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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
- Monitor the Performance of vCenter Operations Manager
- Index
Table 2-9. Stress States (Continued)
Badge Icon Description User Action
The object is experiencing
regular resource shortage.
Check and take appropriate
action as soon as possible.
Most of the resources on the
object are constantly
insufficient. The object might
stop functioning properly.
Act immediately.
No data is available for the Stress
score.
The object is offline.
The Compliance Badge
The Compliance badge value is based on the results of compliance templates that are run in
vCenter Configuration Manager and are pulled into vCenter Operations Manager to contribute to the Risk
badge calculation.
The Compliance badge value is a score based on one or more compliance templates that you run in VCM
against the data collected from vCenter Server, datacenter, cluster, host system, virtual machine objects that
are managed by vCenter Operations Manager and by VCM. The scores are calculated based on configured
VCM settings.
A VCM compliance template comprises one or more rules that define the configuration standards for different
object groups or all your objects. A rule is defined with one or more conditions that are run against objects to
determine if the configuration meets the required standards. The success or failure of the conditions determines
whether the rule is successful or unsuccessful. The compliance templates are not run against each object, but
are run against the collected configuration data for each object.
The Compliance score ranges from 0 (completely non-compliant) to 100 (completely compliant). The color of
the badge changes based on the badge score thresholds that are set by the vCenter Operations Manager
administrator.
Table 2-10. Object Compliance States
Badge Icon Description User Action
The object is in compliance with the
defined standards.
No attention required.
The object is not as compliant as you
would like based on the default values
you defined.
1 Click the Compliance badge.
2 Check the template scores and take
appropriate action.
The object is seriously out of
compliance.
1 Click the Compliance badge.
2 Check the template scores and take
appropriate action as soon as
possible.
The object is non-compliant. 1 Click the Compliance badge.
2 Act immediately to correct non-
compliant states based on template
results.
No data is available for any of the
templates.
The object is offline.
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