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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
2 Click the Views tab under the Planning tab and select Virtual Machine Capacity Usage - Summary.
If the Host CPU and Memory use is high, the virtual machine does not have enough capacity to perform
assigned work.
What to do next
Determine whether you can optimize performance for this virtual machine by assigning capacity to match
typical load demand. If the virtual machine is powered off or idle, you can decommission the virtual machine
to reclaim unused capacity.
Implement a strategy for optimizing use of this virtual machine based on the information you obtain from the
view. Save your results by exporting the information to an export file.
Assess Virtual Machine Optimization Data
To optimize data with vCenter Operations Manager, identify overused and underused virtual machines for a
selected object.
A virtual machine can be oversized in memory and undersized in CPU or the reverse.
vCenter Operations Manager counts the virtual machine in both the oversized virtual machine count and in
the undersized virtual machine count.
This double counting can be misleading because you might expect the values for powered-off, undersized,
oversized, and idle virtual machines to add up to the total virtual machine value.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client and that vCenter Operations Manager is open.
Procedure
1 In the inventory pane, select the object that you want to inspect.
2 Click the Views tab under the Planning tab and select Virtual Machine Optimization - Summary.
3 Examine the Total Virtual Machines, Powered-Off Virtual Machines, Undersized Virtual Machines,
Oversized Virtual Machines, and Idle Virtual Machines values to determine how many machines assigned
to this object can be optimized.
Table 5-1. Example of Virtual Machine Optimization - Summary
Virtual Machine Type Number
Total Virtual Machines 12
Powered-Off Virtual Machines 0
Undersized Virtual Machines 6
Oversized Virtual Machines 6
Idle Virtual Machines 1
Identify Powered-Off Virtual Machines to Optimize Data
Powered-off virtual machines in your infrastructure are resources with capacity that you can reclaim.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client and that vCenter Operations Manager is open.
Procedure
1 In the inventory pane, select the object that you want to inspect.
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