5.8.5
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
vm faults ranges 92
vm health levels 92
vm risk levels 92
vm stress levels 92
vm time levels 92
vm waste levels 92
vm workload levels 92
smoothing 106, 108
space, reclaiming 21
stress, identifying 40
stressed, window 105
stressed threshold 105
T
troubleshooting, Dashboard tab 39
thresholds
stressed 105
underused 105
time remaining 17
time zones 99
trend
stress 58
waste 58
trend and forecast, settings 106
trends, outlier detection and smoothing 108
troubleshooting
alerts 38
resolving 47
user problem 38
troubleshooting, causality 41
types of alerts 66
types of groups 76
U
undersized virtual machines 40, 102
underused threshold 105
underutilized virtual machines 56, 57
updating membership 78
utilization, identify consumers 44
V
vCenter Configuration Manager
cancel compliance alerts 72
compliance 20, 31–33
correlate compliance object name 33
VCM
cancel compliance alerts 72
compliance 20, 31–33
correlate compliance object name 33
views
capacity optimization 56, 57
configuring distribution views 110
configuring non-trend views 110
configuring trend views 110
optimizing capacity 40, 56, 57
settings 110
virtual infrastructure, efficiency 54
virtual infrastructure efficiency 54
virtual machine capacity
idle machines 57
oversized virtual machines 57
powered-off machines 57
undersized virtual machines 40
underutilized virtual machines 56
usage 56
virtual machine scenarios
adding new virtual machines 59
adding new virtual machines from existing
machines 60
removing virtual machines 62
virtual machines
oversized 57
undersized 40
underutilized 56
waste 52
vSphere administrator 5
vSphere relationships 35
W
waste
across datastores 52
in virtual machines 52
reclaim datastores 51
what-if scenarios
adding new virtual machines 59
adding new virtual machines from existing
machines 60
combining 63
comparing 63
deleting 63
hardware 61
removing virtual machines 62
window, stress 105
workflow
alerts 66
identifying underlying issues 43
identifying underlying resource issues 44
Workflow, proactive 49
workflow preparation 11
workload, host 50
Index
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