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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 22 3 Viewing Members
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 7 Working with Groups 75 Create a Group Type 76 Edit a Group Type 76 Delete a Group Type 77 Create a Group 77 Managing Groups 81 Application Custom Group 84 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager Create a New Policy 88 Modify an Existing Policy 109 Modify Summary, Views, and Reports Settings 87 110 9 Monitor the Performance of vCenter Operations Manager 113 Check the Health State of vCenter Operations Manager 113 Monitor Specific Me
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 The Workload score ranges from 0 (good) to over 100 (bad). The badge changes its color based on the badge score thresholds that are set by the vCenter Operations Manager administrator. 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.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Using the Anomalies Badge Under the Health Badge The vCenter Operations Manager Anomalies badge measures the extent of abnormal behavior for an object based on historical metrics data. A high number of anomalies might indicate a potential issue. A low Anomalies score indicates that an object is behaving in accordance with its established historical parameters. Most or all of the object metrics, especially its KPIs, are within their thresholds.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Using the Faults Badge Under the Health Badge The Faults badge measures the degree of problems that the object might experience based on events retrieved from the vCenter Server. The events that might generate faults include the loss of redundancy in NICs or HBAs, memory checksum errors, high availability failover, or Common Information Model (CIM) events, which require your immediate attention.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Defining Risk to Assess Future Problems in vCenter Operations Manager The vCenter Operations Manager Risk badge indicates a potential performance problem in the near future that might affect the virtual environment. Risk involves the time remaining, capacity remaining, and stress factors that account for the time buffer, remaining virtual machines, and degree of habitual high workload.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Table 2‑7. Time Remaining States Badge Icon Description User Action The number of days that remain is much higher than the score provisioning buffer you specified. No attention required. The number of days that remain is higher than the score provisioning buffer, but is less than two times the buffer you specified. Check and take appropriate action.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Table 2‑8. Object Capacity States (Continued) Icon Description User Action The capacity remaining for the object is at seriously low level. Check and take appropriate action as soon as possible. The object is expected to run out of capacity soon or has already run out of capacity. Act immediately. No data is available for any of the metrics for the time period. The object is offline.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide The Compliance Badge The Compliance badge value is based on the results of compliance templates that are run in vCenter Configuration Manager and are pulled into vCenter Operations Manager to contribute to the Risk badge calculation.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment Table 2‑11. Object Efficiency States Badge Icon Description User Action The resource use on the selected object is optimal. No attention required. The efficiency is good, but can be improved. Some resources are not fully used. 1 The resources on the selected object are not used in the most optimal way. 1 The efficiency is bad. Many resources are wasted. 1 2 2 2 On the Planning tab, click Views.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Using the Density Badge Under the Efficiency Badge The vCenter Operations Manager Density badge measures consolidation ratios to assess cost savings. You can assess the behavior and performance of a virtual machine and related applications to maximize the consolidation ratio without affecting the performance or service level agreements.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment The Metric Selector Pane The Metric Selector pane contains a list of all metric groups that are applicable to the currently selected object. Metric groups contain all the metrics that are applicable to the currently selected object. The list of available metrics is updated depending on the object you selected in the Health Tree pane.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 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.
Chapter 2 Beginning to Monitor the Virtual Environment 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.
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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 29 n “Find a Cluster that Has Resources Available for More Virtual Machines,” on page 30 n “Ranking the Health, Risk, and Efficiency Scores,” on page 30 n “View the Compliance Details,” on page 31 n “View a List of Members,” on page 33 n “Overview of Relationships,” on page 34 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 Health scores, you can find health problems and see why the health has degraded. You can also identify groups of objects that might have similar problems, check whether the workload is high in the selected population, and whether the population has a lot of faults or anomalies. When you compare the Efficiency scores, you can analyse visually the distribution of resources among child objects of the selected object.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Resolve Non-Compliant Rules for Compliance Templates The Compliance score is is a value based on template rules that are run in VCM. To improve score, view the template results and determine how to resolve non-compliant rules for the target objects. When you are working in VCM, click the Help icon to access information about the page on which you are working and for more information about the available actions.
Chapter 3 Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment Differing Object Names for Compliance Objects The virtual machine object name in vCenter Operations Manager might be different from the object name in the VCM compliance templates. This difference is a result of how vCenter Operations Manager and VCM retrieve and collect data from vCenter Server.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 2 To sort the list by a specific column: with the mouse, point to the column header and click the triangle to display the menu of sort options. Option Action Sort the Members list by the selected column. Click Sort Ascending or Sort Descending. Display the drop-down list of columns, and select or deselect the checked columns to hide or show them. With the mouse, point to Columns.
Chapter 3 Viewing Members and Relationships in the Monitored Environment Select a Relationship The Relationships tab displays different types of relationships of a selected object. Depending on your choice you can select the type of relationship that you want to view. Procedure 1 Click the Relationships tab under the Environment tab. 2 From the Show drop-down menu, select the relationships that you want to view.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Procedure 1 In the inventory pane, click the virtual machine object. 2 Click the Relationships tab under the Environment tab. The relationship graph and properties of the virtual machine object are displayed. The relationship graph also displays the applications that run on the virtual machine and the applications that the virtual machine depends on. 3 Click the application object for which you want to see the object properties.
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 b c d e f n n n ESX host Virtual machine Datastore a b In the Health pane, identify the sub-badge that indicates poor score. 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 45 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 46 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 3 To filter the objects and related objects by state, click the Status Filter buttons to view only the red, orange, and yellow states. 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 3 Click the Which datastores have the most wasted space and total space usage? view. 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 Procedure 1 Click the Analysis tab. 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 Identify the Host and Datastore with the Highest Latency Identify the host and datastore pair with the highest latency to prevent a potential performance problem. The heat map statistics for host I/O contention measure the latency or the time it takes to gain access to a resource. Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client and that vCenter Operations Manager is open. Procedure 1 Click the Analysis tab.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager What to do next Examine the Reclaimable Waste and Density subbadge colors to identify whether resources are underused or partially consolidated. Depending on your findings, you can investigate possible opportunities to improve efficiency.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Assess Virtual Machine Capacity Use Identify optimization opportunities for a single virtual machine with vCenter Operations Manager. 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. 2 Click the Views tab under the Planning tab and select Virtual Machine Capacity Usage - Summary.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager Identify Powered-Off Virtual Machines to Optimize Data Powered-off virtual machines in your infrastructure are resources with capacity that you can reclaim. 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. 2 Click the arrow under the Efficiency badge to expand the detailed view.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Procedure 1 In the inventory pane, select the object that you want to inspect. 2 Click the arrow under the Efficiency badge to expand the detailed view. 3 In the Views tab, select the Oversized Virtual Machines - List view. The virtual machines that appear in this view are underused and have more capacity than is required for the workload. 4 To determine how to update the CPU, check the value in the Recommended vCPU column.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager Create Capacity Scenarios for Virtual Machines With New Profiles Virtual machine scenarios assess the consequences of adding a new virtual machine to a cluster or host without applying actual changes to your virtual environment.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Option Description Virtual Disk Linked Clone Shared space that uses linked clones. Linked clones involve delta disks that reference a master disk rather than a full copy of the entire virtual hard disk. For thick disks with linked clones, vCenter Operations Manager calculates linked clone capacity as one master copy that uses 100 percent of the specified disk size and the remaining copies use 10 percent delta disks.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager 4 On the Change Type page, select Virtual machines and click Next. 5 Select Add virtual machines using profiles of existing virtual machines as models and click Next. 6 Select existing virtual machines from the list to use as profiles for the new virtual machines. The list of the existing virtual machines applies to the datacenter of the selected object.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 8 Use the buttons to add, remove, or restore datastores in the datastores list. Actions are applied only to datastores that you selected using the check boxes in the datastores list. 9 Click datastore rows to modify the disk size and click Save. The Population Details pane to the right contains information about the actual datastore capacity, the disk I/O use, and the number of hosts that link the datastore.
Chapter 5 Assessing Risk and Efficiency in vCenter Operations Manager Combine the Results of What-If Scenarios You can combine the results of all what-if scenarios to assess their cumulate effect on your environment. The list of scenarios that you created appears in the What-If Scenarios pane under the Legend pane. Prerequisites In vCenter Operations Manager, verify that the Views tab under the Planning tab is open. Verify that you have created at least two what-if scenarios.
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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 Alerts tab. 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 3 Select the group type you want to edit. The group type must be managed by a user. 4 Click the Edit icon at the top of the dialog box. 5 In the text box that displays the Group Type name, make changes. 6 Click OK to confirm the editing change. 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.
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 76. 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 77.
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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 Customize the Badge Thresholds for Groups on page 95 You can modify the default badge threshold levels for groups so that your own ranges appear in the vCenter Operations Manager interface. n Modify Capacity and Time Remaining Settings on page 96 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.
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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Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager Table 8‑1.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client as an administrator, and vCenter Operations Manager is open. Procedure 1 Click the Configuration link on the main vCenter Operations Manager page. 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 .
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 . . Click 3a Capacity and time remaining and modify the settings.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide 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 capacity and time remaining settings are reconfigured. Example: Examples of Capacity and Time Remaining Settings These examples show how some of the settings are used.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager 2 Create a new policy or open an existing policy for editing. Option Description To create a new policy In the Manage Policies pane, click the Create Policy icon To modify an existing policy In the Manage Policies pane, select the policy that you want to associate to groups and click the Edit Policy icon 3 . . Click 3b Usable Capacity and change the settings for usable capacity.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client as an administrator, and vCenter Operations Manager is open. Procedure 1 Click the Configuration link on the main vCenter Operations Manager page. 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 .
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager n Disk I/O in KBps n Network I/O in KBps The thresholds are evaluated for the period specified for views. You set this period in the Number of intervals to use text box of the Manage Display Settings section in the Configuration dialog box. For example, if the default setting for Number of intervals to use is four, and the Interval to use is weekly, vCenter Operations Manager examines the performance activity for the past month.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide The settings for powered off and idle virtual machines are reconfigured. Modify the Criteria for Oversized and Undersized Virtual Machines You can select the level of activity that constitutes an oversized or undersized virtual machine. 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 Option Description Amount of CPU demand peaks above Considers the virtual machine undersized when the following conditions are met: n CPU demand is more than the percentage of its allocated capacity as indicated in this field. n Duration of CPU activity under this threshold compared to total time evaluated meets the % undersized threshold.
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 . . Click 4c Underuse and stress and change the settings for underused and stressed rules.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager Option Description Entire range Sets the time range to analyze as the range defined in the Manage Display Settings section of the Configuration dialog box. Consider allocation in stress calculation Enables an allocation model in calculating stress. Allocation considers allocated resources as used, and unallocated resources as capacity remaining. 4 Click OK or Finish to save your settings, or select another option to configure.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Select Which Badges Generate Alerts You can select the badges for which you want alerts to appear on the Alerts tab in vCenter Operations Manager. Alerts are generated when a badge changes its color based on the badge score metrics. 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 Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client as an administrator, and vCenter Operations Manager is open. Procedure 1 Click the Configuration link on the main vCenter Operations Manager page. 2 Create a new policy or open an existing policy for editing.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Option Description Outlier detection variance limit Sets an error threshold against the progressive fits that are part of the algorithm to detect outliers. Outlier percentage of data allowed before giving up Sets the threshold for the percentage of data points marked as outliers. This is useful when vCenter Operations Manager detects too many outliers and the data set becomes too small to continue outlier detection.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager Table 8‑2. Outlier Detection and Smoothing Results (Continued) Data Filter Result Smoothing Shows the smooth data points and trends. vCenter Operations Manager does not show the original data points. In a table view, vCenter Operations Manager identifies the smooth data points with (S). Outlier detection and smoothing Shows the smooth data points, trends, and outlier data. vCenter Operations Manager does not show the original data points.
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide Prerequisites Verify that you are logged in to a vSphere Client as an administrator, and vCenter Operations Manager is open. Procedure 1 2 3 Click the Configuration link on the main vCenter Operations Manager page. Click Manage Policies, select the policy that you want to modify, and click the Edit Policy icon . In the Edit Policy dialog box, select the option that you want to modify and apply the necessary changes.
Chapter 8 Set How Data Appears in vCenter Operations Manager Option Description Distribution Views n Distribution buckets. Default value that determines the level of detail in which distribution views are presented. Increasing the buckets can provide more insight into the data. Trend & Forecast n Use up to data point number data points for trend and forecast. Indicates the number of data points used to calculate the trend.
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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 What to do next You can see the Root cause ranking pane for more information about problems with any of the nodes analytics, collector, Web, or MQ, and take actions accordingly. 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.
Index A adapter-defined custom group 84 adapter-managed groups 75 address, virtual machine problem 52 address, datastore problem 53 administrator, vSphere 5 alert cancel 69 release ownership 69 suppress 69 suspend 69 take ownership 69 alert types, overall trend 69 alerts canceling faults 72 capacity-related 68 compliance 72 critical 69 definition 66 ownership 70 releasing ownership 70 suppressing 70 suspending 71 troubleshooting 38 types 66 allocation model 96, 99, 103 analyzing data, capacity risk 49 anom
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide concepts attributes 8 dynamic thresholds 8 metrics 8 concepts, defined 7 consolidation ratio trend 55 correlate compliance object names 33 cost savings 22 critical alerts 69 custom overview chart 28 customizing policies 87 D dashboard remaining capacity 47 settings 110 used capacity 47 datastore scenarios 61 datastores space for virtual machines 51 waste 51 with high latency 54 default time window 110 definition, alerts 66 definition of groups 75 del
Index name 78 nesting 80 new 78 ready to complete 81 rule-based 75 rules 79 settings 78 types 75, 76 whitelists 80 groups policies, cloning 89 H hardware scenarios 61 health anomalies 15 defining 12 sub-badges 12 timeframe 45 transient or chronic 45 workload 13, 15 health tree buttons 23 health weather map 13 heat maps identify resource consumers 44 identifying latency 54 help desk issue 38 host, workload 50 host scenarios 61 hosts stressed 40 with high latency 54 I icons for objects 11 identify critical
VMware vCenter Operations Manager Getting Started Guide powered-off virtual machines 57, 100 problem events 65 product features 7 R reclaim, resources 55 relationship graph pane buttons 34 relationships 34, 35 Relationships tab 34 Relationships tab, object properties 35 remediation events 65 removing groups 84 report controls 110 resolving faults 65 resource details 34 resources identifying underlying issues 43 memory 43 top consumers 44 restoring default policy 88 risk capacity remaining 18 defining 17 s
Index vm faults ranges 92 vm health levels 92 vm risk levels 92 vm stress levels 92 vm time levels 92 vm waste levels 92 vm workload levels 92 smoothing 106, 108 space, reclaiming 21 stress, identifying 40 stressed, window 105 stressed threshold 105 T troubleshooting, Dashboard tab 39 thresholds stressed 105 underused 105 time remaining 17 time zones 99 trend stress 58 waste 58 trend and forecast, settings 106 trends, outlier detection and smoothing 108 troubleshooting alerts 38 resolving 47 user problem
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