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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager Second Edition

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Going Ahead with vRealize Operations

ROI with vRealize Operations

What can vRealize Operations do?

vRealize Operations key component architecture

The Watchdog service

The user interface

The Collector

The GemFire

The GemFire locator

The Controller

Analytics

Persistence

Cassandra DB

Central (repl) DB

Alerts /HIS (Data) DB

HSQL DB

FSDB

vRealize Operations node types

The master and master replica nodes

The data node

The remote collector node

Multi-node deployment, HA, and scalability

GemFire clustering

GemFire sharding

Adding, removing, and balancing nodes

High Availability in vRealize Operations 6.6

How does HA and data duplication work?

Summary

Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs

Design considerations

To HA or not to HA?

Do I need remote collectors and collector groups?

Does size matter?

What about the number of users?

Deployment examples

Seems too complex? Need help?

Summary

Initial Setup and Configuration

Meeting the requirements

Sizing requirements

Networking requirements

Installation steps, formats, and types

Installation steps

Installation formats

Installation types

Installation and upgrade

Installing a new vRealize Operations instance

Deploying the vRealize Operations virtual appliance

Configuring a new vRealize Operations instance

Expanding the existing installation

Adding a node to the vRealize Operations cluster

Enabling High Availability

Enabling HA

Finalizing the new installation

Configuring user access control

Configuring your first solution

Upgrading vRealize Operations

Upgrading from vRealize Operations 6.2.x or later

Summary

Extending vRealize Operations with Management Packs and Plugins

Collecting additional data

Defining a vRealize Operations solution

Overview of popular solutions

Service Discovery solution

Log Insight solution

vSphere NSX solution

Storage Devices solution

vCloud Air solution

Installing solutions

Importing data with a REST API

Summary

Badges

What are vRealize Operations badges?

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 Compliance 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

Getting a Handle on Alerting and Notifications

What are symptoms, recommendations, and actions?

What are symptoms?

What are alerts?

What are recommendations?

What are actions?

Creating symptoms, recommendations, and alerts

Creating symptoms

Creating recommendations

Creating alerts

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

What are policies?

Alert notifications

Configuring alert notifications

Pushing alerts into your ITSM solution

Using REST

Using Webhooks

Using ITSM plugins

Summary

Capacity Management Made Easy

Resource capacity

Overview and concepts

Resource capacity models

Allocation-based and demand-based models

Memory consumed model

Preparing for capacity planning

Monitoring capacity

Capacity management for vRealize Operations policies

Defining the correct capacity management policies for your environment

Resource containers

Scenario 1 – CPU and memory-enabled only

Scenario 2 - CPU, memory, disk I/O, and disk space enabled only

Observed versus configured metrics

Policy recommendations for containers

Demand versus allocation

Demand and allocation calculations and recommendations

CPU demand

CPU allocation

Memory demand

Memory allocation

Setting overcommitment

CPU overcommitment

Memory overcommitment

Disk space overcommitment

Accounting for peaks

High Availability and buffers (usable capacity)

High Availability

Buffers

Projects

Improvements to demand or capacity trending

Pipeline management

Planned versus committed projects

Custom Datacenter

Creating a Custom Datacenter

Profiles

Creating custom profiles

Summary

Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes

What is business-oriented reporting?

Tags, application groups, and custom groups

Using tags

Using application groups

Using custom groups and types

Putting it all together

Summary

Super Metrics Made Super Easy

What are super metrics and when do I use them?

What's new with super metrics?

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

Associating super metrics with objects

Using operators in super metrics

Comparing super metrics to views

Views

Super metrics

Summary

Creating Custom Views

What's new in views and reports in vRealize Operations 6.6?

Views in vRealize Operations

Defining and building views

Name and description

View types (presentation)

List

List summary

Trend

Distribution

Text and images

Subjects

Data

Visibility

Availability

Further Analysis

Blacklist

Deleting a view

Reports in vRealize Operations

Creating reports

Scheduling reports

Summary

Creating Custom Dashboards

About dashboards

Designing dashboards

Widgets

Types of widgets

Widget configuration options

Creating custom dashboards

Creating an interactive dashboard

The Object List

The Metric Picker

The Heatmap

The Scoreboard

Metric Configuration Files (XML)

Summary

Using vRealize Operations to Monitor Applications

What is Endpoint Operations Management?

What is new in vRealize Operations 6.6?

Endpoint Operations Management key components

Managing the Endpoint Operations Management Agent

Installing the Agent

Manually installing the Agent on a Linux Endpoint

Manually installing the agent on a Windows Endpoint

Automated agent installation using vRealize Automation

Reinstalling the agent

Reinstalling the agent on a Linux Endpoint

Reinstalling the Agent on a Windows Endpoint

Viewing and collecting metrics

Other Endpoint Operations Management monitoring functionalities

Adding monitoring objects

Using remote check

Using multiprocess

Summary

Leveraging vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement

What is Intelligent Workload Placement?

The Workload Balance dashboard

Rebalancing workloads with vRealize Operations and DRS

Creating a custom data center

Setting DRS automation

Rebalancing clusters

Automated rebalancing

Scheduling a rebalance action

Using rebalance alerts

Predictive DRS with vRealize Operations

vRealize Automation Workload Placement with vRealize Operations

Integrating vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations

Summary

Using vRealize Operations for Infrastructure Compliance

Integrated compliance

The compliance badge

vSphere Hardening compliance

Enabling vSphere hardening compliance

Monitoring compliance

Compliance Alerts

The Getting Started dashboard

PCI and HIPAA compliance

Enabling the HIPAA compliance pack

Summary

Troubleshooting vRealize Operations

Self-monitoring dashboards

Troubleshooting vRealize Operations components

Services

The Apache2 service

The Watchdog service

The Collector service

The Controller service

Databases

Cassandra DB

Central (Repl DB)

Alerts/HIS (Data) DB

FSDB

Platform-cli

Summary

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