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Contents VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 5 1 Introducing Key Features and Concepts 7 vCenter Operations Manager Features 7 Main Concepts of vCenter Operations Manager 8 Metric Concepts for vCenter Operations Manager 9 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment 11 Object Type Icons in the Inventory Pane 11 Badge Concepts for vCenter Operations Manager 12 Major Badges in vCenter Operations Manager 12 Working with Metrics and Charts on the All Metrics Tab 21 3 Viewing Members
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 7 Working with Groups 73 Create a Group Type 74 Edit a Group Type 74 Delete a Group Type 75 Create a Group 75 Managing Groups 79 Application Custom Group 82 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager 85 Create a New Policy 86 Modify an Existing Policy 106 Modify Summary, Views, and Reports Settings 107 9 Monitor the Performance of vCenter Operations Manager 111 Check the Health State of vCenter Operations Manager 111 Monitor Specific M
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide ® The VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide provides information about using VMware vCenter™ Operations Manager to monitor your virtual environment. Intended Audience This guide is intended for administrators of VMware vSphere who want to familiarize themselves with workflow tasks to monitor and manage the performance of the vCenter Operations Manager virtual environment. VMware, Inc.
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Introducing Key Features and Concepts 1 vCenter Operations Managerprovides monitoring functionality for your virtual environment. Understanding important features and concepts of vCenter Operations Manager helps you use the product effectively.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Main Concepts of vCenter Operations Manager vCenter Operations Manager uses certain concepts that can help you understand the product, its interface, and how to use it. Attributes and Metrics vCenter Operations Manager collects several kinds of data for each inventory object. For example, for a virtual machine, vCenter Operations Manager might receive data about free disk space, CPU load, and available memory.
Chapter 1 Introducing Key Features and Concepts Alerts and Faults vCenter Operations Manager generates alerts when events occur on the monitored objects, when data analysis indicates deviations from normal metric values, or when a problem occurs with one of the vCenter Operations Manager components. Events that the vCenter Serverpublishes are the main source for faults.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Table 1-1. Major Metric Concepts (Continued) Metric Description Limit Maximum amount that an object can obtain from a resource. The limit sets the upper bound for CPU, memory, or disk I/O resources that you allocate and configure in vCenter Server. The usage amount is less than or equal to the limit amount. The demand amount can be greater than the limit amount. The limit amount is less than or equal to the provisioned amount.
Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment 2 To use vCenter Operations Manager to monitor your virtual environment, you must understand the icons, badges, and key metric concepts used in the product.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Table 2-1. Object Type Icons (Continued) Icon Description Virtual machine that is in powered-on state Custom group created by vCenter Operations Manager or by administrators By default, objects in the inventory pane are grouped by hosts and clusters. You can select Datastores from the drop-down menu at the top of the inventory pane to switch the way objects are grouped.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Table 2-2. Object Health States Badge Icon Description User Action The health of the object is normal. No attention required. The object is experiencing some level of problems. Check the Details tab and take appropriate action. The object might have serious problems. Check the Details tab and take appropriate action as soon as possible. The object is either not functioning properly or will stop functioning soon.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Table 2-3. Object Workload States Badge Icon Description User Action Workload on the object is not excessive. No attention required. The object is experiencing some high resource workloads. 1 2 Workload on the object is approaching its capacity in at least one area. 1 2 Workload on the object is at or over its capacity in one or more areas.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment The Anomalies score ranges between 0 (good) and 100 (bad). The badge changes its color based on the badge score thresholds that are set by the vCenter Operations Manager administrator. Table 2-4. Object Anomalies States Badge Icon Description User Action The Anomalies score is normal. No attention required. The Anomalies score exceeds the normal range.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Table 2-5. Object Faults States Badge Icon Description User Action No faults are registered on the selected object. No attention required. Faults of low importance are registered on the selected object. Check the Details tab to find more information and take appropriate action. Faults of high importance are registered on the selected object.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Table 2-6. Object Risk States (Continued) Badge Icon Description User Action No data is available. The object is offline. Using the Time Remaining Badge Under the Risk Badge The vCenter Operations Manager Time Remaining badge measures the time before a resource associated with an object reaches capacity. This badge indicates the available timeframe to provision or load balance the physical or virtual resources for a selected object.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Using the Capacity Remaining Badge Under the Risk Badge The vCenter Operations Manager Capacity Remaining badge measures the number of additional virtual machines that the object can handle before reaching capacity. The remaining virtual machines count represents the number of virtual machines that can be deployed on the selected object, based on the current amount of unused resources and the average virtual machine profile for the last "n" weeks.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Table 2-9. Stress States (Continued) Badge Icon Description User Action The object is experiencing regular resource shortage. Check and take appropriate action as soon as possible. Most of the resources on the object are constantly insufficient. The object might stop functioning properly. Act immediately. No data is available for the Stress score. The object is offline.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Defining Efficiency to Optimize the Environment The vCenter Operations Manager Efficiency badge identifies the potential opportunities to improve the performance or cost of your virtual environment. Efficiency accounts for the waste and infrastructure density in your environment. A large amount of wasted resources combined with a low density ratio generates a poor efficiency score. The Efficiency score ranges between 0 (bad) and 100 (good).
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Table 2-12. Reclaimable Waste States (Continued) Badge Icon Description User Action Most of the resources on the selected object are wasted. Select Planning > Views to identify underused resources. No data is available for any of the metrics for the time period. The object is offline. A vCenter Operations Manager administrator can change the badge score thresholds.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide The Health Tree Pane The Health Tree pane displays the location of the currently selected object in the hierarchy of your virtual infrastructure. You can check all parent and child objects related to the currently selected object. For example, the sample hierarchy shows the parent and child objects in the virtual infrastructure. The red icon indicates a presence of a potential problem in the vCenter Server object.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Metric Chart Pane Buttons On the All Metrics page, you can use the buttons of the Metric Chart pane to customize the appearance of charts, and add or delete charts. Global Control Buttons These buttons control the appearance of all graphs that you open in the Metric Chart pane.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Button Tooltip Icon Description Open date/time controls Opens the date and time widget for you to select the period to display on the metric graph. Remove all graphs Deletes all graphs from the Metric Chart pane. Chart-Specific Buttons These buttons control the specific chart to which they are attached. Some chart-specific buttons are available only when you view graphs split by period.
Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment 3 The Environment tab allows you to look at the objects in your virtual environment from different perspectives. The Overview Tab The Overview tab provides a visual representation of the population of your virtual environment by object types. You can click objects to highlight their related parent and child objects. You can compare the scores of related objects to narrow down the possible causes for a bad badge score.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide n “Find an ESX Host that Has Resources for More Virtual Machines,” on page 27 n “Find a Cluster that Has Resources Available for More Virtual Machines,” on page 28 n “Ranking the Health, Risk, and Efficiency Scores,” on page 28 n “View the Compliance Details,” on page 29 n “View a List of Members,” on page 31 n “Overview of Relationships,” on page 31 Check the Performance of Your Virtual Environment On the Overview tab under the Environmen
Chapter 3 Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment The Custom Overview Chart The Custom Overview chart is a bubble chart that allows you to compare objects by their badge values. By using the Custom Overview chart, you can draw better inferences from the data that vCenter Operations Manager collects. The chart presents data by four dimensions, using the following variables: color, size, x-axis, and y-axis.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 6 On the Details tab, review the Resources pane and the Workload graphs to assess the potential capacity for new virtual machines. If one or more resources of the host are approaching their limits, you might not want to add a virtual machine to this ESX host. What to do next If the selected ESX host has enough resources, you can add the new virtual machines.
Chapter 3 Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment When you compare the Efficiency scores, you can analyse visually the distribution of resources among child objects of the selected object. When you compare the Risk scores, you can prioritize objects that need your attention sooner than others. You can click the names of objects in the Members List to navigate to their Details tabs.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Prerequisites n Select the template for which you are evaluating results. See “View the Compliance Details,” on page 29. n If you do not see the name of the object for which you are resolving non-compliant results, correlate the name that appears in VCM with the name used in vCenter Operations Manager. See “Correlate Compliance Object Names,” on page 31. Procedure 1 On the VMware vCenter Configuration Manager page, click Login.
Chapter 3 Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment Correlate Compliance Object Names If the object name in the VCM template results does not match the name of the object in vCenter Operations Manager, use VCM to correlate the object names and ensure that you are evaluating and remediating the same object. To verify that you are working with the same object, use the data in VCM to correlate the object name, the guest object name, and the DNS name.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Relationship Graph Pane Buttons You can use the relationship graph pane buttons to control the appearance of objects in the relationship graph. Table 3-1. Relationship Graph Pane Buttons Button Tooltip Button Icon Description Zoom to fit Resizes the view so that all related objects fit in the relationship graph. Enter pan mode Allows you to pan the relationship graph.
Chapter 3 Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment Procedure 1 In the inventory pane, click the object for which you want to view relationships. 2 Click the Relationships tab under the Environment tab. The relationship graph and properties of the object are displayed. (You can also directly select the object and see its object properties by double-clicking the object from the relationship graph.) 3 Use the Relationships graph pane buttons to examine objects in the graph.
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Troubleshooting with vCenter Operations Manager 4 You can use the monitoring features of vCenter Operations Manager to troubleshoot performance and capacity problems in the virtual environment.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Identifying the Cause Consider these items to help find and isolate the cause of a problem: n The symptoms that appear in vCenter Operations Manager. For example, what are the Workload, Faults, and Anomalies scores? n The population affected. Which objects are experiencing the symptoms? n The time frame of the problem.
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting with vCenter Operations Manager 3 On the Alerts tab, review the list and the information given for each alert. You can use the columns and filters to sort the alert list. The alert information provides actionable data for identifying and resolving a problem. For example, it shows whether a resource is unavailable or running out of capacity. You can address the problem in the vSphere Client.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 3 Identify the cause of the health problem depending on the object that you selected in the inventory pane. Selected Object n n n n World vCenter Server Datacenter Cluster Action a In the Health pane, identify the sub-badge that indicates poor score. b c d Click the Environment tab under the Operations tab. Select the sub-badge that indicated poor score on the Dashboard page.
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting with vCenter Operations Manager 2 Click the View tab under the Planning tab and select the Stressed Hosts and Clusters - List view. The objects that appear in this view are overused and have fewer resources than the virtual machines demand. What to do next Assign less work to these hosts and clusters or reconfigure the capacity appropriate to the workload.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide n Determine the Timeframe and Nature of a Health Issue on page 43 The Dashboard provides information to help you determine the nature and timeframe of a health issue, including whether it is a transient or chronic problem. n Determine the Cause of a Problem with a Specific Object on page 44 Determining a cause of a problem with a specific object involves identifying whether the problem is transient or chronic in the virtual environment.
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting with vCenter Operations Manager 4 Point to the object state other than green to view the workload details. 5 Double-click a related object to investigate why it is experiencing heavy resource demands. 6 On the Details tab under the Operations tab, you can check the percentage of resource use that might be causing the high Workload score.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Understand the metric relationships in the memory graphs and solve the underlying resource problem for the virtual machine. Identify the Underlying Memory Resource Problem for Clusters and Hosts When you navigate through a vCenter Operations Manager workflow and identify a cluster or a host with a potential problem, check the CPU metric graphs to identify a possible resolution.
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting with vCenter Operations Manager Identify Events that Occurred when an Object Experienced Performance Degradation Identifying when the abnormal events started to cause performance degradation and the trend of the problem in vCenter Operations Manager involves examining the Health scores of the object and its related objects.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Prerequisites In the vCenter Operations Manager interface, verify that the Dashboard tab is open. Procedure 1 In the Health pane, check whether the Weather Map of Health displays colors other than green. (The weather map is most appropriate for grouped objects such as the World, vCenters, and Datacenters.) Colors that dominate the map over the past six hours indicate a larger trend. 2 If a trend exists, click the Health badge.
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting with vCenter Operations Manager 5 Identify the top transient resource consumers, click the Scoreboard tab under the Operations tab, and select the Workload badge. 6 To filter the objects and related objects by Workload, click the Status Filter buttons to view only the red, orange, and yellow states. You can prioritize the virtual machines with high Workload scores and move them to a less resourceconstrained object.
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Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager 5 vCenter Operations Manager provides workflows for assessing efficient use of the infrastructure as well as risks to future capacity. Planning for capacity risk involves analyzing, optimizing, and forecasting data to determine how much capacity is available and whether you make efficient use of the infrastructure.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide What to do next To further investigate which resources constrain the virtual machine count, click the Views tab and select the Virtual Machine Capacity - Summary view. Identify Clusters with the Space for Virtual Machines Identify the clusters in a datacenter that have space for your next set of virtual machines. Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client and that vCenter Operations Manager is open.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager 5 In the heat map, point to the cluster area to view the percentage of remaining capacity. A color other than green indicates a potential problem. 6 Click Details for the ESX host in the pop-up window to investigate the resources for that host. What to do next Adjust workloads to balance resources as necessary.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 4 In the heat map, point to each datacenter area to view the waste statistics. 5 If a color other than green indicates a potential problem, click Details for the datastore in the pop-up window to investigate the disk space and disk I/O resources. What to do next Identify the red, orange, or yellow datastores with the highest amount of wasted space.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager 2 In the heat map gallery, narrow the scope from the drop-down menu to display the virtual machines with waste across datastores. Option Action Focus Area Select Storage. Smallest Box Shows Select VM. Description Select For each datastore, which VMs have the most wasted disk space? 3 Click the For each datastore, which VMs have the most wasted disk space? view.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client and that vCenter Operations Manager is open. Procedure 1 Click the Analysis tab. 2 In the heat map gallery, narrow the scope from the drop-down menu to display the datastore waste. Option Action Focus Area Select Storage. Smallest Box Shows Select Host.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager Identify the Consolidation Ratio Trend for a Datacenter or Cluster The consolidation ratio trend of a datacenter or cluster helps you understand the behavior and performance of your virtual machines and applications. Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client and that vCenter Operations Manager is open. Procedure 1 In the inventory pane, select the object that you want to inspect.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 2 Click the Views tab under the Planning tab and select Virtual Machine Capacity Usage - Summary. If the Host CPU and Memory use is high, the virtual machine does not have enough capacity to perform assigned work. What to do next Determine whether you can optimize performance for this virtual machine by assigning capacity to match typical load demand.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager 2 Click the arrow under the Efficiency badge to expand the detailed view. 3 In the Reclaimable Waste pane, identify the powered off virtual machines and delete the virtual click the Reclaimable Waste badge. 4 In the Views tab, select the Powered-Off Virtual Machines view. The virtual machines that appear in this view are powered off and you can restart the machines in the vSphere Client.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide What to do next Assign more work to the underused virtual machines or reconfigure the capacity appropriate to the virtual machine load. Determine the Trend of Waste for a Virtual Machine To optimize the capacity for your virtual environment, determine the trend of powered off, idle, undersized, and oversized virtual machines over a period of time to help you identify wasted resources.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager is the maximum configuration of the virtual machines in the bin and the use of the profile is the average usage of the virtual machines in the bin. The value of the virtual machines assigned to the profile and the use is the average of the virtual machines assigned to the profile. The right pane includes information on the smallest and largest hosts.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 7 Click Next when your configuration selections are complete. 8 On the Ready to Complete page, check the parameters of your what-if scenario and click Finish to view the outcomes. vCenter Operations Manager applies the scenario to the view you selected and shows current capacity compared to the expected capacity if you add the virtual machines to the target object.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager vCenter Operations Manager applies the scenario to the view you selected and shows current capacity compared to the expected capacity if you add the virtual machines to the target object. What to do next If you have more than one scenario for a view, you can combine and compare the outcomes. To save the information, export the scenario results.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide vCenter Operations Manager applies the scenario to the view that you selected. The scenario forecast appears in the chart as a gray dotted line. You can compare the actual current capacity to the expected capacity if you apply the changes you specified in the hardware change scenario. What to do next If you have more than one scenario, you can combine or compare the scenario outcomes.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager Procedure 1 In the What-If Scenarios pane, select Combine from the drop-down menu. The combined values for all what-if scenarios appear as dotted lines in the Forecasted area of the view. 2 To view aggregate scenario values in tabular form, click the Table link. What to do next You can compare the results of different what-if scenarios to determine the best course of action.
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Working with Faults and Alerts 6 vCenter Operations Manager generates alerts when events occur on the monitored objects, when data analysis indicates deviations from normal metric values, or when a problem occurs with one of the vCenter Operations Manager components. Events that the vCenter Server publishes are the main source for faults.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Device-Specific Faults Faults occur on a resource, but at times can represent a problem that is more specific. For example, a vSphere host can lose network connectivity, but the problem is also specific to a NIC within the host. Another example is when a vSphere host loses connectivity to a storage device. The fault manifests itself on the host, but it is also specific to the storage device to which the connectivity was lost.
Chapter 6 Working with Faults and Alerts Types of Alerts vCenter Operations Manager generates several types of alerts. Double-click alerts in the list to view the alert details. Badge Score Alerts Badge score alerts are triggered when a badge changes its color. Badge colors change based on the hard thresholds that you set in the Configuration dialog box. Alerts can be triggered for the Workflow, Anomalies, Time Remaining, Capacity Remaining, Stress, Waste, and Density badges.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide External Alert Notifications An administrator can configure vCenter Operations Manager to send email and SNMP notifications when an alert triggers. SMTP and SNMP notifications are set on the vCenter Operations Manager Administration Web page. The URL format is https://VM-IP/admin/, where VM-IP is the IP address or fully qualified host name of the UI VM virtual machine that is part of the vCenter Operations Manager virtual appliance.
Chapter 6 Working with Faults and Alerts 3 In the Alerts list, filter the list by the Capacity Remaining badge to view alerts that address capacity. When you double-click an alert, vCenter Operations Manager opens a pop-up window displaying the alert details. What to do next To find aggregate information for used and total capacity and capacity trends, click the Views tab under the Planning tab and select the Capacity badge.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Take Ownership of an Alert Users can take ownership of alerts in the Alerts list. Owning an alert means that you are responsible for taking the necessary remediation actions, and prevents other users from suspending or suppressing the alert. This can reduce overlapping efforts when multiple operators manage alerts. The user names of alert owners appear in the User Name column of the Alerts list.
Chapter 6 Working with Faults and Alerts Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client, and vCenter Operations Manager is open. NOTE You do not need administrative privileges to suppress or suspend alerts. Procedure 1 Click the Alerts tab. 2 In the Alerts list, click the alert you want to suppress. 3 (Optional) To select multiple alerts in the list, press the Shift or Control key and click to select the alerts. 4 5 Click the Suppress button .
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Cancel a Fault Alert You can deactivate fault alerts if they are no longer valid. Fault alerts are triggered by events that are retrieved from the vCenter Server. All the fault events that appear in vCenter Operations Manager have associated remediation events that will clear the fault badge score and the associated alert.
Chapter 6 Working with Faults and Alerts 2 Click the Alertstab. 3 In the Alerts list, click the compliance alert you are canceling. You can press the Shift or Control key while you click to select multiple compliance alerts in the list. 4 Click the Cancel Fault or Compliance Alert button. 5 Click Yes to confirm. The canceled compliance alert is removed from the Alerts list and vCenter Operations Manager updates the Compliance badge score and the Risk score.
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Working with Groups 7 Groups allow you to create your own containers for objects in your environment. vCenter Operations Manager has several fixed container objects that are defined mainly by the adapters used. These containers include the World group, vCenter Server objects, Datacenter objects, ESX and Cluster objects, and Datastore objects that appear in the inventory view. Fixed containers follow the structure of your virtual environment.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Each group must be assigned a group type. Group types are categories that you define to help organize the groups that you create. You use the Configuration dialog box to create group types. NOTE All operations on a group are based on the current members of the group. You cannot go back in time and run operations based on the group members at that point in the past.
Chapter 7 Working with Groups 4 Click the Edit icon 5 In the text box that displays the Group Type name, make changes. 6 Click OK to confirm the editing change. at the top of the dialog box. Delete a Group Type Delete a group type when you decide to no longer use it to organize groups in your inventory. A group type is a named category used to help organize custom groups of objects that you create. You can delete group types that you or other users create.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Specify the Basic Parameters of the New Group When you create a new group, you must specify the basic details of the group. Prerequisites If not group types exist, you must define at least one group type before you can create a group. See “Create a Group Type,” on page 74. Procedure 1 From the Actions drop-down menu, select Create new group. 2 On the Edit group details page of the New Group wizard, fill in the basic parameters of the group.
Chapter 7 Working with Groups What to do next Set the rules that determine which objects belong to the group or select these objects manually. Define Group Members You can populate groups either automatically based on rules or manually. The mechanism for adding group members depends on the option that you select from the Membership Type drop-down menu on the Edit group details page. Table 7-1.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Create Whitelists and Blacklists for Group Members Optionally, you can control whether specific objects are included in or excluded from your group, irrespective of the membership rules that you set. You list the objects that are exceptions to the rules that you specified while you create a rule-based group on the Define membership page of the New Group wizard. You can modify these lists later, by using the Edit Group dialog box.
Chapter 7 Working with Groups 2 Select the check boxes in front of the objects that you want to add to the group, and click Add. If you select groups, these groups will be nested in the new group that you create. 3 Click Next. Example: Nesting Groups in groups Assume that you have created a group that is called group1, and you want to nest group1 in a new group, called new group. 1 From the Actions drop-down menu, select Create new group.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Modify a Group You can change the settings that you applied to a group to add or remove members that are included in the group, or to change how vCenter Operations Manager updates group members. Prerequisites You must have a vCenter Operations Manager admin or vCenter Server Administrator role, or vCenter Operations Manager Admin permission assigned to your user name on the vCenter Server level in order to create or edit groups.
Chapter 7 Working with Groups 4 Change the group membership type. Option Description Make a manual group dynamic a b On the Define membership page of the Edit Group dialog box, select the Advanced settings check box. Click OK to confirm. All group members are added to the Objects to always include list. You can create the rules for dynamic addition of group members. Make a dynamic group manual a b On the Define membership page of the Edit Group dialog box, deselect the Advanced settings check box.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Prerequisites You must have a vCenter Operations Manager admin or vCenter Server Administrator role, or vCenter Operations Manager Admin permission assigned to your user name on the vCenter Server level in order to create or edit groups. Verify that you have created at least one group. Procedure 1 In the groups inventory view, select the group that you want to clone. 2 From the Actions drop-down menu, select Clone group.
Chapter 7 Working with Groups Type Description Application Definition Describes an application definition. For example, name and description. Application Describes an application instance and its member entities. You can also manually create a custom group based on a selected application. For example, you can specify an application, Tomcat, and then create a custom group with a group of virtual machines all running Tomcat. For more information, see “Create a Group,” on page 75.
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Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager 8 An administrator can modify the way vCenter Operations Manager analyzes and presents data in the dashboard, in different views, and reports. All settings in the Configuration window are optional, and allow you to adapt the appearance and operation of vCenter Operations Manager to your environment and preferences. NOTE The settings that are available to you depend on the license that you have.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide The priority of policies is important for objects that belong to more that one group. If an object belongs to two or more groups and different policies are assigned to each group, the object is associated with the policy that has the highest priority.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager n Modify Capacity and Time Remaining Settings on page 94 Select whether to use stress to account for spikes and peaks, specify the bases for Capacity and Time Remaining, and, select Demand and Allocation models for compute resources. n Modify Usable Capacity Settings on page 96 If you activate the use of usable capacity, you can modify usable capacity settings to specify High Availability, calculation, and buffer rules.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 4 From the Clone from drop-down menu, select an existing policy to reuse its settings. Option Description Default Policy Select to apply the Default policy that is associated with all groups for which no other policy is selected. Original Default Select to use the original policy settings of vCenter Operations Manager.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager 2 Create a new policy or open an existing policy for editing. Option To create a new policy To modify an existing policy Description In the Manage Policies pane, click the Create Policy icon . In the Manage Policies pane, select the policy that you want to associate to groups and click the Edit Policy icon . 3 Under Policy Details, click 1b Associations.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 2 Create a new policy or open an existing policy for editing. Option To create a new policy To modify an existing policy Description In the Manage Policies pane, click the Create Policy icon . In the Manage Policies pane, select the policy that you want to associate to groups and click the Edit Policy icon . 3 Under Configure badges, click 2a Infrastructure badge thresholds.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager 4 Slide the color icons on the selected axis to modify the default values and set the ranges to show the green, yellow, orange, or red badge. NOTE You cannot revert the changes you apply to badge thresholds. Topic Default Badge Threshold Values lists the default threshold values for your reference. 5 (Optional) To enable or disable a color range for a badge, click the icon of that color.
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VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 2 Create a new policy or open an existing policy for editing. Option To create a new policy To modify an existing policy Description In the Manage Policies pane, click the Create Policy icon . In the Manage Policies pane, select the policy that you want to associate to groups and click the Edit Policy icon . 3 Under Configure badges, click 2c Groups badge thresholds.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager 3 Click 3a Capacity and time remaining and modify the settings. Option Description Spikes and Peaks Determines whether to take the more conservative approach of using stress in accounting for spikes and peaks in capacity use. Capacity Remaining is based on: Choose the model for capacity calculations: n Physical or Configured Capacity. Uses physical capacity in metric calculations.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Modify Usable Capacity Settings If you activate the use of usable capacity, you can modify usable capacity settings to specify High Availability, calculation, and buffer rules. An administrator can modify any policy in vCenter Operations Manager at any time. The changes that the administrator applies affect all users.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager 4 Click OK or Finish to save your settings, or select another option to configure. 5 Click Done to close the Configuration dialog box. The usable capacity settings are reconfigured. Example: Examples of Usable Capacity Global Settings These examples show how some of the settings are used.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 5 Enter Allocation Overcommit Ratios An allocation model considers allocated resources as used in resource calculations. Allocation or demand models for compute resources are configured in section 3a Capacity and Time Remaining. Option Description CPU Sets a numeric ratio for virtual-to-physical overcommitment. Memory Sets a percentage ratio for virtual-to-physical overcommitment.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager 3 Click 4a Powered off and idle VMs and change the settings for powered-off and idle virtual machines. Option Description % Time Powered-off threshold Percentage of time during which the virtual machine is powered off. A virtual machine is considered as powered off by using the following calculation.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 2 Create a new policy or open an existing policy for editing. Option To create a new policy To modify an existing policy Description In the Manage Policies pane, click the Create Policy icon In the Manage Policies pane, select the policy that you want to associate to groups and click the Edit Policy icon . 3 In the Configure state-related thresholds section, click 4b Oversized and undersized VMs.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager Example: Oversized and Undersized Virtual Machine Settings The following examples show how some of the settings are used. % oversized threshold If the threshold is 70 percent, a virtual machine that has an average capacity use of 60 percent is considered oversized. A virtual machine with an average capacity use of 75 percent is not oversized.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Option Description is more than number% for the entire range Sets the amount of nonusage in the entire environment defined by the % underuse thresholds, calculated for the time interval over which the nonusage is analyzed. You define the time range in the Manage Display Settings section of the Configuration dialog box.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager You set the percentage of affordable stress or underuse in the 4c Underused and stressed section of the Edit Policy dialog box. Determine the area ratio for which you can afford to have high stress or low use in your environment. To determine the stress threshold for a day, multiply the stress area ratio by 100.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 4 (Optional) To trigger an alert each time a fault occurs on the vCenter Server, select Generate alerts on individual faults. vCenter Operations Manager calculates fault badge scores based on the number of events retrieved from the vCenter Server and does not weigh the importance of the events.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager Option Description Eliminate non-linear functions for data sets less than number of data points points Specifies that the best fit function use the linear function when the number of data points is less than this setting. Force Forecast Method Forces the forecast function for trend analysis. The linear method provides a true representation of the range.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Outlier Detection and Smoothing Filters in vCenter Operations Manager vCenter Operations Manager provides data filtering techniques to address outliers and temporary fluctuations in data points. Outlier detection and smoothing remove anomalies or sudden changes in patterns during maintenance or other cycles that might mislead the trend and forecast calculations.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager You can associate a policy with a group while you create or edit groups, and while you create or modify policies. While creating or modifying a group, you can select the policy that you want to associate with the group from a list of already defined policies. While creating or modifying a policy, you can select the groups that you want to associate with the policy.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 3 Change the settings to specify how information appears in the Planning tab. Option Description Summary n Summary trend intervals. Time intervals for which information for objects and resources appears as a bar graph on the planning Summary tab. Trend Views n Default interval. Time intervals for which information on the Views trend graphs or information tables appear. Trends are based on information retroactively from the present.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager Interval start If you select Current interval and the current month is September, the report provides data for September. If you select Offset and specify 1 interval ago, the report provides data for August. Report interval If you select a monthly report period with weekly report intervals, your monthly report includes a weekly breakdown of the data.
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Monitor the Performance of vCenter Operations Manager 9 vCenter Operations Manager collects metrics about its own performance, as it does for other monitored objects. You can view information about the health, alerts, and metrics of the vCenter Operations Manager object. Prerequisites You must be logged in to the vSphere UI of vCenter Operations Manager.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Monitor Specific Metrics for vCenter Operations Manager You can view the behavior of a specific metric for vCenter Operations Manager such as Alert Count Critical, Availability, and so on or compare the behavior of multiple metrics for the product to perform deeper analysis. Prerequisites You must be logged in to the vSphere UI of vCenter Operations Manager. Procedure 1 Click About and click Self Info at the lower right.
Index A adapter-defined custom group 82 adapter-managed groups 73 address, virtual machine problem 50 address, datastore problem 51 administrator, vSphere 5 alert cancel 67 release ownership 67 suppress 67 suspend 67 take ownership 67 alert types, overall trend 67 alerts canceling faults 70 capacity-related 66 compliance 70 critical 67 definition 64 ownership 68 releasing ownership 68 suppressing 68 suspending 69 troubleshooting 36 types 64 allocation model 94, 97, 101 analyzing data, capacity risk 47 anom
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide concepts attributes 8 dynamic thresholds 8 metrics 8 concepts, defined 7 consolidation ratio trend 53 correlate compliance object names 31 cost savings 21 critical alerts 67 custom overview chart 26 customizing policies 85 D dashboard remaining capacity 45 settings 107 used capacity 45 datastore scenarios 59 datastores space for virtual machines 49 waste 49 with high latency 51 default time window 107 definition, alerts 64 definition of groups 73 del
Index name 76 nesting 78 new 76 ready to complete 79 rule-based 73 rules 77 settings 76 types 73, 74 whitelists 78 groups policies, cloning 87 H hardware scenarios 59 health anomalies 14 defining 12 sub-badges 12 timeframe 43 transient or chronic 43 workload 13, 14 health tree buttons 22 health weather map 13 heat maps identify resource consumers 42 identifying latency 51 help desk issue 36 host, workload 48 host scenarios 59 hosts stressed 38 with high latency 51 I icons for objects 11 identify critical
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide problem events 63 product features 7 R reclaim, resources 53 relationship graph pane buttons 32 relationships 31, 32 Relationships tab 31 Relationships tab, object properties 32 remediation events 63 removing groups 82 report controls 107 resolving faults 63 resource details 32 resources identifying underlying issues 41 memory 41 top consumers 42 restoring default policy 86 risk capacity remaining 18 defining 16 stress 18 sub-badges 16 time remaining
Index vm health levels 90 vm risk levels 90 vm stress levels 90 vm time levels 90 vm waste levels 90 vm workload levels 90 smoothing 104, 106 space, reclaiming 20 stress, identifying 38 stressed, window 102 stressed threshold 102 T troubleshooting, Dashboard tab 37 thresholds stressed 102 underused 102 time remaining 17 time zones 97 trend stress 56 waste 56 trend and forecast, settings 104 trends, outlier detection and smoothing 106 troubleshooting alerts 36 resolving 45 user problem 36 troubleshooting,
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