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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
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client as an administrator, and vCenter Operations Manager is
open.
Procedure
1 Click the Configuration link on the main vCenter Operations Manager page.
2
Click Manage Policies, select the policy that you want to modify, and click the Edit Policy icon .
3 In the Edit Policy dialog box, select the option that you want to modify and apply the necessary
changes.
The settings in the Edit Policy dialog box are the same as in the New Policy dialog box.
4 Click OK to save your settings or select another option to modify.
NOTE Your settings are saved only when you click OK in the Edit Policy dialog box.
Modify Summary, Views, and Reports Settings
You can configure how information appears in the Planning tab of vCenter Operations Manager.
An administrator can modify the settings for summary, views, trends, and reports that appear on the
Planning tab in vCenter Operations Manager. The changes that the administrator applies affect all policies
and users. Therefore, the administrator must notify other users who are working with
vCenter Operations Manager about the new settings that are applied.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client as an administrator, and vCenter Operations Manager is
open.
Procedure
1 Click the Configuration link on the main vCenter Operations Manager page.
2 Click Manage Display Settings and click Edit.
3 Change the settings to specify how information appears in the Planning tab.
Option Description
Summary
n
Summary trend intervals. Time intervals for which information for
objects and resources appears as a bar graph on the planning
Summary tab.
Trend Views
n
Default interval. Time intervals for which information on the Views
trend graphs or information tables appear. Trends are based on
information retroactively from the present. Data that has a high degree
of variability might distort trends.
n
Default time window. Number of data points that appear in a view. If
you set the window to 6, you can view 6 data points.
n
Forecast horizon. Default number of intervals for which a forecast is
calculated and shown in views or the dashboard. You can adjust the
interval in the view.
Non-Trend Views
n
Interval to use. Time interval used to display nontrending data in a
view. Nontrend views include list and summary views that combine
all values into a single value.
n
Number of intervals to use. Number of intervals to include for display
of nontrending data.
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