Management Packs overview

The vRealize Operations platform has always been designed with extensibility in mind. With the release of vRealize Operations 6, there was a step change in the quantity, and quality, of Management Packs available. A lot of content, now an important part of vRealize Operations, is provided by and within the Management Packs.

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The terms Solutions and Management Packs are interchangeable in vRealize Operations. You will generally see them described as Solutions in the UI, and as Management Packs in Solutions Exchange, and much of the documentation. For the rest of this chapter, we will solely refer to them as Management Packs.

So far in this book, we have only used the vSphere Management Pack that is shipped with vRealize Operations. Although we didn't have to install it, if you watch the vRealize Operations installation carefully, you will see that it is a separate component that is installed during the vRealize Operations installation.

The vSphere Management Pack...