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Table Of Contents
- vRealize Operations Manager Customization and Administration Guide
- Contents
- About Customization and Administration
- Configuring Users and Groups
- Customizing How vRealize Operations Manager Displays Your Data
- Customizing How vRealize Operations Manager Monitors Your Environment
- Defining Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager
- Object Relationship Hierarchies for Alert Definitions
- Alert Definition Best Practices
- Understanding Negative Symptoms for Alerts
- Create an Alert Definition for Department Objects
- Add Description and Base Object to Alert Definition
- Add a Virtual Machine CPU Usage Symptom to the Alert Definition
- Add a Host Memory Usage Symptom to the Alert Definition
- Add Recommendations to the Alert Definition
- Create a Custom Accounting Department Group
- Create a Policy for the Accounting Alert
- Configure Notifications for the Department Alert
- Create a Dashboard to Monitor Department Objects
- Defining Symptoms for Alerts
- Viewing Actions
- Defining Recommendations for Alert Definitions
- Creating and Managing Alert Notifications
- List of Outbound Plug-Ins
- Add Outbound Notification Plug-Ins
- Add a Standard Email Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Add a REST Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Add a Log File Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Add a Network Share Plug-In for vRealize Operations Manager Reports
- Add an SNMP Trap Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Add a Smarts Service Assurance Manager Notification Plug-In for Outbound Alerts
- Filtering Log File Outbound Messages With the TextFilter.xml File
- Configuring Notifications
- Defining Compliance Standards
- Operational Policies
- Managing and Administering Policies for vRealize Operations Manager
- Policy Decisions and Objectives
- Default Policy in vRealize Operations Manager
- Custom Policies
- Policies Provided with vRealize Operations Manager
- User Scenario: Create a Custom Operational Policy for a vSphere Production Environment
- User Scenario: Create an Operational Policy for Production vCenter Server Datastore Objects
- Create a Group Type for Your Datastore Objects
- Create an Object Group for Your Datastore Objects
- Create Your Policy and Select a Base Policy
- Override the Analysis Settings for the Datastore Objects
- Enable Disk Space Attributes for Datastore Objects
- Override Alert and Symptom Definitions for Datastore Objects
- Apply Your Datastore Policy to Your Datastore Objects Group
- Create a Dashboard for Disk Use of Your Datastore Objects
- Using the Monitoring Policy Workspace to Create and Modify Operational Policies
- Policy Workspace in vRealize Operations Manager
- Super Metrics in vRealize Operations Manager
- Customizing Icons
- Managing Objects in Your Environment
- Configuring Object Relationships
- Customizing How Endpoint Operations Management Monitors Operating Systems
- Modifying Global Settings
- Defining Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager
- Maintaining and Expanding vRealize Operations Manager
- Cluster and Node Maintenance
- Logging
- Passwords and Certificates
- How To Preserve Customized Content
- Backup and Restore
- OPS-CLI Command-Line Tool
- Index
Procedure
1 Determine the operational requirements for your vSphere production environment.
In this scenario, the following requirements will be applied to the environment.
2 Develop a plan to create a custom operational policy that meets the requirements to analyze and
monitor the objects in your environment.
a Ensure that virtual SQL Servers continuously have adequate memory and CPU capacity.
b Ensure that you do not overcommit memory on your production virtual SQL Servers.
c Overcommit only a small percentage of the CPUs on your SQL Servers.
In this scenario, you set the value to 2. In some production environments, a typical value might be
4.
d Ensure that vRealize Operations Manager alerts you if the capacity of your virtual SQL Servers
drops below the dened thresholds.
e Set the Co-Stop value on your production virtual SQL Servers to an acceptable level so that the SQL
Servers do not experience delay because of CPU scheduling contention.
f Determine whether to overcommit compute resources for certain ratios.
After you plan the custom policy requirements, you can implement the policy.
What to do next
Create an operational policy for your virtual SQL Server instances.
Create a Policy to Meet vSphere Operational Needs
You will create an operational policy for your virtual SQL Server instances, where only these seings dier
from the main production policy. In this policy, you change the memory and CPU seings for specic
objects. You then congure vRealize Operations Manager to send alerts to you when the performance
degrades on your virtual SQL Servers.
In this procedure, you create a dedicated policy for a subset of virtual SQL Server objects, and change
seings for the memory and CPU capacity for your virtual SQL Server instances. At this point in the
scenario, your custom policy has only minor dierences from the production policy.
The dierence between the main production policy and your virtual SQL Server policy is in the
overcommitment of compute resources. For the SQL Server policy, you do not overcommit compute
resources. You have the SQL server policy inherit most of the seings from your overall production policy,
except that you change the capacity seings that apply directly to the virtual SQL servers.
After you apply the main production policy to your entire production environment, you create the
dedicated policy, have it inherit seings from the main policy, and make minor changes to seings in the
dedicated policy to adjust the capacity levels for your virtual SQL Servers.
To create this policy, you choose a cluster that contains the data center and the vCenter Server that will use
this policy. You make minor changes for all of the objects, including the cluster, data center, host system,
resource pools, and the virtual machine resource containers.
Prerequisites
Verify that the following conditions are met:
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You know the vSphere operational requirements. See “Determine the vSphere Operational
Requirements,” on page 87.
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A default policy is in eect for your entire production environment of vSphere objects.
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