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Index
Mastering vRealize Operations Manager
Table of Contents
Mastering vRealize Operations Manager
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Other resources available
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. vROps – Introduction, Architecture, and Availability
A new, common platform design
The vRealize Operations Manager component architecture
The user interface
Collector
Controller
Analytics
Persistence
Global xDB
Alarms xDB
HIS xDB
FSDB
vRealize Operations Manager node types
The master / master replica node
The data node
The remote collector node
Multi-node deployment and high availability
The Operations Manager's migration to GemFire
GemFire sharding
Adding, removing, and balancing nodes
High availability in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0
Operations Manager 6.0 HA design considerations
How does HA and data duplication work?
Summary
2. Installing and Migrating vROps 6.0
Installation and migration
Migration overview
Deploying the vROps 6.0 virtual appliance
Configuring a new vROps instance
Fresh installation
Adding additional nodes
Scaling and high availability
Summary
3. vRealize Operations Manager Badges
What are vRealize Operations Manager badges?
Changes in badges of vROps 6.0
Badges for non-vSphere objects
Major badges are now set by definitions
Understanding the Health badge
The Workload badge
The Anomalies badge
The Fault badge
The Health badge summary
Understanding the Risk badge
The Capacity Remaining badge
The Time Remaining badge
The Stress badge
The Risk badge summary
Understanding the Efficiency badge
The Reclaimable Capacity badge
Idle VMs
Powered-off virtual machines
Oversized virtual machines
The Density badge
The Efficiency badge summary
Summary
4. The Merged UI
What has changed in the new UI?
Components that make up the Merged UI
The primary vROps sections overview
Alerts
Environment
Content
Administration
Summary
5. Policies in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0
What are policies?
Creating policies
Modular policies
Summary
6. Capacity Management Made Easy
An Introduction to capacity management for Operations Manager policies
The initial policy configuration wizard
Defining the correct capacity management policies for your environment
Resource containers
Observed versus configured metrics
Policy recommendations for containers
CPU (enabled)
Memory (enabled)
Network I/O (disabled)
Datastore I/O (disabled)
Disk space (situational)
vSphere configuration limits (enabled)
Demand versus allocation
Demand and allocation – calculations and recommendations
CPU demand
Recommendation
CPU allocation
Recommendation
Memory demand
Recommendation
Memory allocation
Recommendation
Setting overcommitment
CPU overcommitment
Memory overcommitment
Disk space overcommitment
Accounting for peaks
Recommendations
High availability and buffers – usable capacity
High availability
Buffers
Projects
Improvements to demand or capacity trending
Pipeline management
Planned versus committed projects
Summary
7. Dashboard Design
Why use custom dashboards?
Widgets
Types of widgets
The widget settings
Creating a custom dashboard
Interactive dashboard
Editing Object List
Editing Metric Picker
Editing Heatmap
XML editing
Summary
8. Reporting and Views
Changes to views and reports in Operations Manager 6.0
Views in Operations Manager 5.x versus 6.0
Reports in Operations Manager 5.x versus 6.0
Views in Operations Manager 6.0
Defining and building views
Name and description
Subjects
Presentation
List
List summary
Trend
Distribution
Text and images
Data
Visibility
Availability
Further Analysis
Blacklist
Reports in Operations Manager 6.0
Scheduling reports
Summary
9. Super Metrics
What are super metrics and when do I use them?
Metric terminology and definitions
Objects
Metrics
Attribute types
Super metric types
Rollup
Generic resource
Specific resource/pass-through
Building your own super metrics
Defining a new super metric
Validating the new super metric
Applying super metrics in Operations Manager 6.0
Comparing super metrics to views
Views
Super metrics
Summary
10. Administering vROps 6.0
Overview of role-based access
Configuring an LDAP source
Configuring users and groups
Summary
11. Expanding vROps with Solutions
Why collect additional data?
Installing solutions
Importing data using the REST API
Summary
12. Application Management in vROps 6.0
Creating applications
Importing applications
Summary
13. Alerting, Actions, and Recommendations
Symptoms, recommendations, and actions
Symptoms
Alerts
Recommendations
Actions
Creating symptoms and recommendations
Creating alerts
Summary
14. Just Messing Around
Summary
Index
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