6.3

User Scenario: Create an Operational Policy for Production vCenter Server
Datastore Objects
As a Virtual Infrastructure Administrator, you manage the policies used for vRealize Operations Manager to
analyze objects in your environment, collect data from those objects, and display that data in dashboards,
views, and reports. Your IT sta added new datastore objects to your environment, and your responsibility
is to ensure that the new datastore objects adhere to the policy requirements from the VP of Infrastructure
for your test and production environments.
In this scenario, you create a policy to have vRealize Operations Manager monitor the disk space use of your
production datastore objects. You create a group type and custom object group for the datastore objects, and
apply your policy to your object group. After vRealize Operations Manager collects data from the datastore
objects in your environment according to the seings in your policy, you view the collected data and any
potential alerts in the dashboards to conrm whether the disk space use is in compliance for your datastore
objects.
Prerequisites
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Understand the purpose of using a policy. See “Managing and Administering Policies for vRealize
Operations Manager,” on page 81.
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Verify that your vRealize Operations Manager instance is working properly.
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Verify that one or more custom object groups and group types exist in your
vRealize Operations Manager instance. See “Managing Custom Object Groups in VMware vRealize
Operations Manager,” on page 21.
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Verify that your vRealize Operations Manager instance includes the default policy and one or more
other policies. See “Default Policy in vRealize Operations Manager,” on page 83.
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Understand the sections and elements in the default policy, such as the aributes, alert and symptom
denitions, and how the policy inherits seings from the base policies that you select. See “Policy
Workspace in vRealize Operations Manager,” on page 102.
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Understand the analysis seings in the default policy, such as capacity remaining and stress on hosts
and virtual machines, and the actions used to override the seings inherited from the base policies. See
the vRealize Operations Manager Information Center.
Procedure
1 Create a Group Type for Your Datastore Objects on page 94
Create a group type so that you can categorize your Datastore objects.
2 Create an Object Group for Your Datastore Objects on page 94
Create an object group to organize the Datastore objects in your environment as a single object group.
3 Create Your Policy and Select a Base Policy on page 95
Create your policy, and select the base policies to use to override the seings for your new policy.
4 Override the Analysis Seings for the Datastore Objects on page 96
Display and override the analysis seings for the Datastore objects that your new policy will monitor.
5 Enable Disk Space Aributes for Datastore Objects on page 96
Enable the aributes for vRealize Operations Manager to monitor the disk space of your production
datastore objects.
6 Override Alert and Symptom Denitions for Datastore Objects on page 97
Override the alert and symptom denitions for Datastore objects.
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