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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
5 To apply the changes, click OK or select another page from the navigation pane of the Edit Group dialog
box.
Change How vCenter Operations Manager Updates Group Members
For rule-based groups, you can switch between manual or automatic updating of group members.
Prerequisites
Verify that the group that you want to modify is rule-based. See Chapter 7, “Working with Groups,” on
page 73.
Procedure
1
Click the groups icon to navigate to the groups view.
2 In the groups inventory view, click the group that you want to modify.
3 From the Actions drop-down menu, select Edit group.
4 In the navigation pane of the Edit Group dialog box, select Define Membership.
5 Select or deselect the Automatically keep the membership up to date option.
Option Description
Option selected
vCenter Operations Manager periodically runs a search query to find objects
that match the group membership rules, and updates the list of group
members according to search results.
Option not selected
vCenter Operations Manager adds or deletes group members only when you
select the Update members option from the Actions drop-down menu.
6 To apply the changes, click OK or select another page from the navigation pane of the Edit Group dialog
box.
Delete a Group
If you no longer need a group that you created, you can remove it from the list of groups.
Procedure
1 In the groups inventory view, click the group that you want to delete.
2 From the Actions drop-down menu, select Delete group, and click Yes to confirm the deletion.
Application Custom Group
vCenter Infrastructure Navigator discovers a set of virtual machines that are correlated as a platform for a
multi-tier application by using a user configured application template or static applications, and publishes this
information.
If you integrate Infrastructure Navigator 2.0 with vCenter Operations Manager,
vCenter Operations Manager queries and processes this application related information and reports this
application correlated group of virtual machines as an adapter-defined application custom group. You can
monitor the discovered application custom group as a vCenter Operations Manager object.
Two types of Infrastructure Navigator data are published.
Type Description
Application Definition Describes an application definition. For example, name and description.
Application Describes an application instance and its member entities.
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