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You're reading from Mastering vRealize Operations Manager Analyze and optimize your IT environment by gaining a practical understanding of vRealize Operations 6.6

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788474870

Length 426 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

vRealize

Concepts

Operations Management

Authors (3):

Chris Slater

Spas Kaloferov

Scott Norris

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Going Ahead with vRealize Operations FREE CHAPTER

2. Which vRealize Operations Deployment Model Fits Your Needs

3. Initial Setup and Configuration

4. Extending vRealize Operations with Management Packs and Plugins

5. Badges

6. Getting a Handle on Alerting and Notifications

7. Capacity Management Made Easy

8. Aligning vRealize Operations 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 vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement

14. Using vRealize Operations for Infrastructure Compliance

15. Troubleshooting vRealize Operations

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Leveraging vRealize Operations for vSphere and vRealize Automation Workload Placement

In this chapter, we will take a look at an exciting new feature in vRealize Operations called Intelligent Workload Placement, and how it can help us deal with underutilized and overutilized clusters in our environment. We will also see how it can integrate with vRealize Automation to provide the same effect for workloads provisioned through the portal.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

What is Intelligent Workload Placement
How to use the Workload Balance dashboard
How to rebalance workloads with vRealize Operations and DRS
How to automate rebalancing
How to optimize vRealize Automation Workload Placement with vRealize Operations

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Authors (3)

Kaloferov

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.

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Chris Slater

Chris Slater is a Senior Solutions Architect working for VMware as part of the Professional Services Organisation (PSO). He specializes in SDDC technologies and methodologies such as vSphere, vRealize Operations Manager, and Infrastructure and Platform as a Service (IaaS/PaaS) through vRealize Automation. Chris is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-DV #102) and received a Bachelor of IT from the Australian National University. His primary customer base is the Australian Federal Government that has allowed him to work in some of the largest vSphere environments in Australia.Chris is in his early 30s and it grateful for the support from his wife Nicola and three children Sophia, Daniel and Joel. Outside of work, he enjoys gaming and watching Hobbit and Frozen (for the 100th time) with his kids. Chris can be followed on twitter @cslater27.

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Scott Norris

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.

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