Mastering VRealize Operations Manager : Analyze and Optimize Your IT Environment by Gaining a Practical Understanding of VRealize Operations Manager.

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: vROps - Introduction, Architecture, and Availability -- A new, common platform design -- The vRealize Operations Manager component architecture -- The user interface -- Collector -- Controller -- Analytics -- Persistence -- Global xDB -- Alarms xDB -- HIS xDB -- FSDB -- vRealize Operations Manager node types -- The master / master replica node -- The data node -- The remote collector node -- Multi-node deployment and high availability -- The Operations Manager's migration to GemFire -- GemFire sharding -- Adding, removing, and balancing nodes -- High availability in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 -- Operations Manager 6.0 HA design considerations -- How does HA and data duplication work? -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Installing and Migrating vROps 6.0 -- Installation and migration -- Migration overview -- Deploying the vROps 6.0 virtual appliance -- Configuring a new vROps instance -- Fresh installation -- Adding additional nodes -- Scaling and high availability -- Summary -- Chapter 3: vRealize Operations Manager Badges -- What are vRealize Operations Manager badges? -- Changes in badges of vROps 6.0 -- Badges for non-vSphere objects -- Major badges are now set by definitions -- Understanding the Health badge -- The Workload badge -- The Anomalies badge -- The Fault badge -- The Health badge summary -- Understanding the Risk badge -- The Capacity Remaining badge -- The Time Remaining badge -- The Stress badge -- The Risk badge summary -- Understanding the Efficiency badge -- The Reclaimable Capacity badge -- Idle VMs -- Powered-off virtual machines -- Oversized virtual machines -- The Density badge -- The Efficiency badge summary -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Merged UI.

What has changed in the new UI? -- Components that make up the Merged UI -- The primary vROps sections overview -- Alerts -- Environment -- Content -- Administration -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Policies in vRealize Operations Manager 6 -- What are policies? -- Creating policies -- Modular policies -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Capacity Management Made Easy -- An Introduction into capacity management for Operations Manager policies -- The initial policy configuration wizard -- Defining the correct capacity management policies for your environment -- Resource containers -- Observed versus configured metrics -- Policy recommendations for containers -- Demand versus allocation -- Setting overcommitment -- CPU overcommitment -- Memory overcommitment -- Disk space overcommitment -- Accounting for peaks -- Recommendations -- High availability and buffers (usable capacity) -- High availability -- Buffers -- Projects -- Improvements to demand or capacity trending -- Pipeline management -- Planned versus committed projects -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Dashboard Design -- Why use custom dashboards? -- Widgets -- Types of widgets -- The widget settings -- Creating a custom dashboard -- Interactive dashboard -- Editing Object List -- Editing Metric Picker -- Editing Heatmap -- XML editing -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Reporting and Views -- Changes to views and reports in Operations Manager 6.0 -- Views in Operations Manager 5.x versus 6.0 -- Reports in Operations Manager 5.x versus 6.0 -- Views in Operations Manager 6.0 -- Defining and building views -- Name and description -- Subjects -- Presentation -- Data -- Visibility -- Reports in Operations Manager 6.0 -- Scheduling reports -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Super Metrics -- What are super metrics and when do I use them? -- Metric terminology and definitions -- Objects -- Metrics -- Attribute types -- Super metric types -- Rollup.

Generic resource -- Specific resource/pass-through -- Building your own super metrics -- Defining a new super metric -- Validating the new super metric -- Applying super metrics in Operations Manager 6.0 -- Comparing super metrics to views -- Views -- Super metrics -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Administering vROps 6 -- Overview of role-based access -- Configuring an LDAP source -- Configuring users and groups -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Expanding vROps with Solutions -- Why collect additional data? -- Installing solutions -- Importing data using the REST API -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Application Management in vROps 6 -- Creating applications -- Importing applications -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Alerting, Actions, and Recommendations -- Symptoms, recommendations and actions -- Symptoms -- Alerts -- Recommendations -- Actions -- Creating symptoms and recommendations -- Creating alerts -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Just Messing Around -- Summary -- Index.

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