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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
Each group must be assigned a group type. Group types are categories that you define to help organize the
groups that you create. You use the Configuration dialog box to create group types.
NOTE All operations on a group are based on the current members of the group. You cannot go back in time
and run operations based on the group members at that point in the past.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Create a Group Type,” on page 74
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“Edit a Group Type,” on page 74
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“Delete a Group Type,” on page 75
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“Create a Group,” on page 75
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“Managing Groups,” on page 79
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“Application Custom Group,” on page 82
Create a Group Type
As part of the groups creation process, you must select a group type from a list of predefined types.
By creating a group type, you create a new category in the groups inventory. Group types help you organize
the groups that you create.
vCenter Operations Manager provides a set of pre-defined group types for you to use. The available types are:
Location, Environment, Department, Function, Service Level Objective, and Security Zone.
Procedure
1 Click the Configuration link at the upper right of the vCenter Operations Manager interface.
2 In the Configuration dialog box, click Manage Group Types.
3 Click the Add Group Type icon .
4 Enter a name for the group type and click OK.
The new group type appears in the list.
5 Click Done to close the Configuration dialog box.
A new object named after the group type appears in the groups inventory tree.
Edit a Group Type
Edit a group type to change its name.
A group type is a named category used to help organize custom groups of objects that you create. You can edit
group types that you or other users create, and you can edit group types that are currently assigned to groups.
You cannot edit group types created by vCenter Operations Manager adapters. These group types are: VCM
Machine Groups (created by the VCM adapter), Application (created by the Infrastructure Navigator adapter,
and Folder (created by the vCenter adapter).
Procedure
1 Click the Configuration link at the upper right of the window.
2 In the Configuration dialog box, click Manage Group Types.
3 Select the group type you want to edit.
The group type must be managed by a user.
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