VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials

Explore virtualization fundamentals and real-world solutions for the modern network administrator

Overview

• Written by VMware expert Lauren Malhoit, this book takes a look at vCenter Operations Manager from a practical point of view that every administrator can appreciate
• Understand, troubleshoot, and design your virtual environment in a better and more efficient way than you ever have before
• A step-by-step and learn-by-example guide to understanding the ins and outs of vCenter Operations Manager

In Detail

vCenter Operations Manager offers a powerful solution to administrating a large virtual machine deployment, allowing you to automate processes and plan your resource capacity to maximize hardware efficiency.

This book contains step-by-step tutorials, detailed descriptions, and real-world solutions that will allow you to overcome the complexity of a powerful but often overwhelming suite of tools for the modern network administrator. Install, configure, troubleshoot, and expand your virtualization deployment with this essential handbook.

The vCenter Operations Management Suite contains so much information within one solution that it can be intimidating. It can make administrators feel overwhelmed or think that they are not using it properly. This book is a practical guide to using vCenter Operations Manager for the everyday administrator. It not only gives step-by-step instructions but also makes admins more comfortable with the user interface so they can maintain, troubleshoot, and design their infrastructure and virtual environment in the most efficient way possible.

VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials guides you through installing and configuring vCenter Operations Manager and shows you how to maximize its potential. vCenter Operations Manager helps you maintain and troubleshoot your VMware environment as well as your physical environment. It goes beyond using the simple alarms vCenter gives you by explaining the virtual environment and how to track, explain, and find solutions to anomalous behavior. You’re taught how to deploy the power of vCops to maximize your ability to plan capacity and design your environment, enabling more efficient use of your hardware than ever before.

What you will learn from this book

• Install and configure VMware vCenter Operations Manager
• Connect VMware vCenter Operations Manager to your virtual server environment, VMware Horizon View environment, EMC VNX storage analytics, and VMware Log Insight
• Troubleshoot various performance issues
• Plan your hardware capacity efficiently
• Discover the differences between “one off” events and consistent stress within your VMs and storage
• Explore the difference between normal behavior and anomalous behaviour
• Find specific events that cause issues within your environment

Approach

This book features step-by-step guides as well as practical, real-world examples, exploiting the premise that there’s never just one way to narrow down problems. It tackles scenarios by going through different workflows to find the answers you need.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to vCenter Operations Manager
Chapter 2: Installing vCenter Operations Manager
Chapter 3: Dashboards and Badges
Chapter 4: Troubleshooting Our Virtual Environment with vCenter Operations Manager
Chapter 5: Capacity Planning with vCenter Operations Manager
Chapter 6: Reports
Chapter 7: vCenter Configuration Manager
Chapter 8: Log Insight
Chapter 9: VMware Horizon View Integration with vCenter Operations Manager
Chapter 10: vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
Chapter 11: EMC Storage Analytics