Summary

I hope you have found the content informative and realized that network monitoring cannot be done at the vSphere layer alone.

This chapter concludes Part 3, where we spent over 100 pages touring the counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations.

It also takes us to the end of the book. It has been a great pleasure sharing this knowledge, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Thank you for reading this all the way through. It is a heavy topic, so you should congratulate yourself on completing the review.

One thing I particularly liked about writing this book is that it's basically about documenting the collective experience I gained from dealing with customers. As someone working on the vendor side, I only know the theory. It is the customers who live with the implementation once the consultants leave, facing the production environment and end users directly.

Let's recap the key messages that you read. I hope they resonate and you see the practicalities in your environment...