Mastering vRealize operations manager : analyze and optimize your IT environment by gaining a practical understanding of vRealize Operations 6.6 / Spas Kaloferov, Scott Norris, Christopher Slater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaloferov, Spas, author.

Slater, Christopher, author.

Norris, Scott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2018.

Biography/History:

Kaloferov Spas: Spas Kaloferov has been a technology professional since 2004 and holds over 30 industry certifications. His experience is focused around the Microsoft and VMware portfolios. He studied in Germany and now lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. Spas joined the VMware family in 2014, and he is currently part of a team delivering high-level training across the VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) product stack. Slater Chris: Chris Slater is a Senior Solutions Architect working for VMware as part of the Professional Services Organisation (PSO). He specializes in SDDC technologies and methodologies such as vSphere, vRealize Operations Manager, and Infrastructure and Platform as a Service (IaaS/PaaS) through vRealize Automation. Chris is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-DV #102) and received a Bachelor of IT from the Australian National University. His primary customer base is the Australian Federal Government that has allowed him to work in some of the largest vSphere environments in Australia. Chris is in his early 30s and it grateful for the support from his wife Nicola and three children Sophia, Daniel and Joel. Outside of work, he enjoys gaming and watching Hobbit and Frozen (for the 100th time) with his kids. Chris can be followed on twitter @cslater27. Norris Scott: Scott Norris has 12 years of professional IT experience. Currently, he works for VMware as a Consulting Architect. Scott specializes in multiple VMware technologies, such as ESXi, vCenter, vRA 6 and 7, vCD, vCOps (vROps), vRO, SRM, and Application Services. He is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-DCA and VCDX-CMA #201). For the past 10 years, Scott has worked on VMware products and technologies, supporting small environments from a single server to large federal government environments with hundreds of hosts.

Summary:

Nowadays you can find companies that have virtualized 75%, or even more than 95% of their environment. Having a good forensic tool with comprehensive predictive analysis functionality, to monitor your virtual environment and software, is crucial. vRealize Operations 6.6 offers this and much more to help your business run uninterrupted.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: 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

Chapter 2: 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?

Chapter 3: 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

Chapter 4: 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

Chapter 5: 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

Chapter 6: 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

Chapter 7: 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

Chapter 8: 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

Chapter 9: 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

Chapter 10: 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

Chapter 11: 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)

Chapter 12: 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

Chapter 13: 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

Chapter 14: 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

Chapter 15: Troubleshooting vRealize Operations

Self-monitoring dashboards

Troubleshooting vRealize Operations components

Services

The Apache2 service

The Collector service

The Controller service

Databases

Central (Repl DB)

Alerts/HIS (Data) DB

Platform-cli

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Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed April 5, 2018).

ISBN:

9781788478281

1788478282

OCLC:

1029490605