vRealize Operations Manager 6: How to create Projects

vRealize Operations Manager 6: Resource Capacity Concepts

One of the primary things you must learn to use  in the correct way the vROps Capacity Planning is understand the capacity concepts.

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Having this concepts crystal clear, the next lesson is the 3 capacity models:

1. Demand based > dynamic
2. Allocation based > static
3. A combination of demand and allocation models 

With the first method, demand, the resources are assigned to the objects based on their demand and with the second mode, allocation, the resources are assigned to objects in static way.

Usually the allocation model is used for production environments (and the other both for test environments). The main objective is maximize the density optimizing the use of the resources based on demand.

The allocation model reduce the risk of insufficient capacity based on teh assigned resources for objects.

See an example how a trend analisys is different from a demand to an allocation based model:

vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part V - Create Custom Groups with vSphere Tags

One of the best vROps (old vCOps) features is the option to create custom groups where you can define the criteria membership and apply a policy rule to them.

There is a lot of environments where the Virtual Machines are not properly configured and defined, with the vSphere Folders or inventory VM names, no naming convention, etc.... 

Is here where the "vSphere Tags" win the game! You can easily tag your VMs!  ..use PowerCLI!!!! (next post incoming)

Imagine that you need to create a policy rule and a Custom Group but your VMs in vSphere are not organized...  Are you thinking in add one-by-one to a Custom Group? and what if tomorrow you add new VMs? ...manually adding Vms is not a good idea, so try to tag your VMs when you create it on the vSphere environment and keep it updated with your CMDB database.

But, how to tag your environment properly?  First of all, you "must" have clear the tags you want to add and how to categorize it.  Just an example, filter you DDBB Vms  (SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, etc) or filter by App Vms, or Bckp environment, or AV environment... and so on.....

Once you have your VMs tagged, you can create a custom group as shown below:

See previous Part I    -vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part I - OVA deployment

See previous Part II   - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part II - Express Installation

See previous Part III  - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part III - Manage Solution

See previous Part IV  - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part IV -  How import LDAP users

Related with:  VMware vSphere: how to create tags - Part I

http://virtualshocks.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/vmware-vsphere-how-to-create-tags-part-i.html

Ediciones de VMware vCloud Suite

VMware en su version vCloud Suite dispone de tres ediciones: Standard, Advanced y Enterprise.

En cada una de ellas se incluyen diferentes soluciones: vSphere Enterprise Plus, vRealize Operations (vROps), vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Business y vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM): 

vRealize Operations es el antiguo vCenter Operations
vRealize Automation es el antiguo vCenter Automation
vRealize Business es en antiguo IT Business Management

Mas info en:  http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vCloud-Suite-Pricing-Packaging-Whitepaper.pdf

vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part IV - How import LDAP users

See previous Part I - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part I - OVA deployment

See previous Part II- vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part II - Express Installation

See previous Part III  - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part III - Manage Solution

vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part III - Manage Solution

Video about how to Manage solution  or how to add vCenters to vROps monitoring


See previous Part I - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part I - OVA deployment
See previous Part II- vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part II - Express Installation

vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part II - Express Installation

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vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part I - OVA deployment

See next step Part II  - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part II - Express Installation
See next step Part III - vRealize Operations Manager 6 - Part III - Manage Solution

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vRealize Operations Manager 6 initial deployment

vRO is finally here (old vCOps). There is a lot of changes in the new GA so try to review the releases notes and the new documentation:

https://www.vmware.com/support/vrops/doc/vrops-60-release-notes.html

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vrealize-operations-manager-pubs.html

There is a new sizing guide with 4 new sizes from Extra-Small to Large 
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2093783

The main different with the las releases is that right now there is only one VM instead the older 2 VM in the the vApp version.

The first screen when you deploy the new vRO6 is a new helpfully wizard for an Express Installation, a New Installation(clustering) or Expand an Existing Installation adding new nodes:

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