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4 From the Clone from drop-down menu, select an existing policy to reuse its settings.
Option Description
Default Policy
Select to apply the Default policy that is associated with all groups for
which no other policy is selected.
Original Default
Select to use the original policy settings of vCenter Operations Manager.
For the original default policy, stress is included in capacity and time
calculations (see section 3a Capacity and Time Remaining). However,
resource allocation is not included in stress calculations (see section4c
Underuse and Stress).
Optimized for 15-minute peak
period
Select to detect resources using more than 100% of their usable capacity for
more than 15 minutes within any given hour.
Optimized for 30- minute peak
period
Select to detect resources using more than 100% of their usable capacity for
more than 30 minutes within any given hour.
Excludes over-sized analysis
Select if your company policy allows the existence of over-sized virtual
machines in your environment. For example, if you provision certain
virtual machines with enough resources to cover the highest possible
workload, these machines might be considered as over-sized when the
workload is normal. You can create a separate group for such highly-
provisioned machines and assign the Excludes over-sized analysis policy
to the group, so that these machines will not be included in calculating the
values for capacity-related badges.
Ignore these objects
For testing and development. This policy deactivates all alerts and badge
threshold settings.
Production environment
For real-world production. Both demand and allocation models are
configured. Uses a 4-hour sliding window for measurement. Container
object thresholds for CPU and memory are set to demand above 40% for
more than 10% of the configured time period (see section4c Underuse and
Stress).
Test and development environment
For testing and development. Uses the current defaults, and a demand
model, in which requested resources are used to determine capacity
remaining (see section3a Capacity and Time Remaining).Only fault alerts
are enabled (see section5 Configure alerts).
Batch workloads
For production. Optimized for throughput. Uses an 8-hour sliding window
for measurement.
Interactive workloads
For production. Optimized for response time. Uses a 1-hour sliding
window for measurement.
5 Click OK or Finish to save your settings, or select another option to configure.
6 Click Done to close the Configuration dialog box.
Associate a Policy with One or More Groups
You can determine what policies are applied to groups in vCenter Operations Manager.
You can use the Configuration dialog box to associate policies with groups either while you create a new
policy or while modifying an existing policy.
NOTE You can assign only one policy per group.
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.
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