VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials

Chapter 1: Introduction to vCenter Operations Manager 7
What is vCenter Operations Manager? 7
Benefits of troubleshooting with vC Ops 10
Benefits of capacity planning with vC Ops 12
Feature comparison of versions 13
What is vCenter Operations Manager Suite? 14
Licensing versions 14
Using vC Ops with other solutions 16
Summary 16
Chapter 2: Installing vCenter Operations Manager 17
System requirements 18
Preparing the vCenter Server 18
Deploying the vCenter Operations Manager's vApp 22
Configuring the vCenter Operations Manager 25
Assigning licenses 29
Managing policies 31
Managing group types 32
Managing display settings 32
vC Ops custom dashboard 34
Configuring user permissions 35
Adapters 35
Resources 36
Upgrading vC Ops 38
Summary 38

Navigation overview 40
The Dashboard tab 41
The Environment tab 41
The Operations tab 44
The Planning tab 46
The Alerts tab 48
The Analysis tab 48
The Reports tab 49
Major badges 50
The Health badge 50
The Risk badge 52
The Efficiency Badge 53
Minor badges 54
The Workload badge 54
The Anomalies badge 55
The Faults badge 56
The Time Remaining badge 56
The Capacity Remaining badge 57
The Stress badge 58
The Reclaimable Waste badge 59
The Density badge 60
Heat maps 61
Custom dashboards 64
Summary 65
Chapter 4: Troubleshooting Our Virtual Environment with vCenter
Operations Manager 67
Drilling in on major and minor badges 68
Troubleshooting VM performance 78
Troubleshooting network performance 88
Troubleshooting slow applications 89
Finding future risks 91
Summary 94
Chapter 5: Capacity Planning with vCenter Operations Manager 95
Optimizing our environment 95
Undersized and oversized VMs 96
Powered-off VMs 98
More optimization options 99
Common virtual machine configurations 100
Underused hosts and clusters 100
Datastore waste 101