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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager
Mastering vRealize Operations Manager

Mastering vRealize Operations Manager: Analyze and optimize your IT environment by gaining a practical understanding of vRealize Operations 6.6 , Second Edition

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Mastering vRealize Operations Manager

Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs

In this chapter, we will guide you through the design considerations you have to be aware of as part of architecting your solution. This will include the following topics:

  • Design considerations around vRealize Operations High Availability
  • Remote collectors and collector groups, and how they can affect the design
  • Importance of proper vRealize Operations sizing
  • Deployment examples

Design considerations

Let's take a look at some high availability and scalability considerations we must be aware of when designing for vRealize Operations architecture. We will also take a look at what role vRealize Operations remote collector nodes and collector groups can play in a design.

To HA or not to HA?

You have to have a good grasp of the geographical layout of the infrastructure, including remote offices and data centers that you want to monitor.

'You should also consider the number and type of objects for which you want to collect data, which includes the type and number of adapters installed. Determine whether you want to enable high availability.

Based on that information you can determine what type...

Deployment examples

Let's take a look at a few common deployment scenarios:

Example 1:
In this scenario, you have multiple vCenter Server instances in a single data center.

Deploy at least one node, and scale out as needed:

In this scenario, you deploy a vRealize Operations cluster in the main data center. You configure a vCenter adapter for each VMware vCenter Server instance. You monitor all vCenter Server instances from a single product user interface.

Example 2:

In this scenario, you have multiple vCenter Server instances in one data center, like you did in the previous example, but in addition, you have a vCenter Server instance in each remote data center location:

In this scenario, you deploy a vRealize Operations cluster in the main data center. You configure a vCenter adapter for each VMware vCenter Server instance in the main data center. You monitor all vCenter...

Seems too complex? Need help?

As you have seen from these first chapters, and as you will see in the next one when we discuss the prerequisite requirements and perform our first vRealize Operations deployment, planning for a proper deployment and architecting a solution that can accommodate the load and complicity of your environment may be a complex task.

The good news is that you can always engage VMware's professional services for some guidance and help to design, implement, upgrade, or migrate your vRealize Operations environment. Make sure to contact your local VMware representative for more info.

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed some vRealize Operations high availability and scalability design considerations. Then we moved on to discuss remote collectors and collector groups, and what they can be used for. At the end, we looked at a few common vRealize Operations deployment examples and use cases.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the deployment prerequisite requirements vRealize Operations has, and perform our first install.

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Key benefits

  • •Get complete control of capacity management in your virtual environment
  • •Display the most appropriate performance metrics and assemble your own dashboard
  • •Analyze and process data from different sources into a single repository
  • •Optimize vRealize Automation workload placement

Description

In the modern IT world, the criticality of managing the health, efficiency, and compliance of virtualized environments is more important than ever. With vRealize Operations Manager 6.6, you can make a difference to your business by being reactive rather than proactive. Mastering vRealize Operations Manager helps you streamline your processes and customize the environment to suit your needs. You will gain visibility across all devices in the network and retain full control. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and support images, you will quickly master the ability to manipulate your data and display it in a way that best suits you and your business or technical requirements. This book not only covers designing, installing, and upgrading vRealize Operations 6.6, but also gives you a deep understanding of its building blocks: badges, alerts, super metrics, views, dashboards, management packs, and plugins. With the new vRealize Operations 6.6 troubleshooting capabilities, capacity planning, intelligent workload placement, and additional monitoring capabilities, this book is aimed at ensuring you get the knowledge to manage your virtualized environment as effectively as possible.

Who is this book for?

If you are an administrator of a virtual environment and have used vRealize Operations before but want to gain a professional understanding by easily implementing complex tasks with it, then this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • • Discover advanced vRealize Operations concepts and design your processes effectively for the underlying architecture
  • • Plan and install a new version or upgrade from a previous one
  • • Apply proven capacity management theories and techniques in practical, real-world environments
  • • Manipulate data and metrics to display them in the most effective way possible
  • • Create custom views and dashboards fit for any use case
  • • Explore how policies have evolved in vRealize Operations 6.6 and how to apply them in the most effective manner

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Table of Contents

16 Chapters
Going Ahead with vRealize Operations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Initial Setup and Configuration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Extending vRealize Operations with Management Packs and Plugins Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Badges Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting a Handle on Alerting and Notifications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Capacity Management Made Easy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Aligning vRealize Operations with Business Outcomes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Super Metrics Made Super Easy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Custom Views Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Custom Dashboards Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using vRealize Operations to Monitor Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Leveraging vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using vRealize Operations for Infrastructure Compliance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Troubleshooting vRealize Operations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Tom MacKay May 24, 2018
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Spas and the team have done an amazing amount of work on this book, and provide great insights into Ops 6.6! Highly recommend this book.
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Stoyan Varlyakov May 17, 2018
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The flow of the book is very good, examples are easy to comprehend and the technician level is adequate for an IT pro.Digital version is easy to use as a reference too.
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Pete May 21, 2018
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I need something to up my operations skills and the book got me there. I like especially the chapters around policies and workload placement. A lot of info with good examples. Price It's definitively worth the buck.
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D May 21, 2018
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A great contribution by the Authors! I have re-discovered so many details in this book, made a lot of positive influence in my understanding of monitoring and analytics with vRealize Operations Manager. Highly recommended!
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