Mastering vRealize Operations Manager电子书

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