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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 2‑11. Object Efficiency States
Badge Icon Description User Action
The resource use on the
selected object is optimal.
No attention required.
The efficiency is good, but can
be improved. Some resources
are not fully used.
1 On the Planning tab, click
Views.
2 Use the views that are
available for the selected
object to identify underused
resources.
The resources on the selected
object are not used in the most
optimal way.
1 On the Planning tab, click
Views.
2 Use the views that are
available for the selected
object to identify underused
resources.
The efficiency is bad. Many
resources are wasted.
1 On the Planning tab, click
Views.
2 Try optimizing the resource
use to avoid resource waste.
No data is available.
The object is offline.
Using the Reclaimable Waste Badge Under the Efficiency Badge
The vCenter Operations Manager Reclaimable Waste badge accounts for resource types such as CPU,
memory, or disk, and measures the extent of excessive provisioning for an object. It also identifies the
amount of resources that you can reclaim and provision to other objects in your virtual environment.
The Reclaimable Waste score ranges between 0 (good) and 100 (bad). The badge changes its color based on
the badge score thresholds that are set by the vCenter Operations Manager administrator.
Table 2‑12. Reclaimable Waste States
Badge Icon Description User Action
No resources are wasted on the
selected object.
No attention required.
Some resource can be used
better.
Select Planning > Views to
identify underused resources.
Many resources are underused. Select Planning > Views to
identify underused resources.
Most of the resources on the
selected object are wasted.
Select Planning > Views to
identify underused resources.
No data is available for any of
the metrics for the time period.
The object is offline.
A vCenter Operations Manager administrator can change the badge score thresholds. For example, a green
badge can indicate a score below 50 instead of 75, as set by default.
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