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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
S
scores 12
settings
infrastructure anomalies levels 57
infrastructure badge colors 57
infrastructure capacity levels 57
infrastructure density levels 57
infrastructure efficiency levels 57
infrastructure faults ranges 57
infrastructure health levels 57
infrastructure risk levels 57
infrastructure stress levels 57
infrastructure time levels 57
infrastructure waste levels 57
infrastructure workload levels 57
vm anomalies levels 58
vm badge colors 58
vm capacity levels 58
vm density levels 58
vm efficiency levels 58
vm faults ranges 58
vm health levels 58
vm risk levels 58
vm stress levels 58
vm time levels 58
vm waste levels 58
vm workload levels 58
space, reclaiming 19
stress, identifying 30
T
time remaining 16
trend
stress 42
waste 42
types of alerts 49
U
undersized virtual machines 30
underutilized virtual machines 40, 42
utilization, identify consumers 27
V
views
capacity optimization 40, 41
optimizing capacity 30, 31, 40, 42
virtual infrastructure, efficiency 39
virtual infrastructure efficiency 39
virtual machine capacity
idle machines 41
oversized virtual machines 42
powered-off machines 41
undersized virtual machines 30
underutilized virtual machines 40
usage 40
virtual machine scenarios
adding new virtual machines 43
adding new virtual machines from existing
machines 44
removing virtual machines 46
virtual machines
oversized 42
undersized 30
underutilized 40
waste 37
W
waste
across datastores 37
in virtual machines 37
reclaim datastores 37
what-if scenarios
adding new virtual machines 43
adding new virtual machines from existing
machines 44
combining 47
comparing 47
deleting 48
hardware 45
removing virtual machines 46
workflow
alerts 49
day-to-day 23
identifying underlying issues 32
identifying underlying resource issues 31
proactive 23
reactive 24
Workflow, proactive 35
workflow preparation 11
workload 13
Index
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