Book description
A hands-on guide to mastering performance and capacity management in a virtual data center
In Detail
VMware vRealize Operations is a suite of products that automates operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity, and configuration management. vRealize Operations Manager is the most important component of this suite that helps administrators to maintain and troubleshoot their VMware environment as well as their physical environment.
This book takes you through the fundamental differences between a Software-Defined Data Center and a classic physical data center, and how these differences impact both architecture and operations. From a strategic point of view, you will come across the most common challenges associated with performance management in a Software-Defined Data Center. Furthermore, you will learn all the key counters in vSphere and vRealize Operations, understand their dependencies, and acquaint yourself with practical solutions to configure them for a healthy virtual environment.
What You Will Learn
- Educate and convince your peers on why and how performance and capacity management change in a virtual data center
- Correct many misconceptions about virtualization
- Discover how your peers operationalize their vRealize Operations
- Master all the key metrics in vSphere and vRealize Operations
- Be confident in performance troubleshooting with vSphere and vRealize Operations
- See real-life examples of how super metric and advance dashboards make management easier
- Develop rich custom dashboards with interaction and super metrics
Table of contents
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VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management
- Table of Contents
- VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management
- Credits
- Foreword
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Virtual Data Center – It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized
- 2. Capacity Management in SDDC
- 3. Mastering the Key Counters in SDDC
- 4. CPU Counters
- 5. Memory Counters
- 6. Network Counters
- 7. Storage Counters
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8. Dashboard Examples and Ideas
- Planning for your dashboards
- Use case – is virtualization causing a problem?
- Use case – managing the overall SDDC performance
- Use case – dashboards for the big screen
- Use case – storage performance management
- Use case – storage capacity management
- Use case – network performance management
- Use case – right-sizing large VMs
- Use case – capacity planning
- Summary
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781783551682
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