Getting Started with vrealize Operations First Published On: Last Updated On:

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1 Getting Started with vrealize Operations First Published On: Last Updated On:

2 Table Of Contents 1. Installation and Configuration 1.1.vROps - Deploy vrealize Ops Manager 1.2.vROps - Express Install 1.3.vROps - Architecture 1.4.vROps - Scalability 1.5.vROps - Install a Solution 1.6.VROps - Manage User Access Control 1.7.vROps - Configure an LDAP Import Source 2. Dashboard Overview 2.1.vROps - Getting Started Dashboard 2.2.vROps - Workload Balance Dashboard 2.3.vROps - Capacity Overview Dashboard 2.4.vROps - vsan Capacity Overview Dashboard 2.5.vROps - Capacity Reclaimable Dashboard 2.6.vROps - Cluster Utilization Dashboard 2.7.vROps - Host Utilization Dashboard 2.8.vROps - VM Utilization Dashboard 2.9.vROps - Datastore Utilization Dashboard 2

3 1. Installation and Configuration Learn about installing and configuration of vrealize Operations 3

4 1.1 vrops - Deploy vrealize Ops Manager click to see the topic media This video walks you through the simple deployment of the vrealize Operations 6 OVF and starting up the VM. 1.2 vrops - Express Install 4

5 click to see the topic media This video walks you through the extremely simple express install vrealize Operations Manager which will help you get started with the product in a matter of minutes. 1.3 vrops - Architecture 5

6 click to see the topic media vrealize Operations Manager has a new more powerful, flexible and scalable architecture. This video will describe the new architecture highlighting the changes from the dual VM vapp of previous versions to the new node and cluster setup. 1.4 vrops - Scalability 6

7 click to see the topic media vrealize Operations Manager has a new more powerful, flexible and scalable architecture. This video will describe the new architecture's scale out ability which leverages the new node and cluster setup to scale to the largest of environments. 1.5 vrops - Install a Solution 7

8 click to see the topic media This video will walk you through expanding your vrealize Operations environment by leveraging a Management Pack. These Management These are found on VMware Solution Exchange and could include Management Packs for storage, network, application, Hybrid cloud, etc. 1.6 VROps - Manage User Access Control 8

9 click to see the topic media This video will walk you through and explain the process to configure users and assign them roles and capabilities in vrealize Operations Manager 6.0. Users can not only be assigned roles and capabilities but you can also limit wh at objects a user can see, modify, update or take actions upon. 1.7 vrops - Configure an LDAP Import Source 9

10 click to see the topic media This video will walk you through and explain the process to configure an LDAP data source to bring in users and assign them roles and capabilities in vrealize Operations Manager 6.0. Users can not only be assigned roles and capabilities but you can also limit what objects a user can see, modify, update or take actions upon. 10

11 2. Dashboard Overview Learn about the many dashboards that vrealize Operations Manager offers out of the box 11

12 2.1 vrops - Getting Started Dashboard vrealize Operations - Getting Started Dashboard Increasing time to value and improving user experience is a primary goal for vrealize Operations. To aid customers in quickly operationalizing their environments, the improved Getting Started dashboard provides a guide to answering the most frequent questions of IT staff. Click to see topic media 2.2 vrops - Workload Balance Dashboard vrealize Operations - Workload Balance Dashboard Welcome to your lights-out datacenter! With vrealize Operations, automated workload balance is easier and more controllable than ever. This latest release of vrealize Operation gives you the ability to balance workloads across clusters and datastores, simple controls to govern how much balance you want based on your business needs, three ways to activate it (automated, scheduled or manual), and a powerful dashboard from which you can view and regulate everything related to balance. 12

13 Click to see topic media 2.3 vrops - Capacity Overview Dashboard vrealize Operations - Capacity Overview Dashboard The Capacity Overview Dashboard provides an overview of the total environment capacity for compute and storage. Additionally, you can easily understand the reclamation opportunities for compute and storage across your monitored environment. 13

14 Click to see topic media 2.4 vrops - vsan Capacity Overview Dashboard vrealize Operations - vsan Capacity Overview The dashboard simplifies vsan capacity management by providing you an aggregated view of capacity contributors and utilization for all your vsan clusters. It also provides transparency into your return on investments on all flash vsan clusters by showing you the storage savings achieved due to deduplication and compression. 14

15 Click to see topic media 2.5 vrops - Capacity Reclaimable Dashboard vrealize Operations - Capacity Reclaimable Dashboard The Capacity Reclaimable Dashboard helps you quickly find and reclaim unused disk, CPU and memory from your virtual environment. 15

16 Click to see topic media 2.6 vrops - Cluster Utilization Dashboard vrealize Operations - Cluster Utilization Dashboard The Cluster Utilization Dashboard provides cluster usage details for CPU, memory, disk IO and network throughput. 16

17 Click to see topic media 2.7 vrops - Host Utilization Dashboard vrealize Operations - Host Utilization Dashboard The Host Utilization Dashboard allows you to identify the Hosts have the highest utilization and resource constraints for CPU, Memory, Disk IO and Network usage. 17

18 Click to see topic media 2.8 vrops - VM Utilization Dashboard vrealize Operations - VM Utilization Dashboard The VM Utilization Dashboard helps the VI Administrator to capture the utilization trends of any virtual machine in their environment. 18

19 Click to see topic media 2.9 vrops - Datastore Utilization Dashboard vrealize Operations - Datastore Utilization Dashboard The Datastore Utilization Dashboard provides a quick overview of all of your datastores. The dashboard features a heat-map that gives you visibility to all datastores, organized by vcenter and by Datacenter. 19

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