Chapter 8. VMware vCenter Operations
This chapter focuses on vCenter Operations—the software that does real-time performance monitoring and management of the vSphere environment.
We will discuss its requirements, installation, and configuration. We will also focus on the way this software is organized and the logic behind it.
Finally, at the end of the chapter, we will talk about memory pressure and ballooning.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Installing and configuring vCenter Operations
Evaluation tasks: badges and scores
Evaluation tasks: hierarchy views
Evaluation tasks: health details
Evaluation tasks: scorecards
Evaluation tasks: analyze using heat maps
Memory pressure and ballooning