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3 Congure the Custom Policy Seings to Analyze and Report on vSphere Objects on page 90
You use dierent policy requirements for your Development, Test, and Production environments so
that you can congure the specic policy seings for vRealize Operations Manager to analyze and
report on your objects, including your virtual SQL Servers.
4 Apply the Custom Policy to vSphere Object Groups on page 91
You create an object group type to categorize your virtual SQL Server machines. Then you create an
object group that contains your virtual SQL Server machines, and apply your custom policy to this
group of SQL Server virtual machine objects.
What to do next
After you nish this scenario, you must wait for vRealize Operations Manager to collect data from the
objects in your environment. When a violation of the policy thresholds occur, vRealize Operations Manager
sends an alert to notify you of the problem. If you continuously monitor the state of your objects, you are
always aware of the state of the objects in your environment, and do not need to wait for
vRealize Operations Manager to send alerts.
Create a custom dashboard so that you can monitor the virtual SQL Server objects and address problems
that occur. See “Using Dashboards,” on page 27.
Determine the vSphere Operational Requirements
You must continuously monitor the capacity levels of your virtual SQL Server machines, and have
vRealize Operations Manager notify you about any degradation in the performance of these objects. You
want vRealize Operations Manager to notify you 60 days before these objects begin to experience problems
with their capacity levels.
Your VP of Infrastructure has dened a default operational policy and a main production policy for all of
the objects in your production environment, and your IT Director has applied these policies to your
production environments. Although the main production policy handles the operational monitoring needs
for most of your objects, your manager requires that you be notied about any degradation in the
performance of your production virtual SQL Server machines. You have vRealize Operations Manager
continuously monitor the capacity levels of your virtual SQL Servers so that you can address problems that
occur. You have vRealize Operations Manager notify you 60 days before your virtual SQL Servers begin to
experience problems with their capacity levels.
Your IT department divided objects into dedicated groups that support the Development, Test, and
Production areas. You must use vRealize Operations Manager to continually track and assess the health and
risk of the objects in each of these areas.
In this scenario, you create an operational management policy to analyze, monitor, and troubleshoot your
objects. You then monitor the results in custom dashboards.
You must rst determine the vSphere operational requirements so that you can understand the analysis
seings required for your policy. You can then create a policy to monitor your virtual SQL Server objects,
and congure the custom policy to include minor dierences in the seings for the main production policy.
When you create the custom policy to analyze and monitor your virtual SQL Servers, you congure the
analysis seings so that vRealize Operations Manager analyzes specic objects and report the results in the
dashboards. You then apply the policy to groups of virtual SQL Server objects.
Prerequisites
Verify that the following conditions are met:
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You understand the context of this scenario. See “User Scenario: Create a Custom Operational Policy for
a vSphere Production Environment,” on page 86.
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A default policy and a main production policy are in eect for all of the objects in your vSphere
production environment.
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