Summary

This chapter described capacity management in the SDDC. It was talking about useful techniques to stay on top of the unpredictable nature of the SDDC demand. It also discussed some resource management basics, which are necessary to gain a better understanding of vRealize Operations Manger displayed graphics. Finally it discussed some pro-active tasks like capacity planning. The last section discussed how to use reports and views in order to create custom data providers. Also scheduling aspects of reports where discussed in order to ensure that data can be proactively sent to a capacity management team.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on troubleshooting and monitoring of the SDDC. It will introduce concepts based on best practices and experience to avoid worst-case scenarios. Also it will discuss vRealize Operations from an analytics standpoint to detect anomalies and report those. Furthermore the use of actions attached to alarms is discussed. Finally it will also discuss the...