6.3

Use the Environment Overview to Find Problems
If you are system administrator who is trying to investigate the reason for slow performance in your
environment, you can select key objects such as host systems to see if any related objects such as virtual
machines indicate problems.
Procedure
1 Select Environment > vSphere Hosts and Clusters and select the vSphere World object.
2 Select the Environment tab.
vRealize Operations Manager displays health badges for all objects in the vSphere World.
3 Click each of the host system badges.
The health badge of the virtual machines that belong to the host are highlighted. A host that displays a
good health badge, may have virtual machines that display a warning status.
What to do next
Investigate the reason for the problem. For example, once you determine if the problem is chronic or
temporary, you can decide how to address it. See “Using Troubleshooting Tools to Resolve Problems,” on
page 43.
Running Actions from vRealize Operations Manager
The actions available in vRealize Operations Manager allow you to modify the state or conguration of
selected objects in vCenter Server from vRealize Operations Manager. For example, you might need to
modify the conguration of an object to address a problematic resource issue or to redistribute resources to
optimize your virtual infrastructure.
The most common use of the actions is to solve problems. You can run them as part of your troubleshooting
procedures or add them as a resolution recommendation for alerts.
Use Actions with vRealize Operations Manager
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When you are troubleshooting problems, you can run the actions from the center pane Actions menu or
from the toolbar on list views that contain the supported objects.
When an alert is triggered, and you determine that the recommended action is the most likely way to
resolve the problem, you can run the action on one or more objects.
List of vRealize Operations Manager Actions
The list of actions includes the name of the action, the objects that each one modies, and the object levels at
which you can run the action. You use this information to ensure that you correctly apply the actions as alert
recommendations and when the actions are available in the Actions menu.
Actions and Modified Objects
vRealize Operations Manager actions make changes to objects in your managed vCenter Server instances.
Action Object Levels
The actions are available when you work with dierent object levels, but they modify only the specied
object. If you are working at the cluster level and select Power On VM, all the virtual machines in the cluster
for which you have access permission are available for you to run the action. If you are working at the
virtual machine level, only the selected virtual machine is available.
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