book is your go-to guide on vRealize Operations. As a vSphere administrator, it is assumed that you have a good understanding of both physical and virtual infrastructure. A basic knowledge of application monitoring and log analysis would be useful when we dive into the capabilities of the solution.

What You Will Learn

  • Architect, design, and install vRealize Operations
  • Migrate from the previous vCenter Operations Manager 5.x version, configure vR Ops policies, and create custom groups
  • Use out-of-the-box Dashboards, Views, and Reports and create your own customized Dashboards, Views, and Reports
  • Apply the Alerting framework of Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions, and create your own Alerting content
  • Leverage the power of Capacity Planning to maximize the utilization of your virtual infrastructure
  • Manage the rest of your infrastructure, including storage and applications, with vRealize Operations Management Packs
  • Extend the solution with vRealize Hyperic and Log Insight

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This book is a pragmatic, step-by-step guide that will quickly build your knowledge of the key capabilities of vRealize Operations. As well as learning about the solution, we will provide you with real-world examples that will help you customize and enhance your virtual environment.

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Jahr
2015
ISBN
9781785284755

VMware vRealize Operations Essentials


Table of Contents

VMware vRealize Operations Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Instant updates on new Packt books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager
A look at vRealize Operations Manager
Operational disciplines addressed by vRealize Operations
Performance
Analytics
Content
Dynamic thresholds and hard thresholds
Capacity
Capacity models
Capacity projects
Configuration and compliance
Architecture, scalability, and resilience
Appliance nodes and components
Architecture
Scalability
vRealize Operations editions and licensing
Editions
vRealize Operations Standard Edition
vRealize Operations Advanced Edition
vRealize Operations Enterprise Edition
Licensing
Mixing licensing
Summary
2. Install, Configure, and Administer vRealize Operations Manager
Planning for installation
Product compatibility
Architecture
Sizing
Overall Scaling Table
Sizing Guide – basic
Sizing Guide – advanced
Scaling up and scaling out
High Availability
Installing vRealize Operations Manager
Deploy the vRealize Operations nodes
Establish the cluster
Creating the Master node
Add Data nodes
Configure High Availability
Starting the cluster
Finalizing initial configuration
Configure the vSphere solution
Configuring the vCenter adapter
Configuring the vCenter Python Adapter
Defining monitoring goals
Migrating from vCenter Operations 5.8.x
Configuring groups and policies
Policies
Base Settings policy
Other policies
Default policy
Creating a new policy
Custom groups
Creating a Custom Group and applying a policy
Managing vRealize Operations
Administration panel
Admin UI
Summary
3. Dashboards, Badges, and Widgets
The vRealize Operations UI
Orientation and navigation
Home screen
Alerts
Environment
Groups and applications
Inventory Trees
Content
Administration
Object search
Dashboards overview
Recommendations dashboard
Badges
Health badge
Risk badge
Efficiency badge
Badge state
Object Details dashboard
Summary tab
Alerts
Analysis
Troubleshooting
Symptoms
Timeline
Events
All Metrics
Details
Environment
Projects
Reports
Out-of-the-box and Custom dashboards
Anatomy of a Custom dashboard
vSphere Solution dashboards
Widgets
Selection widgets
Visualization widgets
The View widget
Other widgets
Exploring the New Custom Dashboard workspace
Summary
4. Views and Reports
An overview of Views and Reports
Views
Building Custom Views
The List View
Preview source
The Trend View
Distribution View
Other Views
Refining Views
Managing Views
Using Views in Dashboards
Reports
Built-in Reports
Creating and scheduling reports
Creating reports on an ad hoc basis
Scheduling reports
Building a Report Template
Managing reports
Summary
5. Alerts, Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions
Alerts overview
Alerts and content
Alert Definitions
Symptom Definitions
Symptom Criticality
Metric/Property Symptom Definitions
Creating a metric symptom
Property Symptom Definitions
Creating a Property Symptom Definition
Message Event Symptom Definitions
Fault Symptom Definitions
Metric Event Symptom Definitions
Recommendations
Creating a Recommendation
Actions
Alerts
vSphere Hardening Guidelines alerts
Creating a new Alert Definition
Viewing and managing Alerts
Viewing Alerts
Managing Alerts
Summary
6. Capacity Planning and Capacity Projects
Capacity planning for virtual infrastructure
Principles of Demand and Allocation capacity planning models
Resource dimensions
Overallocation
Selecting a capacity planning model
Crafting your Capacity Planning policies
Modifying your Default Policy
Capacity planning dashboards, views, and reports
The Capacity Remaining dashboard
The Time Remaining dashboard
Reclaimable Capacity dashboard
Configuring Policy for Reclaimable Capacity
Summary metrics
Capacity Views and Reports
Virtual Machine views
Host, Datastore, and Cluster views
Capacity Projects
Adding a Capacity Project
Combining and committing Capacity Projects
Other Capacity Project Visualizations
Capacity Projects and days remaining
Summary
7. vRealize Operations Manager Solutions
Management Packs overview
Management Pack types and entitlement
Management Pack content
Solution Exchange
Installing Management Packs
Downloading the Management Pack code and documentation
Installing the Management Pack
Upgrading vRealize Operations
Upgrade Code and Release Notes
Performing the upgrade
Summ...

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