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Table 18. Increasing Memory Amount Behavior (Continued)
Virtual Machine
Power State
Memory Hot Plug
Enabled Hot Memory Limit
Power Off Allowed
Selected Results
On No Not applicable. The
hot plug is not
enabled.
Yes If VMware Tools is
installed and running,
the action shuts down
the virtual machine,
increases the memory,
and powers the
machine back on.
If VMware Tools is not
installed, the action
powers o the virtual
machine, increases the
memory, and powers
the machine back on.
O Not applicable. The
virtual machine is
powered o.
Not applicable. Not required The action increases
the memory the
specied amount.
Actions Supported for Automation
Recommendations can identify ways to remediate problems indicated by an alert. Some of these
remediations can be associated with actions dened in your vRealize Operations Manager instance. You can
automate several of these remediation actions for an alert when that recommendation is the rst priority for
that alert.
You enable actionable alerts in your policies. By default, automation is disabled in policies. To congure
automation for your policy, you select Administration > Policies > Policy Library. Then, you edit a policy,
access the Alert / Symptom Denitions workspace, and select Local for the Automate seing in the Alert
Denitions pane.
When an action is automated, you can use the Automated and Alert columns in Administration > Recent
Tasks to identify the automated action and view the results of the action.
n
vRealize Operations Manager uses the automationAdmin user account to trigger automated actions.
For these automated actions that are triggered by alerts, the Submied By column displays the
automationAdmin user.
n
The Alert column displays the alert that triggered the action. When an alert is triggered that is
associated to the recommendation, it triggers the action without any user intervention.
The following actions are supported for automation:
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Delete Powered O VM
n
Delete Idle VM
n
Move VM
n
Power O VM
n
Power On VM
n
Set CPU Count And Memory for VM
n
Set CPU Count And Memory for VM Power O Allowed
n
Set CPU Count for VM
n
Set CPU Count for VM Power O Allowed
n
Set CPU Resources for VM
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