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About This User Guide ® The VMware vRealize Operations Manager User Guide describes what to do when users experience performance problems in your managed environment. As a system administrator, you might become aware of a problem with an object in your environment when vRealize Operations Manager generates an alert, or when a user contacts you.
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Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 1 You can use vRealize Operations Manager to resolve problems that your customers raise, respond to alerts that identify problems before your customers report problems, and generally monitor your environment for problems.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide n User Scenario: An Alert Arrives in Your Inbox on page 12 You return from lunch to find an alert notification in your inbox. You can use vRealize Operations Manager to investigate and resolve the alert. n User Scenario: You See Problems as You Monitor the State of Your Objects on page 19 As you investigate your objects in the context of this scenario, vRealize Operations Manager provides details to help you resolve the problems.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Review Alerts Related to Reported Problems To determine if the virtual machine about which the vice president of sales reported problems has alerts that indicate the cause of the problem, you review the alerts in vRealize Operations Manager for the object. Alerts on an object give you an insight into problems other than the one that the object user reports.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Use the Troubleshooting Tab Options to Investigate a Reported Problem To troubleshoot problems with the VPSALES4632 virtual machine, you evaluate the symptoms, examine time line information, consider events, and create metric charts to find the root cause of the problem.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 4 Click the Events tab to view changes in the collected metrics for the problematic virtual machine that could direct you toward the cause of the reported problem. a Use the Date Controls option view event for the approximate time when your customer reported the problem. b Click through the Workload, Capacity, and Stress badges to determine if any events are associated with the problem.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide User Scenario: An Alert Arrives in Your Inbox You return from lunch to find an alert notification in your inbox. You can use vRealize Operations Manager to investigate and resolve the alert. As a network operations engineer, you are responsible for several hosts and their datastores and virtual machines, and you receive emails when an alert is generated for your monitored objects.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Respond to an Alert in Your Email As a network operations engineer, you receive an email message from vRealize Operations Manager with information about one of the data stores for which you are responsible. The email notification informs you about the problem even when you are not presently working in vRealize Operations Manager. In your email client, you receive an alert similar to the following message.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 2 In the email message, click Alert Details. vRealize Operations Manager opens on the Summary tab in the alert details for the generated alert and affected object. 3 Review the Summary tab information. Option Evaluation Process Alert name and description Review the name and description and verify that you are evaluating the alert for which you received an email message.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Option Evaluation Process Created On Do the date and time stamps for the symptoms indicate that they were triggered before the alert you are investigating, indicating that it might be a related symptom? Were the symptoms triggered after the alert was generated, indicating that the alert symptoms contributed to these other symptoms? Information Can you identify a correlation between the alert symptoms and the
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 7 Click Show Peer Events. If other datastores have alerts related to the alert you are currently investigating, seeing when the alerts for the other datastores were generated can help you determine what resource problems you are experiencing in your environment. 8 To remove canceled alerts from your timeline, click Select Status and deselect the Canceled check box.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 7 Use the options to evaluate the datastore. For example, what does the map tell you about the number of virtual machines that are associated with the datastore? If many virtual machines are associated with a datastore, moving them might free datastore disk space.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 5 To analyze the second recommendation, vMotion some Virtual Machines to a different Datastore, add related charts to the workspace. a Enter vm in the metric list search text box. b Double-click the Summary | Total Number of VMs metric to add it to the workspace c Compare the 4 charts.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Procedure 1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Alerts icon. 2 Click the alert name link. 3 Click the Summary tab. 4 Click the Other Recommendations arrow to expand the list. Other recommendations include the Storage vMotion some virtual machines to a different datastore recommendation and the Delete unused snapshots for virtual machines recommendation.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide This scenario refers to objects that are associated with the VMware vSphere Solution, which connects vRealize Operations Manager to one or more vCenter Server instances. The objects in your environment include multiple vCenter Server instances, data centers, clusters (cluster compute resources), host systems, resource pools, and virtual machines.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 5 Fix the Problem on page 28 You use the analysis and troubleshooting features of vRealize Operations Manager to examine problems that put your objects in a critical state, and identify solutions. To resolve the problems, where actions exist for the object type, you select an object and an available action that is specific to the object.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 4 View the time remaining breakdown for the cluster. The icons indicate that zero days remain, with no planned capacity projects considered. 5 Scroll down until you see the Time Remaining in Related Objects pane. The parent object is the data center, and the peer represents another cluster. The child objects include the resource pool and host systems. The data center and one of the host systems are experiencing critical memory problems.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Troubleshoot Problems with a Host System You use the Troubleshooting tabs to identify the root cause of problems that are not resolved by alert recommendations or simple analysis. To further troubleshoot the symptoms of the capacity problems that are occurring on the cluster and host system, and determine when those problems occurred, you use the Troubleshooting tabs to continue to investigate the memory problem.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 5 Click the Events tab to examine the changes that occurred on USA-Cluster, and determine whether a change occurred that contributed to the root cause of the alert or other problems with the cluster. a On the toolbar, click each badge and view the events that occurred. The Workload badge displays a graph of the events that occurred on the cluster. Several red triangles appear at various points in the graph. b Hover your mouse over each red triangle.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager You have analyzed the symptoms, timeline, events, and metrics related to the problems on your cluster, and determined that the heavy workload on the cluster has decreased the cluster density in the last several days, which indicates that the cluster is starting to run out of capacity.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide d Click the Details tab, and click Views, and click the Virtual Machine Reclaimable Capacity view. e In the lower pane, click the title of the Reclaimable Memory column to sort the list of virtual machines so that the largest amount of reclaimable capacity is on top.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Several objects are experiencing stress. You notice that you can reclaim capacity from multiple virtual machines and a host system, but the overall efficiency status for your environment displays no problems. Prerequisites Examine the status of your objects in views and heatmaps. See “Examine the Environment Details,” on page 25. Procedure 1 Click Environment > vSphere Hosts and Clusters > USA-Cluster.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 4 d Click the host system named w2-vropsqe2-009, which is in a critical state, to locate it in the inventory tree. e Click w2-vropsqe2-009 in the inventory tree, and click the Summary tab to look for recommendations and alerts so that you can take action. Examine the environment map. a Click Environment > Map. b In the inventory tree, click USA-Cluster, and view the map of related objects.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager c Click the view named Host Rightsizing CPU, Memory, and Disk Space. The host system named w2-vropsqe2-009 appears in the lower pane. You see that the provisioned CPUs and memory for the host system are wasting capacity, and realize that you can free up some capacity in an attempt to resolve the capacity problem on the host system.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Create a New Alert Definition Based on the root cause of the problem, and the solutions that you used to fix the problem, you can create a new alert definition for vRealize Operations Manager to alert you. When the alert is triggered on your host system, vRealize Operations Manager alerts you and provides recommendations on how to solve the problem.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 4 Click Save to save the alert definition. Your new alert appears in the list of alert definitions. You have added an alert definition to have vRealize Operations Manager alert you when the capacity of your host systems begins to run out. What to do next Create dashboards and views for future investigation. See “Create Dashboards and Views,” on page 31.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 4 Create and configure a new dashboard that has widgets to monitor the health of your host systems and generate alerts. a Above the dashboard view, click Actions and select Create Dashboard. b In the New Dashboard workspace, for the Dashboard Name, enter Health of Host Systems, and leave the other default settings. c In the Widget List workspace, add the Object List widget and configure it to display host system objects.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Alerts Alerts are classified as Health, Risk, or Efficiency. Health alerts indicate problems that require immediate attention. Risk alerts indicate problems that must be addressed in the near future, before the problems become immediate health problems. Efficiency alerts indicate areas where you can reclaim wasted space or improve the performance of objects in your environment.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide As the alerts are generated, you must process the alerts based on the negative affect they have on objects in your environment. To do this, you start with Health alerts, and process them based on criticality. As a virtual infrastructure administrator, you review the alerts at least twice a day.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager What to do next Respond to an alert. See “User Scenario: Respond to a vRealize Operations Manager Alert in the Health Alert List,” on page 35. User Scenario: Respond to a vRealize Operations Manager Alert in the Health Alert List Generated alerts in vRealize Operations Manager appear in the alert lists. You use the alert lists to investigate, resolve, and begin troubleshooting problems in your environment.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 7 8 To resolve the alert based on the recommendation to check the guest applications to determine whether high CPU workload is an expected behavior, click the Action menu on the center pane toolbar and select Open Virtual Machine in vSphere Client. a Log in to the vCenter Server instance using your vSphere credentials. b Launch the console for the virtual machine and identify which guest applications are consuming CPU resources.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Evaluating Object Summary Information The Summary tab that is associated with the other object tabs summarizes Heath, Risk, and Efficiency alert badges for the selected object and displays the top alerts that lead to the current state. It also displays the top alerts for the descendants of the selected object in the current navigation hierarchy.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Summary Tab Evaluation Techniques You can evaluate the state of objects, starting with the Summary tab, by using one or more of the following techniques. n Select an object or object group, click on the alerts on the Summary tab, and resolve the problems that the alert indicates. n Select an object and examine the information about the current object that is provided in the other tabs.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 4 To view the Summary tab for the host so that you can also work with the child virtual machines, click the right arrow to the right of the host name in the lower left pane. 5 Select the vSphere Hosts and Clusters, located in the upper part of the left pane.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Investigating Object Alerts The Alerts tab provides a list of generated alerts for the currently selected object. When you are working with objects, reviewing and responding to generated alerts on the Alert tab helps you manage problems in your environment. The alerts notify you when a problem occurs in your environment based on configured alert definitions. Object alerts are useful to you as an investigative tool in two ways.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Procedure 1 Enter the name of the object, db-01-kyoto, in the Search text box and select the virtual machine in the list. The object Summary tab appears. The Top Alerts panes display important active alerts for the object. 2 Click the Analysis tab. The Workload tab is the first tab. This badge indicates that the workload is highest by CPU, but memory is also above the configured limit. 3 Click the Alerts tab.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide c To create a snapshot before changing the virtual machine CPU configuration, select the Snapshot check box. d Click OK. e Click the Task ID link and verify that the task ran successfully. The specified number of CPUs are added to the virtual machine. What to do next After a few collection cycles, return to the object Alerts tab. If the alert no longer appears, then your actions resolved the alert.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager c Click the alert name in the widget. For example, click the Acct VM CPU early warning Risk alert. The Alert Details Summary tab appears. d Resolve the alert based on recommendations. For example, to use the If this is a standalone host, add more memory to the host recommendation, click the link to the instructions for adding memory to a host.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 2 Click the All Metrics tab. 3 In the relationship topology map, click the virtual machine, dk-new-10. The metrics list, located in the lower left of the center pane, displays virtual machine metrics. 4 On the chart toolbar, click Date Control and select a time that is on or before the symptoms were triggered. 5 Add metric charts to the display area for the virtual machine.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager To display the metrics contained within a group, click the plus sign next to the group. You can double-click a group to populate the chart window with a separate chart for each of the metrics in the group. In the screenshot above, the metrics of the memory group populate the chart window. VMware, Inc.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Table 1‑1. CPU Metric Group Metric Description CPU|CPU contention (%) This metric shows the percentage of time the VMs in the ESXi hosts are unable to run because they are contending for access to the physical CPUs. The number shown is the average number for all VMs. The number will be lower than the highest number experienced by the VM that is most impacted by CPU contention. Use this metric to verify if the host can serve all its VMs efficiently.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Table 1‑1. CPU Metric Group (Continued) Metric Description Summary|Number of running VMs This metric shows the number of running VMs at a given point in time. The data is sampled every five minutes. A large number of running VMs might be a reason for CPU or memory spikes because more resources are used in the host.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Table 1‑2. Memory Metric Group Metric Description Memory|Balloon (KB) This metric shows the total amount of memory currently used by the VM memory control. Use this metric to monitor how much VM memory the ESXi has reclaimed through memory ballooning. The presence of ballooning indicates that the ESXi has been under memory pressure. ESXi activates ballooning when its consumed memory reaches a specific threshold. For example, in vRealize Operations Manager 6.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Table 1‑4. Storage Metric Group Metric Description Datastore I/O|Average observed virtual machine disk I/O workload Storage adapter|Aggregate of all instances|Read latency (ms) This metric shows the average amount of time required for a read operation by all the storage adapters. Use this metric to monitor the read operation of the storage adapter.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Timeline Tab Overview The timeline provides a view of the triggered symptoms, generated alerts, and events for an object over a period of time. You use the timeline to identify common trends over time that are contributing to the current status of objects in your environment.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Working with Heat Maps With the vRealize Operations Manager heat map feature, you can locate trouble areas based on the metric values for objects in your virtual infrastructure. vRealize Operations Manager uses analytics algorithms that you can use to compare the performance of objects across the virtual infrastructure in real time using heat maps.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide In most cases, the attribute lists include only metrics that vRealize Operations Manager generates. If you select an object type, the list shows all of the attributes that are defined for that object type. a 8 To track metrics only for objects of a particular kind, select the object type from the Object Type drop-down menu. If you selected Instance mode, select an attribute kind from the Attribute Kind list.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 3 Click the Heat Map tab under the Details tab. 4 In the list of heat maps, click the one to view. The heat map of the selected metrics appears, sized and grouped according to your selection. 5 Use the heat map to compare objects and click resources and metric values for all objects in your virtual environment.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide What to do next Adjust workloads to balance resources as necessary. Identify Datastores with Enough Space for Virtual Machines Identify the datastores that have the most space for your next set of virtual machines. Procedure 1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click Environment. 2 Select vSphere World. 3 Click the Heat Map tab under the Details tab.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 6 If a color other than green indicates a potential problem, click Details for the virtual machine in the pop-up window and investigate the disk space and I/O resources. What to do next Identify the red, orange, or yellow virtual machines with the highest amount of wasted space. Examining Relationships in Your Environment Most objects in an environment are related to other objects in that environment.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide User Scenario: Investigate the Root Cause of a Problem by Using the Troubleshooting Tab Options One of your customers reports poor performance for his virtual machine, including slowness and fails. This scenario provides one way that you can use vRealize Operations Manager to investigate the problem based on information available in the Troubleshooting tabs.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager 3 Review and evaluate the triggered symptoms. Option Evaluation Process Symptom Are any of the triggered symptoms related to the critical states you see for memory or disk space? Status Are the symptoms active or inactive? Even inactive symptoms can provide information about the past state of the object. To add any inactive symptoms, click Status: Active on the toolbar to remove the filter.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide n Virtual machine CPU time remaining low n Guest partition disk space use n Virtual machine memory time remaining is low The following method of evaluating problems using the Timeline tab is provided as an example for using vRealize Operations Manager and is not definitive. Your troubleshooting skills and your knowledge of the particulars of your environment determine which methods work for you. Prerequisites Review the triggered object symptoms.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Identify Influential Events When You Troubleshoot a Virtual Machine Problem Events are changes to objects in your environment that are based on changes to metrics, properties, or information about the object. Examining the events for the problematic virtual machine in the context of the analysis badges and alerts might provide visual clues to the root cause of a problem.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide When you are troubleshooting problems, you can run the actions from the center pane Actions menu or from the toolbar on list views that contain the supported objects. When an alert is triggered, and you determine that the recommended action is the most likely way to resolve the problem, you can run the action on one or more objects.
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vRealize Operations Manager User Guide If you select Power Off Allowed, and the machine is running, the action verifies whether VMware Tools is installed and running. n If VMware Tools are installed and running, the virtual machine is shut down before completing the action. n If VMware Tools are not running or not installed, the virtual machine is powered off without regard for the state of the operating system.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Table 1‑7. Increasing CPU Count Behavior. Virtual Machine Power State CPU Hot Plug Enabled Power Off Allowed Selected On Yes No The action increases the CPU count to the specified amount. On No Yes If VMware Tools is installed and running, the action shuts down the virtual machine, increases the CPU count, and powers the machine back on.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Table 1‑8. Increasing Memory Amount Behavior (Continued) Virtual Machine Power State Memory Hot Plug Enabled On No Not applicable. The hot plug is not enabled. Yes If VMware Tools is installed and running, the action shuts down the virtual machine, increases the memory, and powers the machine back on. If VMware Tools is not installed, the action powers off the virtual machine, increases the memory, and powers the machine back on. Off Not applicable.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager n Set Memory for VM n Set Memory for VM Power Off Allowed n Set Memory Resources for VM n Shut Down Guest OS for VM How to Use Alerts and Actions Together for Automation (http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid2296383276001? bctid=ref:video_vrealize_alerts_actions_automation) How to Automate an Alert that has an Associated Action (http://link.brightcove.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Actions Determine Whether Objects Are Managed Actions check the objects in the vRealize Automation managed resource container to determine which objects are being managed by vRealize Automation. n Actions such as Rebalance Container check the child objects of the data center container or custom data center container to determine whether the objects are managed by vRealize Automation. If the objects are being managed, the action does not appear on those objects.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Procedure 1 In vRealize Operations Manager, select the object in the environment inventory or select one or more objects it in a list view. 2 Click Actions on the main toolbar or in an embedded view. 3 Select one of the actions. If you are working with a virtual machine, only the virtual machine is included in the dialog box.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Cause When vRealize Automation manages the child objects of a data center or custom data center container, the actions that are normally available on those objects do not appear, because the action framework excludes actions on objects that vRealize Automation manages. You cannot turn on or turn off the exclusion of actions on vRealize Automation managed objects. This behavior is normal.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Host Name Does Not Appear in Action Dialog Box When you run an action on a virtual machine, the host name is blank in the action dialog box. Problem When you select virtual machine on which to run an action, and click the Action button, the dialog box appears, but the Host column is empty.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide What to do next Troubleshoot tasks with a status of Maximum Time Reached or Failed to determine why a task did not run successfully. See “Troubleshoot Failed Tasks,” on page 70. Troubleshoot Failed Tasks If tasks fail to run in vRealize Operations Manager, review the Recent Tasks page and troubleshoot the task to determine why it failed. This information is a general procedure for using the information in Recent Tasks to troubleshoot problems identified in the tasks.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Determine If a Recent Task Failed The Recent Tasks provide the status of action tasks initiated from vRealize Operations Manager. If you do not see the expected results, review the tasks to determine if your task failed. Procedure 1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click the Administration icon. 2 Click Recent Tasks. 3 Select the failed task in the task list.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Troubleshooting Set CPU or Set Memory Failed Tasks An action task for Set CPU Count or Set Memory for VM has a Failed status in the recent task list because power off is not allowed. Problem The Recent Tasks list indicates that a Set CPU Count, Set Memory, or Set CPU and Memory task has a status of Failed. When you evaluate the Messages list for the selected task, you see this message. Unable to perform action.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Troubleshooting Set CPU Count and Memory When Values Not Supported If you run the Set CPU Count or Set Memory actions with an unsupported value on a virtual machine, the virtual machine might be left in an unusable state and require you to resolve the problem in vCenter Server. Problem You cannot power on a virtual machine after you successfully run the Set CPU Count or Set Memory actions.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Troubleshooting Set CPU Resources or Set Memory Resources When the Value is Not Supported If you run the Set CPU Resources action with an unsupported value on a virtual machine, the task fails and an error appears in the Recent Task messages. Problem The Recent Tasks list indicates that a Set CPU Resource or Set Memory Resource action has a state of Failed. When you evaluate the Messages list for the selected task, you see a message similar to the following examples.
Chapter 1 Monitoring Objects in Your Managed Environment by Using vRealize Operations Manager Cause You submitted the action to change the CPU or memory reservation or limit value to a value greater than the value supported by vCenter Server, or the submitted reservation value is greater than the limit. Solution u Run the action using a lower value.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Troubleshooting VMware Tools Not Running for a Shut Down VM Action Status A Shut down VM action task has a Failed status in the Recent Task list and the Message indicates that VMware Tools were required. Problem The Shutdown VM action did not run successfully. The Recent Tasks list indicates that a Shutdown VM action has a tasks status of Failed. When you evaluate the Messages list for the selected job, you see VMware Tools: Not running (Not installed).
Planning the Capacity for Your Managed Environment Using vRealize Operations Manager 2 You can use the Projects feature in vRealize Operations Manager to plan for capacity allocations and upgrades in your virtual environment, or to optimize your existing resources. To plan your upcoming capacity needs, you create a project that anticipates forthcoming changes that affect the capacity of your objects.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide When you create a project, you add one or more capacity scenarios to the project to determine your future needs. Project scenarios anticipate the changes to capacity or demand that affect the object at an upcoming time and date. After you save each project, you drag the project to the visualization pane to chart the capacity forecast. You can see the anticipated capacity needs in the chart based on the values that you defined in your project scenarios.
Chapter 2 Planning the Capacity for Your Managed Environment Using vRealize Operations Manager When you view both projects, the chart displays 1.1, 1.2, and 2.1 to indicate the point in time when each scenario takes effect. To view the details about the scenario, move the pointer to the number in the chart. The projects and scenarios continue to appear in the chart until you delete them or refresh the view.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Table 2‑1. Project Scenarios for Selected Objects (Continued) Selected Object Project Scenarios Datastore Capacity n Add or remove percentage of capacity. n Change absolute capacity. Demand n Add or remove virtual machine or percentage of demand. n Change absolute demand. Virtual Machine n n Add, change, or remove capacity. Add, change, or remove demand.
Chapter 2 Planning the Capacity for Your Managed Environment Using vRealize Operations Manager Where to Find Stress-Free Demand and Stress-Free Value In some areas of the user interface, vRealize Operations Manager identifies capacity as Stress Free Demand, and in other areas it is identified as Stress Free Value. Both terms mean that the calculated capacity for an object is free from unacceptable levels of contention and stress, as defined in the policy for the Stress score.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Demand Exceeds is a percentage of capacity. Capacity is also called provisioned capacity. To change the stress threshold for a resource, double-click the Demand Exceeds percentage, and enter the desired value. This value defines the point at which vRealize Operations Manager considers the percentage of demand to be stress. For example, to change the stress threshold for Memory Demand, double-click the current percentage, such as 70.
Chapter 2 Planning the Capacity for Your Managed Environment Using vRealize Operations Manager With a peak detection window size of 60 minutes, vRealize Operations Manager calculates the CPU stress score. It uses the area under the demand curve and above the stress threshold line as a percentage of the area covered by the total capacity curve.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide User Scenario: Planning Capacity for an Increase in Workload You are an IT administrator for one of your financial data centers. You must forecast the capacity requirements for your virtual infrastructure to plan for an increase in the workload of your cluster and data center over the next month.
Chapter 2 Planning the Capacity for Your Managed Environment Using vRealize Operations Manager Procedure 1 In the vRealize Operations Manager inventory tree, select your data center named Fina_RDDC-01. Then select your cluster named Fina_RDCL-01. 2 Click the Projects tab. 3 On the toolbar above the Projects list pane, click Add. 4 In the Projects workspace, enter a name and description for the project. For example, Fina RDCL Q1 Planning. 5 For the Status, select Planned - no badges affected.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 7 Under Add Demand, drag the scenario named add Virtual Machine to the Scenarios pane. The scenario is numbered 1.1. 8 9 In the Configuration pane, configure the capacity requirements. a Under Changes, enter 10 for the number of virtual machines. b Under Metrics, enter 4 GB for Memory (Consumed). c For CPU - Allocation model for vCPUs, enter 2. Under Add Capacity, drag the scenario named add Host System to the Scenarios pane. The scenario is numbered 1.2.
Chapter 2 Planning the Capacity for Your Managed Environment Using vRealize Operations Manager Planning Hardware Projects in vRealize Operations Manager Planning a capacity project for the hardware in your infrastructure involves changes to the host hardware and datastore hardware. To determine whether you must purchase new hardware, you can create projects. Before you change your hardware objects, you can create and implement a hardware project to determine the result of the change.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide 10 To view the effect of your selections in the visualization chart, click Save project and continue editing. With the Capacity Container set to Most Constrained, the visualization chart might indicate a CPU shortfall when you implement the project scenario. This shortfall might occur because the CPU allocation might be greater than the available capacity. In this case, you might need to add CPU capacity before you implement the project scenario.
Chapter 2 Planning the Capacity for Your Managed Environment Using vRealize Operations Manager Procedure 1 In the vRealize Operations Manager navigation tree, click the host or cluster that contains the planned virtual machine reside, and click Projects. 2 Click Add New Project. 3 In the Projects workspace, enter a name and description for the project. 4 For the Status, select Planned - no badges affected. 5 In the workspace, click Scenarios.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Procedure 1 Select the destination object in the inventory pane. If you implement your scenario, the destination object is a cluster or host where you locate the new virtual machines. 2 Click the Projects tab and click the Add New Project icon. 3 From the Projects workspace, enter the name and a description of the project. 4 Select the Planned status. 5 To add scenarios to this project, click Scenarios.
Chapter 2 Planning the Capacity for Your Managed Environment Using vRealize Operations Manager vRealize Operations Manager applies your project and scenario to the visualization chart. The capacity forecasted in the project appears as a gray line in the chart. Compare the current capacity to the expected capacity if you commit this project to remove one or more virtual machines from the selected object.
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide Click the icon for your data center to view its workload trend, CPU and memory workload measurements, and the vSphere configuration limit. 92 VMware, Inc.
Index A B action integration with vRealize Automation 65 actions power off allowed 61 recent tasks 69 recommended for automation 64 run 66 shut down virtual machine 60 shut down guest operating system 60 shutdown virtual machine 66 troubleshooting 67–76 troubleshooting missing 67 vCenter Server 59 VMware Tools 61 actions on objects that vRealize Automation manages 67 add virtual machine project 88 alert cancel 32, 33 monitor 32, 33 ownership 33 recommendation 35 resolve 35 respond 12–18, 32 suspend 33 al
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide E email alert, respond 12–18 environment inventory 76 object relationships 55 environment overview 55 events 59 events tab troubleshooting 50 troubleshooting tab 59 using 10 F filter, alert list 35 forecast capacity custom data centers 91 custom profiles 91 forecast hardware capacity 87 G glossary 5 H hardware project scenarios 87 hardware projects 87 hardware projects in your capacity planning 77 heat map colors 51 heat map details, best performance 52 heat maps 5
Index populated metrics 88 removing virtual machines 90 R reading heat maps 51 recent tasks actions 69 monitor 69 troubleshooting 70–76 recommendation, alert 35 recommendations, respond to alert 18 relationships tab, user scenario 16 resolve, alert 35 resource comparison 52 respond alert 12–18 alerts 40 email alert 12–18 respond to alert, user scenario 12–18 respond to problems User Scenario:Analyze the State of Your Environment 21 User Scenario:Create Dashboards and Views 31 User Scenario:Create a New Al
vRealize Operations Manager User Guide troubleshooting tab all metrics tab 10 events tab 10 symptoms tab 10 timeline tab 10 user scenario 56 using 10 troubleshooting missing actions actions 67 missing actions 67 U use 5 user scenario respond to alert 12–18 troubleshooting problems 7 troubleshooting tab 56 User Scenario:Analyze the State of Your Environment 21 User Scenario:Create a New Alert Definition 30 User Scenario:Create Dashboards and Views 31 User Scenario:Examine the Environment Details 25 User Sc
