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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
Index
A
about VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Advanced Getting Started Guide 5
address, virtual machine problem 29
address, datastore problem 30
alert
cancel 52
release ownership 52
suppress 52
suspend 52
take ownership 52
alert types, overall trend 51
alerts
canceling faults 54
capacity related 51
critical 51
definition 49
ownership 52
releasing ownership 53
suppressing 53
suspending 54
types 49
analyzing data, capacity risk 35
anomalies
determining expected behavior 25
noise line 25
normal values 25
assign operational responsibilities 57
attributes, concept 7
average stress 24
B
badge
cross threshold 61
health 12
high-level indicator 12
badge threshold defaults 58
badges
anomalies 14
capacity remaining 16
colors 12
concept 12
cross thresholds 57
efficiency 18
faults 14
major 12
measuring events 14
risk 15
scores 12
stress 17
waste 19
workload 13
buttons
health tree 21
in charts 21
C
capacity
assessing future risk 35
in datastores for virtual machines 36
remaining in clusters for virtual machines 35
time remaining 16
capacity optimization 39
capacity remaining 16
chart buttons 21
charts 20
clusters
remaining capacity 35
stressed 31
colors 12
combining scenarios 47
comparing scenarios 47
concepts
attributes 7
dynamic thresholds 7
metrics 7
consolidation ratio trend 39
cost savings 19
critical alerts 51
D
dashboard
remaining capacity 32
used capacity 32
datastore scenarios 45
datastores
space for virtual machines 36
waste 37
with high latency 38
day-to-day operations 24
definition, alerts 49
density 19
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