VMware vRealize Operations Essentials Paperback – January 1, 2016

Harness the power of VMware vRealize Operations to efficiently manage your IT infrastructure

About This Book

• Extract the optimum performance, availability, and capacity of your IT infrastructure with the help of vRealise Operations Manager
• Leverage the power of strategic reports to drive tactful decision-making within the IT department
• A pragmatic guide to proficiently manage your applications and storage

Who This Book Is For

If you are a vSphere administrator and wish to optimize your virtual environment, this book is your go-to guide on vRealize Operations. As a vSphere administrator, it is assumed that you have a good understanding of both physical and virtual infrastructure. A basic knowledge of application monitoring and log analysis would be useful when we dive into the capabilities of the solution.

What You Will Learn

• Architect, design, and install vRealize Operations
• Migrate from the previous vCenter Operations Manager 5.x version, configure vR Ops policies, and create custom groups
• Use out-of-the-box Dashboards, Views, and Reports and create your own customized Dashboards, Views, and Reports
• Apply the Alerting framework of Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions, and create your own Alerting content
• Leverage the power of Capacity Planning to maximize the utilization of your virtual infrastructure
• Manage the rest of your infrastructure, including storage and applications, with vRealize Operations Management Packs
• Extend the solution with vRealize Hyperic and Log Insight

In Detail

This book will enable you to deliver on the operational disciplines of Performance, Health, Capacity, Configuration, and Compliance by making the best use of solutions provided by vRealize Operations. Starting with architecture, design, and sizing, we will ensure your implementation of vRealize Operations is a success.

We will dive into the utilization of a solution to manage your vSphere infrastructure.

Then, we will employ out-of-the-box Dashboards and the very powerful Views and Reporting functionality of vRealize Operations to create your custom dashboards and address your reporting requirements.

Next, we go through the Alerting framework and how Symptoms, Recommendations, and Actions are used to achieve efficient operations. Later you will master the topic of Capacity Planning, where we look at how important it is to craft appropriate policies to match your requirements, and we'll consider attitude toward capacity risk, which will aid you to build future project requirements into your capacity plans.

Finally, we will look at extending the solution to manage Storage, Applications, and other IT infrastructures using Management Packs from Solution Exchange, as well as how the solution can be enhanced with the integration of Log Insight.

充分利用VMware vRealize Operations的功能，高效管理您的IT基礎架構

關於本書

- 利用vRealize Operations Manager的幫助，提取您的IT基礎架構的最佳性能、可用性和容量
- 利用戰略報告的力量，在IT部門內進行明智的決策
- 一本實用指南，以熟練地管理您的應用程序和存儲

本書適合對vSphere進行管理並希望優化虛擬環境的vSphere管理員。作為vSphere管理員，我們假設您對物理和虛擬基礎架構都有很好的理解。當我們深入研究解決方案的能力時，對應用程序監控和日誌分析的基本知識將很有用。

您將學到什麼

- 設計、架構和安裝vRealize Operations
- 從之前的vCenter Operations Manager 5.x版本遷移，配置vR Ops策略，並創建自定義群組
- 使用現成的儀表板、視圖和報告，並創建自己的自定義儀表板、視圖和報告
- 應用症狀、建議和操作的警報框架，並創建自己的警報內容
- 利用容量規劃的能力，最大限度地利用您的虛擬基礎架構
- 使用vRealize Operations管理包來管理其他基礎架構，包括存儲和應用程序
- 通過vRealize Hyperic和Log Insight擴展解決方案

詳細內容

本書將使您能夠通過充分利用vRealize Operations提供的解決方案，實現性能、健康、容量、配置和合規性的運營紀律。從架構、設計和大小開始，我們將確保您對vRealize Operations的實施取得成功。

我們將深入研究使用解決方案來管理您的vSphere基礎架構。

然後，我們將使用現成的儀表板和功能強大的視圖和報告功能，創建自定義儀表板，滿足您的報告需求。

接下來，我們將介紹警報框架以及如何使用症狀、建議和操作來實現高效運營。然後，您將掌握容量規劃的主題，我們將研究如何制定適當的策略以滿足您的需求，並考慮容量風險的態度，這將幫助您將未來的項目需求納入您的容量計劃中。

最後，我們將探討如何通過解決方案交換中的管理包來擴展解決方案，以管理存儲、應用程序和其他IT基礎架構，以及如何通過集成Log Insight來增強解決方案。