What you need for this book
We assume that you have the products installed and configured. VMware vSphere, vRealize Operations, and Log Insight are the products used in this book. There are many blog articles and YouTube videos on design, installation, configuration, and product overview. Some of the bloggers, such as Sunny Dua, have many other materials, which will complete your learning. At a personal level and as a father of two young kids, I'm not keen on killing trees unless it's really necessary.
The book takes advantage of all relevant new features in the latest release. That means vSphere 6.0 Update 2, vRealize Operations 6.2, and Log Insight 3.3. As this is not a product book, almost all the content of the book can be implemented using earlier release. To assure you that you can do that, we've kept screenshots from older versions whenever possible.
The detailed steps of implementation will certainly vary if you are using the older release. For example, instead of using the View widget in vRealize Operations 6, you will have to use the Metric Graph and XML in vRealize Operations 5.8.
If the solution cannot be implemented with the previous release, we'd highlight it. For example, the data transformation feature in the View widget is hard to replicate in vRealize Operations 5.8.
