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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Contents
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide
- Introducing Key Features and Concepts
- Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment
- Object Type Icons in the Inventory Pane
- Badge Concepts for vCenter Operations Manager
- Major Badges in vCenter Operations Manager
- Working with Metrics and Charts on the All Metrics Tab
- Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment
- Check the Performance of Your Virtual Environment
- Balancing the Resources in Your Virtual Environment
- Find an ESX Host that Has Resources for More Virtual Machines
- Find a Cluster that Has Resources Available for More Virtual Machines
- Ranking the Health, Risk, and Efficiency Scores
- View the Compliance Details
- View a List of Members
- Overview of Relationships
- Troubleshooting with vCenter Operations Manager
- Troubleshooting Overview
- Troubleshooting a Help Desk Problem
- Troubleshooting an Alert
- Finding Problems in the Virtual Environment
- Finding the Cause of the Problem
- Determine Whether the Environment Operates as Expected
- Identify the Source of Performance Degradation
- Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for a Virtual Machine
- Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for Clusters and Hosts
- Identify the Top Resource Consumers
- Identify Events that Occurred when an Object Experienced Performance Degradation
- Determine the Extent of a Performance Degradation
- Determine the Timeframe and Nature of a Health Issue
- Determine the Cause of a Problem with a Specific Object
- Fix the Cause of the Problem
- Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager
- Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk
- Determine When an Object Might Run Out of Resources
- Identify Clusters with the Space for Virtual Machines
- Investigating Abnormal Host Health
- Identify Datastores with Space for Virtual Machines
- Identify Datastores with Wasted Space
- Address a Problem with a Specific Virtual Machine
- Identify the Virtual Machines with Resource Waste Across Datastores
- Address a Problem with a Specific Datastore
- 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
- Analyzing Data for Capacity Risk
- Working with Faults and Alerts
- Working with Groups
- Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager
- Create a New Policy
- Set the General Parameters of a Policy
- Associate a Policy with One or More Groups
- Customize Badge Thresholds for Infrastructure Objects
- Customize Badge Thresholds for Virtual Machine Objects
- Customize the Badge Thresholds for Groups
- Modify Capacity and Time Remaining Settings
- Modify Usable Capacity Settings
- Modify Usage Calculation Settings
- Modify the Criteria for Powered-Off and Idle Virtual Machine State
- Modify the Criteria for Oversized and Undersized Virtual Machines
- Modify the Criteria for Underused and Stressed Capacity
- Select Which Badges Generate Alerts
- Modify Trend and Forecast Analysis Settings
- Modify an Existing Policy
- Modify Summary, Views, and Reports Settings
- Create a New Policy
- Index
Procedure
1 In the inventory pane, click the object for which you want to view relationships.
2 Click the Relationships tab under the Environment tab.
The relationship graph and properties of the object are displayed. (You can also directly select the object
and see its object properties by double-clicking the object from the relationship graph.)
3 Use the Relationships graph pane buttons to examine objects in the graph.
4 Use the Show drop-down list to select the type of relationships to view.
5 (Optional) To view the properties of any object in the relationship graph, click the object.
View the Properties of the Application Object
The vCenter Operations Manager user interface displays the relationships graph and object properties of an
application object. The properties of an application object include Process, Listening Port, Category, Runs on,
and Dependent of Service.
At the virtual machine level, the relationship graph also displays the application that are running on this virtual
machine and applications that this selected virtual machine depends on. If you select any application from the
relationship graph, the application object properties of that application is displayed. The virtual machines that
are above the application node are a set of virtual machines that depend on the selected application. The virtual
machines that are below the application node are the virtual machines that the application runs on.
Procedure
1 In the inventory pane, click the virtual machine object.
2 Click the Relationships tab under the Environment tab.
The relationship graph and properties of the virtual machine object are displayed. The relationship graph
also displays the applications that run on the virtual machine and the applications that the virtual machine
depends on.
3 Click the application object for which you want to see the object properties.
The application object properties are displayed. You can also directly select the application object and see
its relationship graph and application object properties by double-clicking the application object from the
relationship graph.
Table 3-2. Properties of the Application Object
Application Description
Title Displays the name of the selected application.
Process Displays the process name of the selected application.
Listening Port Displays a list of listening port numbers of the selected
application.
Category Displays the name of the category the selected application
belong to.
Runs on Displays the name of the entity on which the selected
application is running. If it is an external entity, IP address
is displayed. If it is a virtual machine that is managed by
vCenter Operations Manager, you can click on the link to
navigate to that virtual machine.
Dependent of Service Displays a set of virtual machines that depend on the
selected application. You can click the link to navigate to
the dependent virtual machine.
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