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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Advanced Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Advanced Getting Started Guide
- vCenter Operations Manager Features
- Preparing to Monitor a vCenter Operations Manager Virtual Environment
- Object Type Icons in the Inventory Pane
- Badge Concepts for vCenter Operations Manager Planning
- Major Badges in vCenter Operations Manager
- Working with Metrics and Charts on the All Metrics Tab
- Planning the vCenter Operations Manager Workflow
- Monitoring Day-to-Day Activity in vCenter Operations Manager
- Identify an Overall Health Issue
- Determine the Timeframe and Nature of a Health Issue
- Determine Whether the Environment Operates as Expected
- Identify the Source of Performance Degradation
- Identify Events that Occurred when an Object Experienced Performance Degradation
- Identify the Top Resource Consumers
- Determine the Extent of a Performance Degradation
- Determine When an Object Might Run Out of Resources
- Determine the Cause of a Problem with a Specific Object
- Address a Problem with a Specific Virtual Machine
- Address a Problem with a Specific Datastore
- Identify Objects with Stressed Capacity
- Identify Stressed Objects with vCenter Operations Manager
- Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for Clusters and Hosts
- Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for a Virtual Machine
- Determine the Percentage of Used and Remaining Capacity to Assess Current Needs
- Preparing Proactive Workflows in vCenter Operations Manager
- Planning and Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk
- Identify Clusters with the Space for Virtual Machines
- Identify the Source of Performance Degradation Through Heat Maps
- Identify Datastores with Space for Virtual Machines
- Identify Datastores with Wasted Space
- Identify the Virtual Machines with Resource Waste Across Datastores
- Identify the Host and Datastore with the Highest Latency
- Optimizing Data for Capacity
- Determine How Efficiently You Use the Virtual Infrastructure
- Identify the Consolidation Ratio Trend for a Datacenter or Cluster
- Determine Reclaimable Resources from Underused Objects
- Assess Virtual Machine Capacity Use
- Assess Virtual Machine Optimization Data
- Identify Powered-Off Virtual Machines to Optimize Data
- Identify Idle Virtual Machines to Optimize Capacity
- Identify Oversized Virtual Machines to Optimize Data
- Determine the Trend of Waste for a Virtual Machine
- Forecasting Data for Capacity Risk
- Create Capacity Scenarios for Virtual Machines With New Profiles
- Create Capacity Scenarios for Virtual Machines With Existing Profiles
- Create a Hardware Change Scenario
- Create a What-If Scenario to Remove Virtual Machines
- Combine the Results of What-If Scenarios
- Compare the Results of What-If Scenarios
- Delete a Scenario from the What-If Scenarios List
- Planning and Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk
- Planning vCenter Operations Manager Workflow with Alerts
- Customizing vCenter Operations Manager Configuration Settings
- Index
Table 2-9. Stress States
Badge Icon Description User Action
The Stress score is normal. No attention required.
Some of the object resources are
not enough to meet the
demands.
Check and take appropriate
action.
The object is experiencing
regular resource shortage.
Check and take appropriate
action as soon as possible.
Most of the resources on the
object are constantly
insufficient. The object might
stop functioning properly.
Act immediately.
No data is available for the Stress
score.
The object is offline.
Defining Efficiency to Optimize the Environment
The vCenter Operations Manager Efficiency badge identifies the potential opportunities to improve the
performance or cost of your virtual environment.
Efficiency accounts for the waste and infrastructure density in your environment. A large amount of wasted
resources combined with a low density ratio generates a poor efficiency score.
The Efficiency score ranges between 0 (bad) and 100 (good). The badge changes its color based on the badge
score thresholds that are set by the vCenter Operations Manager administrator.
Table 2-10. Object Efficiency States
Badge Icon Description User Action
The efficiency is good. The
resource use on the selected
object is optimal.
No attention required.
The efficiency is good, but can be
improved. Some resources are
not fully used.
Select Planning > Views to
identify underused resources.
The resources on the selected
object are not used in the most
optimal way.
Select Planning > Views to
identify underused resources.
The efficiency is bad. Many
resources are wasted.
Try optimizing the resource use to
avoid resource waste.
No data is available for any of
the metrics for the time period.
The object is offline.
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