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- 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
Monitoring Day-to-Day Activity in vCenter Operations Manager
Monitoring day-to-day activity in the vCenter Operations Manager virtual environment involves evaluating
the overall health of the system and reacting to potential problems at the current time.
Identify an Overall Health Issue
The Health badge is the indicator of a potential problem in the virtual environment that
vCenter Operations Manager monitors.
By default, the Dashboard tab displays information about the World object. You can select another object in
the inventory pane to check for immediate health problems on the object. (You can also use the Search text box
at the upper right, entering part or all of the object's name, to locate an object.)
Prerequisites
In the vCenter Operations Manager interface, verify that the Dashboard tab is open.
Procedure
1 On the Dashboard tab, check the color of the Health badge.
2 If the color of the Health badge is other than green, click the arrow under the badge to expand the detailed
view.
The Health pane displays the sub-badges for Workload, Anomalies, and Faults. Badge colors help you
identify the possible cause of the problem.
3 Identify the cause of the health problem depending on the object that you selected in the inventory pane.
Selected Object Action
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World
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vCenter Server
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Datacenter
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Cluster
a In the Health pane, identify the sub-badge that indicates poor score.
b Click the Environment tab under the Operations tab.
c Select the sub-badge that indicated poor score on the Dashboard page.
d Check the Environment tab for badges of related objects that are
indicating problems.
e Double-click an object that indicates poor score.
f On the Details tab under the Operations tab, navigate to the object that
the badge represents and review the resource data, key metrics, and
badge-specific information.
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ESX host
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Virtual machine
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Datastore
a In the Health pane, identify the sub-badge that indicates poor score and
click it.
b On the Details tab under the Operations tab, review the resource data,
key metrics, and badge-specific information.
What to do next
How you proceed depends on your findings on the Details page.
Determine the Timeframe and Nature of a Health Issue
The Dashboard provides information to help you determine the nature and timeframe of a health issue,
including whether it is a transient or chronic problem.
By default, the Dashboard tab displays information about the World object. You can select another object in
the inventory pane to check for immediate health problems on the object. (You can also use the Search text box
at the upper right, entering part or all of the object's name, to locate an object.)
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