Mastering vRealize Operations Manager

Kaloferov, Spas; Norris, Scott; Slater, Christopher

ISBN 10: 1788474872 / ISBN 13: 9781788474870

Published by Packt Publishing, 2018

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Synopsis:

Manage vRealize operations manager 6.6 effectively using this comprehensive guide.

Key Features

• 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

Book 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.

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

Who This Book Is 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.

Table of Contents

1. Going ahead with vRops
2. Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs
3. Initial Setup and Configuration
4. Extending vROps with Management Packs and Plugins
5. Badges
6. Getting a handle on Alerting and Notifications
7. Capacity Management Made Easy
8. Aligning vROps with Business Outcomes
9. Super Metrics made Super Easy
10. Creating Custom Views
11. Creating Custom Dashboards
12. Using vRealize Operations to Monitor Applications
13. Leveraging vROps for vSphere and vRA Workload Placement and Balancing
14. Using vRealize Operations for Infrastructure Compliance
15. Troubleshooting vRealize Operations

About the Author: Spas Kaloferov has been a technology professional since 2004 and holds over 30 industry certifications. His experience is focused around the Microsoft and VMware portfolios. He studied in Germany and now lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. Spas joined the VMware family in 2014, and he is currently part of a team delivering high-level training across the VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) product stack.Scott Norris has 12 years of professional IT experience. Currently, he works for VMware as a Consulting Architect. Scott specializes in multiple VMware technologies, such as ESXi, vCenter, vRA 6 and 7, vCD, vCOps (vROps ), vRO, SRM, and Application Services. He is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-DCA and VCDX-CMA #201).For the past 10 years, Scott has worked on VMware products and technologies, supporting small environments from a single server to large federal government environments with hundreds of hosts.Christopher Slater
 is a VMware Principal Solutions Architect and a member of the Office of the CTO - Global Field. He specializes in designing and implementing VMware technologies for the Software-Defined Data Center. His technical experience includes design, development and implementation of virtual infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and DevOps solutions.Chris also holds a double VCDX in Virtualization and Cloud Management and Automation. He is also the co-author of Mastering vRealize Operations Manager 6 by Packt Publishing.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mastering vRealize Operations Manager
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 2nd Edition