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Author Steiner, Matthew, author.

Title VMware vRealize Operations essentials : harness the power of VMware vRealize Operations to efficiently manage your IT infrastructure / Matthew Steiner ; foreword by Joe Baguley.

Publication Info. Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
text file
Series Professional expertise distilled
Professional expertise distilled.
Note Includes index.
Summary Annotation Harness the power of VMware vRealize Operations to efficiently manage your IT infrastructureAbout 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 storageWho This Book Is ForIf 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 InsightIn DetailThis 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 approachThis 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.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; What you need for this book; Chapter 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.
EditionsvRealize Operations Standard Edition; vRealize Operations Advanced Edition; vRealize Operations Enterprise Edition; Licensing; Mixing licensing; Summary; Chapter 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 clusterFinalizing 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; Chapter 3: Dashboards, Badges, and Widgets; The vRealize Operations UI; Orientation and navigation; Home screen.
AlertsEnvironment; 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; 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject VMware.
VMware.
VMware.
Virtual computer systems.
Virtual computer systems.
Cloud computing.
Cloud computing.
Business -- Data processing.
Business -- Data processing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Baguley, Joe, writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Steiner, Matthew. VMware vRealize Operations Essentials. Birmingham : Packt Publishing, ©2015
ISBN 9781785283567 (electronic book)
1785283561 (electronic book)
1785284754
9781785284755
9781785284755
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