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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
determine
chronic problem 28
object capacity 28
transient problem 28
dynamic threshold, concept 7
E
efficiency
density 19
waste 19
events, determining performance problems 26
exhaust resource 28
F
faults 14
filter alerts 50
forecasting capacity 43
forecasting data, capacity risk 43
G
graph buttons 21
graphs 20
H
hardware scenarios 45
health
anomalies 14
defining 12
sub-badges 12
timeframe 24
transient or chronic 24
workload 13, 14
health tree buttons 21
heat maps
identify resource consumers 27
identifying latency 38
host scenarios 45
hosts
stressed 31
with high latency 38
I
icons for objects 11
identify
critical alerts 50
overall health issue 24
recent alerts 50
identify alert notifications 50
idle virtual machines 41
inventory icons 11
issue, consistency 27
issue, extent 27
L
latency, hosts 38
M
maintain, alerts 52
memory
interpret data 31
metrics 32
metric chart buttons 21
metric charts 20
metrics
concept 7
key concepts 8
memory 32
memory issues 31
N
noise line 25
O
object types 11
optimize
consolidation ratio 39
density 39
reclaimable resources 39
optimizing capacity 42
optimizing data, capacity 39
optimizing virtual machines 40
oversized virtual machines 42
overused clusters 31
overused hosts 31
P
performance, source of degradation 26, 36
performance degradation, events 26
planning, proactive 35
planning data, capacity risk 35
powered-off virtual machines 41
product features 7
R
reclaim, resources 39
resources
identifying underlying issues 32
memory 32
top consumers 27
risk
capacity remaining 16
defining 15
stress 17
sub-badges 15
time remaining 16
workflow 35
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