Specifications

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Figure 60. The PRO Tips console provides success-failure feedback when implementing the PRO tip
Figure 60 shows the Operations Manager console after implementing the PRO tip. The yellow warning
icon is gone from the Pro Tip console and the Order Tracker Web server farm and all of the Web
servers now have green check marks indicating that everything is with the pre-defined operational
thresholds. You can also see that the Order Tracker Web farm has had an additional Web server
added, and now consists of three Web servers.
Delegated Administration
In large organizations, it can be quite cumbersome to require all virtual machine management to be
performed through one central location. Many organizations are global in nature and need localized
management capabilities to enable them to respond more effectively to the needs of the organization.
While self-service provisioning fulfils some of the end-user needs, it doesn’t address the full range of
management requirements that some organizations require. To address these issues VMM 2008 added
the ability to create delegated administrators. Delegated administrators can perform the full range of
actions that are available to the VMM administrator. However, delegated administrators are only
authorized to perform these functions on the range of VMs, hosts, and clusters that they have
permissions to manage.