VMTurbo Operations Manager 4.0.1 User Guide

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TableofContents
What'sNew IntroducingOperationsManager
TheOptimalOperatingZone TheMarketandVirtualCurrency TheEconomicSchedulingEngine TheOperationsManagerSupplyChain VirtualApplications Applications VirtualMachines PhysicalMachines Storage DiskArrays StorageControllers IOModules FabricInterconnects Datacenters ProviderVirtualDatacenters OrganizationVirtualDatacenters OperationsManagerActions Provision Decommission Move Resize ActionsSummary SupplyChainTerminology ResourceDescriptions
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TheOperationsManagerUserInterface
MenuBar Deleting,Adding,andArrangingMenuButtons ToolBarandDisplayTools FlyoutPanels SettingFlyoutPanelLocation BrowsingDisabled NavigationTreeHierarchies ResourceIcons NotificationsBar StandardPanelControls Tooltips ChartLegendPulldowns ChartDisplayRadioButtons Maximize/Minimize ExporttoXML CustomizeHeatmap ChartDateRanges
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InformationPanels SummaryPanels UtilizationCharts DashboardPanels ShowToporBottomItemsinChart UtilizationHistory
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ToDoListsMaintainingQoS
ViewingRecommendedActions ExecutingRecommendedActions ViewingRisksandEfficiencyOpportunities ViewingRisksandOpportunitiesfromtheInventoryView ActionCategories Prevention PerformanceAssurance Compliance EfficiencyImprovement ExamplesofRisksandActions CriticalOverUtilization LowUtilization MisconfiguredVMs MisconfiguredInfrastructure
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LoggingIntoOperationsManager
HostRequirementsandSupportedTargets MinimumHostingRequirements SupportedOperationsManagerTargets
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TheDashboardsView
GeneratingReportsFromtheDashboardView StandardDashboards ViewingStandardDashboards AssureServicePerformance ImproveOverallEfficiency ProjectClusterResources MonthlySummary ClusterCapacity CustomDashboards
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TheWorkloadView
InspectingChartData VMsList RecommendedActionsList ControllingChartDisplay SettingChartScope
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TheDeployView
DeployingVMs CreatingandEditingTemplates CreatingVMTemplates CreatingDeploymentProfiles DiscoveredDeploymentData
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ThePlanView
UseCases IncreasingVirtualLoadunderExistingConstraints RunningPlans CreatingPlans ManagingPlanFiles TrackingPlanModifications SettingPlanScope SelectingthePlanBaseline SpecifyingthePlanWorkload SettingAdvancedOptions WorkloadDistribution SummaryView PhysicalMachineUtilization StorageUtilization PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationData WorkloadProjection SummaryView PhysicalMachineUtilization StorageUtilization PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationData HardwareReplace DefiningReplaceParameters SummaryView PhysicalMachineUtilization StorageUtilization PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationData RecommendedActions
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TheOptimizeView
OptimizerUserInterface NavigationPanelOptimizeView UtilizationSummaryPanel ToDoPanel
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TheInventoryView
Summary SummaryReports SeverityIconsinSummaryPanels VirtualApplications Applications GuestLoad VirtualMachines PhysicalMachines
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Storage DiskArrays StorageControllers IOModules FabricInterconnects Datacenters ProviderVirtualDatacenters OrganizationVirtualDatacenters
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StandardReports SubscribingtoStandardReports CustomReports AddingNewCustomReports EditCustomReports SettingBasicProperties ChoosingQueryFields SpecifyingQueryFieldConditions SortingReportColumns ManageSubscriptions
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TheAdminView
UserAuthenticationConfiguration CreatingUserandGroupAccounts UserAuthentication AccountPrivileges AccountScope TargetConfiguration AddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServers AddingHypervisorsasTargets AddingCloudManagementTargets AddingLoadBalancersasTargets AddingStorageControllersasTargets AddingFabricManagersasTargets AddingOperationsManagerTargetsforAggregation LicenseConfiguration Maintenance ReportConfiguration ExtraConfigurationTasks OperationsManagerBackupProcedures P2VPlanningMigrationfromPhysicaltoVirtual CustomBrandingofOperationsManager ViewingtheAuditLog
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ThePolicyView
PolicyScope GlobalSettings GroupOverrides PolicyCategories GroupManagement WorkloadPlacement Analysis
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VersionsandLicensingforAggregation AggregatedUserAccountsandLogin ActiveDirectoryAuthentication AggregationDetails ConfiguringAggregation
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What'sNew
ThisreleaseofVMTurboOperationsManagerincludesthefollowingnewfeatures: StorageExtension Withthisrelease,VMTurboInc.introducestheOperationsManagerStorageExtension.Withthismodule OperationsManagernowextendsintelligentworkloadmanagementtodiskarraytechnologies.StorageExtension featuresinclude: VMmovesacrossvolumesthesameordifferentdiskarrays Actionstoresize,suspend,andremovevolumesanddiskarrays Storagecontrolleranalysisthattakesintoaccounttheimpactofdeduplication,compression,anddatascrubbing DesiredStatecalculationsthataccountforthickandthinprovisioning,deduplication,snapshotspace,anda rangeofstoragetypes(SSDandvariousspindlespeeds) Formoreinformationaboutdiskarraysupport,seeTheOperationsManagerSupplyChainonpage 5. StorageClusterSupport OperationsManagernowdiscoversstorageclustersandlimitsVMmovesaccordingly.IfaVMusesstoragethatis withinastoragecluster,allmovesofthatstoragewillremainwithinthatcluster. HighAvailabilitySupport OperationsManagernowdiscoversVMWareHAconfigurationsinclusters,andconsidersthereservedresources initscalculations. Fortoleratedhostfailures,orareservedpercentageofclusterresources,OperationsManagerautomaticallysets utilizationconstraintsforthatcluster(seeUtilizationConstraintsonpage 251). Ifyouconfigureafailoverhost,OperationsManagerreservesthathostforHAandwillnotmoveVMstoit.You canseeafailovericon( )onthereservedhostintheInventorytree. ExportDashboardstoPDF YoucannowexportthecurrentdisplayindashboardstoPDFfiles.Thisisawaytogeneratereportsbasedonthe datayouseeintheOperationsManageruserinterface.Formoreinformation,seeGeneratingReportsFromthe DashboardViewonpage 65. ClusterCapacityDashboard OperationsManagerincludesanewdashboardthatcalculatestheVMheadroomforeachclusterinyour environment.Usethistoanswerthequestion,HowmanymoreVMscanIsafelyaddtomycluster?Formore information,seeClusterCapacityonpage 80. WorkloadUtilizationChart ThisreleaseincludesanewchartthatshowsoverallVMhealth,relativetotheOptimalOperatingZone.Formore information,seeTheWorkloadViewonpage 86. ImprovedSharedUserRoles OperationsManagerhasimproveditssupportforshareduseraccounts.Shareduseraccountscannowlimitthe viewsotheuserwillnotseeanyhardwareinformation.Thisisusefulforserviceproviderswhowanttokeeptheir hardwareresourcesprivate.TheGUIforaccountconfigurationhasbeenchangedtoimproveconfigurationwork flows.Formoreinformation,seeUserAuthenticationConfigurationonpage 197.
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IntroducingOperationsManager
ThankyouforchoosingVMTurboOperationsManager,thepremiersolutionforintelligentworkloadmanagementof cloudandvirtualenvironments.OperationsManagermaintainsyourenvironmentwithintheoptimaloperating zoneoperatingconditionsthatachievethefollowingconflictinggoalsatthesametime: Assuredapplicationperformance Preventbottlenecks,provisionphysicalresources,upsizeVMs,prioritizeworkload. Efficientuseofresources Consolidateworkload,downsizeVMs,preventVMsprawlanddormantVMs.
Keepingavirtualinfrastructurewithintheoptimalzoneisnotasimpleproblem.Youhavetoconsidermanydifferent resources,numerouscontrolpointsforeachdevice,andhowdevicesandresourcesareusedinrelationtoeachother. Asyouadddevicestoyourinfrastructure,thefactorsforeachdecisionincreaseexponentially.Ontopofthat,the environmentisconstantlychangingtostayintheoptimalzone,youareconstantlytryingtohitamovingtarget. Toperformintelligentworkloadmanagement,OperationsManagermodelstheenvironmentasamarketmadeupof buyersandsellers.Thesebuyersandsellersmakeupasupplychainthatrepresentstiersofdevicesinyourinventory. OperationsManagerusesVirtualCurrencytogiveabudgettobuyersandassigncosttoresources.Thisvirtualcur rencyassignsvalueacrossalltiersofyourenvironment,makingitpossibletocomparethecostofapplicationtransac tionswiththecostofspaceonadiskorphysicalspaceinadatacenter. Thepricethatasellerchargesforaresourcechangesaccordingtothesellerssupply.Asdemandincreases,prices increase.Aspricesincrease,buyersandsellersreact.Buyersarefreetolookforothersellersthatofferabetterprice, andsellerscanduplicatethemselves(opennewstorefronts)tomeetincreasingdemand.OperationsManagerusesits EconomicSchedulingEnginetoanalyzethemarketandmakethesedecisions.Theeffectisaninvisiblehandthat dynamicallyguidesyourITinfrastructuretotheoptimaluseofresources. TogetthemostoutofOperationsManager,youshouldunderstandhowitmodelsyourenvironment,thekindof analysisitperforms,andtheoptimalstateitworkstoachieve.Thissectiondescribesthefollowinginmoredetail: TheOptimalOperatingZoneonpage 3 TheMarketandVirtualCurrencyonpage 3 TheEconomicSchedulingEngineonpage 4 TheOperationsManagerSupplyChainonpage 5 OperationsManagerActionsonpage 23 SupplyChainTerminologyonpage 26 ResourceDescriptionsonpage 27
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TheOptimalOperatingZone
TheOptimalOperatingZone
Thegoalofworkloadmanagementistoassureperformancewhilemaintainingefficientuseofresources.Whenper formanceandefficiencyarebothmaintained,youareintheoptimaloperatingzone.Youcanmeasureperformanceas afunctionofdelay,wherezerodelaygivestheidealQoSforagivenservice.Efficientuseofresourcesisafunctionof utilizationwhere100%utilizationofaresourceistheidealforthemostefficientutilization. Ifyouplotdelayandutilization,theresultisanasymptoticcurve.Uptoapoint,asyouincreaseutilization,the increaseindelayisslight.Therecomesapointonthecurvewhereaslightincreaseinutilizationresultsinanunac ceptableincreaseindelay.Ontheotherhand,thereisapointinthecurvewhereareductioninutilizationdoesnt yieldameaningfulincreaseinQoS.Theoptimaloperatingzonelieswithinthesepointsonthecurve. Youcouldsetathresholdtopostanalertwhenevertheupperlimitiscrossed.Inthatcase,youwouldneverreacttoa problemuntildelayhasalreadybecomeunacceptable.Toavoidthatlatereactionyoucouldsetthethresholdtopost analertbeforetheupperlimitiscrossed.Inthatcase,youguaranteeQoSatthecostofoverprovisioningyou increaseoperatingcostsandneverachieveefficientutilization. Insteadofrespondingafterathresholdiscrossed,OperationsManageranalyzestheoperatingconditionsandcon stantlyrecommendsactionstokeeptheentireenvironmentwithintheoptimaloperatingzone.Ifyouexecutethese actions(orletOperationsManagerexecutethemforyou),theenvironmentwillmaintainoperatingconditionsthat assureperformanceforyourcustomers,whilesavingyouasmuchaspossiblebyefficientutilizationofyourresources. ForaquickviewofyourcurrentenvironmentandhowitisconvergingontheOptimalOperatingZone,seeTheWork loadViewonpage 86.
TheMarketandVirtualCurrency
Toperformintelligentworkloadmanagement,OperationsManagermodelstheenvironmentasamarket,anduses marketanalysistomanageresourcesupplyanddemand.Forexample,bottlenecksformwhenlocalworkloaddemand exceedsthelocalcapacityinotherwords,whendemandexceedssupply.Bymodelingtheenvironmentasamarket, OperationsManagercanuseeconomicsolutionstoefficientlyredistributethedemandorincreasethesupply. OperationsManagerusestwosetsofabstractiontomodeltheenvironment:
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ModelingthephysicalandvirtualITstackasaservicesupplychain Thesupplychainmodelsdevicesinyourenvironmentasmanagedentities.Theseincludeapplications,VMs,host machines(physicalmachines,orPMs),storage,anddatacenters.Everyentityisabuyerand/oraseller.Ahost machinebuysphysicalspace,power,andcoolingfromadatacenter.ThePMsellshostresourcessuchasCPU cyclesandmemorytoVMs.Inturn,VMsbuyhostservices,andthenselltheirhostingservices(VMemandVCPU) toapplications. UsingvirtualcurrencytorepresentdelayorQoSdegradation,andtomanagethesupplyanddemandofservices alongthemodeledsupplychain. Thesystemusesvirtualcurrencytovaluethesebuy/selltransactions.Eachmanagedentityhasarunningbudget, anddrawsfromthatbudgettopayfortheresourcesitconsumes.Thepriceofaresourceisdrivenbyitsutilization themoredemandforaresource,thehigheritsprice.
ModelingtheEnvironmentasaMarket
Theseabstractionsopenthewholerangeoftheenvironmenttoasinglemodeofanalysismarketanalysis. Resourcesandservicescanbepricedtoreflectchangesinsupplyanddemand,andpricingcandriveresourcealloca tiondecisions.Forexample,abottleneck(excessdemandoversupply)resultsinrisingpricesofthegivenresource. Applicationscompetingforthesameresourcecanlowertheircostsbyshiftingtheirworkloadstootherresourcesup pliers.Asaresult,utilizationforthatresourceevensoutacrosstheenvironmentandthebottleneckisresolved.
TheEconomicSchedulingEngine
OperationsManagertrackstheUtilizationIndex(UI)forspecificresourcesinyourenvironment.Thehigherthisindex, themorethatresourceisutilized,thegreaterthedelayforconsumersofthatresource,andthegreatertheriskto yourQoS.OperationsManagerconstantlyworkstokeeptheUIwithinacceptablebounds.YoucanthinkofUIasthe costforaresourceOperationsManagerworkstokeepthecostatacompetitivelevel.Thisisnotsimplyamatterof respondingtothresholdconditions.OperationsManageranalyzesthefullrangeofbuyer/sellerrelationships,and eachbuyerconstantlyseeksoutthemosteconomicaltransactionthatisavailable. ThislastpointiscrucialtounderstandingOperationsManager.Thevirtualenvironmentisdynamic,withconstant changestoworkloadandoptimalworkloaddistributionthatcorrespondwiththevaryingrequestsyourcustomers makeofyourapplicationsandservices.Byexaminingeachbuyer/sellerrelationship,theeconomicenginearrivesat theoptimalworkloaddistributionforthecurrentstateoftheenvironment.
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TheOperationsManagerSupplyChain
Forexample,assumeaPMthathostsoneVMwithacriticalapplication,andtwoVMswithnoncriticalapplications. Considerthesesimilarsituations: Thecriticalapplicationhasincreaseduse,andthenoncriticalapplicationsaredormant Inthiscase,OperationsManagercansuspendthetwounusedVMs(reduceVMsprawl)anddevotemorehost resourcestothecriticalapplication. Thecriticalapplicationhasincreaseduse,andbothnoncriticalapplicationsseeincreaseduse Inthiscase,OperationsManagercanmovethenoncriticalVMstoanotherhostanddevotemorehostresources tothecriticalapplication.
Thisisanoversimplecase,butitillustratesthevalueofconstantanalysisofalltherelationships.Forthecriticalappli cation,theresultsarethesame.Butfortheenvironmentasawhole,theresultsarriveatdifferent,economicalsolu tions,toreflectthegivenconditions.Theeconomicengineconsidersalltheentitiesandresourcesinyour environment,andanalyzesthemasynchronouslytoconstantlytendtowardtheoptimaloperatingzone. Note:Inprincipal,youcanrunOperationsManagerwithnothingmorethanitsdefaultsettings.However,itslikely thatyourenvironmenthasspecialservicesandresourcesthatrequiredifferentmanagementdecisions.Operations Managerprovidesafullrangeofpoliciesthatyoucansettocontrolhowthesoftwaremanagesspecificgroupsofenti ties.However,beforeyoumakesuchpolicysettings,youshouldunderstandhowOperationsManagerworksby default.Formoreinformationaboutpolicies,seeThePolicyViewonpage 234.
OperationsManagermodelsyourenvironmentasamarketofbuyersandsellers.Atitssimplest,amarketmodel couldclassifyeachentityasjustabuyerandaseller.However,avirtualenvironmenthastiersofresourcesandser vices.Also,differenttargetsthatOperationsManagercanmonitorrepresentdifferenttiersorgroupings.Forexample, ahypervisorrepresentsapplications,VMs,PMs,datastores,anddatacenters,whilealoadbalancerrepresentsvirtual applicationsandacloudstackrepresentsvirtualdatacenters.Thesetiersformachainofsupplyanddemand,where onetiersuppliesresourcestomeetthedemandsofanothertier. TheOperationsManageruserinterfacedisplaysthesupplychaininthefollowingtiers.Toseethefullinventory,with navigationliststhatshowthefullsupplychain,seeTheInventoryViewonpage 151. VirtualApplicationsonpage 6 Applicationsonpage 7 VirtualMachinesonpage 9 PhysicalMachinesonpage 11 Storageonpage 13 DiskArraysonpage 14 StorageControllersonpage 16 IOModulesonpage 17 FabricInterconnectsonpage 18 Datacentersonpage 19 ProviderVirtualDatacentersonpage 20 OrganizationVirtualDatacentersonpage 22
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VirtualApplications
Avirtualapplicationisthelogicalapplicationserver(sometimescalledavserver)thataloadbalancerusestomarshal accesstoloadbalancedapplications.Intheloadbalancer,eachvirtualapplicationhasbindingstotheapplicationsit manages.Endusersmakerequeststothevirtualapplication,andtheloadbalancerforwardsthoserequeststothe actualapplications.
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Budget: Provides: Consumes: Discoveredthrough: Avirtualserverhasunlimitedbudgettobuyapplicationresources.Asaresult,avirtual applicationwillneverbesuspended. Transactionstoendusersandotherapplications. ApplicationsrunningonVMs. OperationsManagerdiscoversvirtualapplicationserversthroughloadbalancertargets(see AddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
Loadbalancersmanagethetrafficofrequeststoapplicationsinyourenvironment.Thevirtualapplicationisalogical constructoftheloadbalancer.Forinformationaboutbindingloadbalancedapplicationstothevirtualapplication, seeLoadBalancerDiscoveryonpage 266.
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforavirtualapplication: Transaction(transactionspersecond) Thepercentageutilizationoftheallocatedtransactionspersecondforthegivenvirtualapplication.
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Actions
OperationsManagerdoesnotrecommendactionstoperformonthevirtualapplicationitself,butitdoesrecommend actionstoperformontheVMsthathostboundapplications.Forexample,assumeavirtualapplicationthatmanages threeSQLdatabases.Ifasurgeinrequestsdegradesperformanceacrossallthreedatabases,thenOperationsMan agercanstartanewVMtorunanotherinstanceofthedatabaseapplication,andbindittothevirtualapplication.On theotherhand,ifSQLrequestsdropoffsothattheloadbalanceronlyforwardsrequeststotwoofthedatabases, OperationsManagercansuspendthedormantdatabaseandunbinditfromthevirtualapplication.
Applications
Inavirtualizedenvironment,anapplicationisaprocessrunningonaVM.Applicationstypicallyservehumanusers,or otherapplications.Theyprovidetransactionstotheirusers.
Synopsis
Budget: Anapplicationgainsitsbudgetasafunctionofitsactivity,asmeasuredbyutilizationof transactions.Themoreactiveanapplicationis(themoretransactionstheapplicationperforms), themoreOperationsManagerassumestheapplicationissellingitsservicestoauser. Transactionstootherapplications,toloadbalancerVirtualApplicationServers,andtoendusers. VMresources,includingVCPU,VMem,andVStorage. OperationsManagerusesWMI,SNMP,orJMXtodiscoverapplicationsthroughthecurrent targethypervisors. Forinformation,seeAddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208.
Provides: Consumes: Discoveredthrough:
ApplicationDiscovery
Bydefault,OperationsManagerdiscoversthefollowingapplications:
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MicrosoftActiveDirectoryservices MicrosoftInternetInformationServices CitrixXenDesktop VMWareView MicrosoftSQLServer MicrosoftSharepointServer TheresourcesthatOperationsManagerhasnotassignedtoanyspecificapplication(for moreinformation,seeGuestLoadonpage 8)
Inaddition,yourinstallationofOperationsManagermightbeconfiguredtodiscoverotherapplicationsrunningin yourenvironment.Formoreinformation,seeApplicationDiscoveryonpage 262.
GuestLoad
TheApps_GuestLoaditemisaspecialentryintheApplicationshierarchy.ThisitemtrackstheresourcesthatOpera tionsManagerhasnotassignedtoanyspecificapplication.Thiscanoccurforthefollowingreasons: YoudonothavethelicensesrequiredtosupportApplicationmonitoringInthiscase,OperationsManagerlistsall theconsumedVMresourcesintheApps_GuestLoadentrythisistheonlyentryunderApplications. OperationsManagerfailstodiscoversomeapplicationsInthiscase,OperationsManagerdisplaysentriesforthe applicationsithasdiscovered,andliststheVMresourcesthatarenotaccountedforunderApps_GuestLoad. VMresourcesaredevotedtoinfrastructure,andnotpartofanyapplicationOperationsManagerliststhese resourcesunderApps_GuestLoad,andprovidesentriesfortheapplicationsithasdiscovered.
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforanapplication: VMem ThepercentageutilizationoftheVMemallocatedforthehostingVM,measuredinKbytes. VCPU ThepercentageutilizationoftheVCPUallocatedforthehostingVM,measuredinMhz. Transaction(transactionspersecond) Thepercentageutilizationoftheallocatedtransactionspersecondforthegivenvirtualapplication.
Actions
Forenvironmentsthatincludeloadbalancers,OperationsManagerrecommendsandperformsBind/Unbindactions onapplications.Theseactionsincreaseordecreasecapacityforagivenloadbalancer.
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OtherthanBind/Unbind,OperationsManagerdoesntperformactionsonapplications.Instead,itperformsactions onthehostVMs.Ifutilizationishighenoughonanapplication,OperationsManagercancreateanewcopyofthehost VM.Whenanapplicationisidle,itlosesbudget.Ultimately,ifthebudgetfallsenough,OperationsManagerwillsus pendorterminatethehostVM. Youcandeclarethatanapplicationiscritical.Doingthisgivestheapplicationunlimitedbudget,soitshostVMwill neverbesuspended.Formoreinformation,seeApplicationPriorityonpage 260.
VirtualMachines
Avirtualmachine(VM)isasoftwareemulationofaphysicalmachine,includingOS,virtualmemoryandCPUs,and networkports.VMshostapplications.
Synopsis
Budget: AVMgainsitsbudgetbysellingresourcestotheapplicationsithosts.Ifutilizationishigh enough,OperationsManagercancreateanewcopyofthegivenVM. Ifutilizationfallsoff,theVMlosesbudget.Ultimately,ifthebudgetisntenoughtopayforthe hostservicesitconsumes,OperationsManagerwillsuspendorpowerofftheVM. Hostresourcesforapplicationstouse: VMEM(Kbytes) VCPU(MHz) VStorage IOPs(storageaccessoperationspersecond) Latency(capacityfordisklatencyinms)
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Consumes: Discoveredthrough: Physicalhostresources,includingCPUandMem Storage OperationsManagerdiscoversVMsthroughhypervisortargets. Forinformation,seeAddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208.
NotethattheinventorygroupsVMsbythephysicalmachinesthathostthem.Intheuserinterface,thisisalogical groupingthatmakesiteasiertovisualizethedistributionofVMsacrossyourenvironment.Also,theVMiconsidentify managinghypervisorsbyvendor,andVMstate(seeResourceIconsonpage 36).
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforaVM: VMem ThepercentageutilizationofthevirtualmemoryallocatedfortheVM,measuredinKbytes. VCPU ThepercentageutilizationofthevirtualCPUcapacityallocatedfortheVM,measuredinMhz. VStorage ThepercentageutilizationofthevirtualstoragecapacityallocatedfortheVM,measuredinKbytes. IOPS(StorageAccessOperationsperSecond) ThepercentageutilizationofIOPSallocatedfortheVStorageontheVM. Latency ThepercentageutilizationoflatencyallocatedfortheVStorageontheVM,measuredinms.
Actions
OperationsManagerrecommendsthefollowingactionsforaVM: StartanewVMfor: HighresourceutilizationonVM HighresourceutilizationonhostingPM ExcessIOPSorLatencyinVStorage Terminate(Remove)VM ForaVMthathasbeensuspendedforalongperiod. SuspendVM ForlowutilizationofVMsresources. MoveVMfor: HighresourceutilizationonVM HighresourceutilizationonhostingPM ExcessIOPSorLatencyinVStorage Workloadplacementviolation HostingPMisunderutilized(movebeforesuspendingPM) MoveVMStorage Forexcessutilizationofthecurrentdatastore,orformoreefficientutilizationofdatastoresintheenvironment.
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ReconfigureStorage Foroverutilizedstorageresources,addVStoragecapacity. Forunderutilizedstorageresources,removeVStoragecapacity. ReconfigureVM Changenetworkandstorageconfiguration.Forexample,OperationsManagerrecommendsthisactioniftheVM isconfiguredtouseanetworkthatitcannotaccess. ChangeVCPUandVMemcapacity.
PhysicalMachines
Aphysicalmachine(PMorHost)isaserverthatrunsahypervisorprocess.ThismeansthePMcanhostVMsthatare managedbythegivenhypervisor.NotethataPMisnotnecessarilyaphysicalbox,orcomputingiron.AVMcanbeset upasaserverthatrunsahypervisor,anditcaninturnhostotherVMswithinitsprocessingspace.However,itsmost usualtouseironasyourPMs.
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Budget: APMgainsitsbudgetbysellingresourcestotheVMsithosts.ThemoreVMsrunningonaPM, themorebudgetthePMhastopurchasestorageanddatacenterresources.IfutilizationofaPM ishighenough,OperationsManagercanrecommendthatyouprovisionanewPM. Ifutilizationfallsoff,thePMlosesbudget.Ultimately,ifthebudgetisntenoughtopayforthe servicesitconsumes,OperationsManagerwillsuspendorpoweroffthePM. HostresourcesforVMstouse: Mem(Kbytes) CPU(MHz) IO(throughputontheI/Obus) Net(networkthroughput) Swap(swapratecapacitymeasuredinbytes/sec) Ballooning(sharingofmemoryamonghostedVMs) CPUReadyQueue(waittimeonthequeueinms)
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Consumes: Discoveredthrough: Datacenterresources(physicalspace,cooling,etc.)andstorage. OperationsManagerdiscoversPMsthroughhypervisortargets(seeAddingandRemovingTarget VirtualManagementServersonpage 208).Forsomehypervisorvendors,thePMisthetarget, andforothersthePMsaremanagedbythespecifiedtarget.
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforaPM: Mem ThepercentageofthePMsmemorythatisreservedorinuse,measuredinKbytes. CPU ThepercentageofthePMsCPUcyclesthatarereservedorinuse,measuredinKbytes. IO ThedataratethroughthePMsIOadapters.ChartsshowthepercentageofthePMsIOcapacitythatisinuse, measuredinKbytespersecond. Net ThedataratethroughthePMsnetworkadapters.ChartsshowthepercentageofthePMsnetworkthroughput capacitythatisinuse,measuredinKbytespersecond. Swap ThepercentageofthePMsallocatedswapspacethatisinuse,measuredinKbytes. Balloon ThesharingofmemoryamongVMsrunningonthehost.ChartsshowpercentageofthePMsballooningcapacity thatisinuse,measuredinKbytes. 1,2,4CPUReady ThepercentageofthePMsallocatedreadyqueuecapacitythatisinuse,measuredinKbytes.Chartsshowthe percentageorwaittimeforalltheVMsonagivenhostPM.
Actions
OperationsManagerrecommendsthefollowingactionsforaPM: StartPM Forincreaseddemandofphysicalresources,startupasuspendedPM. ProvisionPM Forincreaseddemandofphysicalresources,installanewPMintheenvironment.OperationsManagerwillthen moveworkloadtothathost. SuspendPM ForunderutilizedresourcesonaPM,moveexistingworkloadtootherhostsandsuspendthePM. Terminate(Remove)PM ForaPMthathasbeensuspendedforaperiodoftime,removethePM.
Note:OperationsManagerdiscoversVMWareHAconfigurationsinclusters,andconsidersthereservedresourcesin itscalculations.Fortoleratedhostfailures,orareservedpercentageofclusterresources,OperationsManagerauto maticallysetsutilizationconstraintsforthatcluster(seeUtilizationConstraintsonpage 251).Ifyouconfigureafailover
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host,OperationsManagerreservesthathostforHAandwillnotmoveVMstoit.Youcanseeafailovericon( thereservedhostintheInventorytree.
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Storage
StorageisrepresentedinOperationsManagerasDatastores.ADatastoreisalogicalgroupingofoneormorephysical storagedevicesthatserveVMstoragerequirements.
Synopsis
Budget: Provides: ADatastoregainsitsbudgetbysellingresourcestotheVMsitserves.IfutilizationofaDatastore ishighenough,OperationsManagercanrecommendthatyouprovisionanewone. HostresourcesforVMstouse: Storageamount IOPs(storageaccessoperationspersecond) Latency(capacityfordisklatencyinms) Diskarrays. OperationsManagerdiscoversDatastoresthroughhypervisortargets(seeAddingandRemoving TargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
Consumes: Discoveredthrough:
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforadatastore: Storage Thestorageallocatedtoastoragecontrolleristhetotalofallthephysicalspaceavailabletothestoragecontroller. Thisincludesdisksfordiskarrays,sparedisks,orotherphysicalspacethecontrollermanages.Incharts,this metricshowsthepercentageofthisstoragethatisutilizedbythecharteddevice. CPU ThepercentageutilizationofCPUresourcesallocatedtothestoragecontroller.
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Actions
OperationsManagerrecommendsthefollowingactionsforadatastore: StartStorage Forhighutilizationofstorageresources,startasuspendeddatastore. ProvisionStorage Forhighutilizationofstorageresources,provisionanewdatastore. SuspendStorage Forlowutilizationofstorageresources,moveservedVMstootherdatastoresandsuspendthisone. TerminateStorage(Remove) Foradatastorethathasbeensuspendedforaperiodoftime,removethedatastore. Move(onlywiththeStorageExtension) Forhighutilizationofphysicalstorage,movedatastoretoadifferentstoragedevice. Resize(onlywiththeStorageExtension) Increaseordecreasethedatastorecapacity.
DiskArrays
ADiskArrayisadatastoragesystemmadeupofmultiplediskdrives.Forexample,aRAIDisadiskarraythatimple mentsredundancyandotherdatamanagementfeatures.Adiskarrayprovidesstoragevolumestoservethestorage requirementsofphysicalmachines.Adiskarrayusestheresourcesofonestoragecontroller,whichmanagesthedisk arrayoperation. OperationsManagersupportsdiskarrayswhenyouhaveinstalledtheStorageExtensionlicense. Intheinventorytree,thediskarraysaregroupedbythestoragecontrollerthatmanagesthem.Forexample,the abovefigureshowsthreediskarraysmanagedbyonestoragecontroller.
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Synopsis
Budget: Provides: Adiskarraygainsitsbudgetbysellingresourcestothedatastoresitserves.Ifutilizationofadisk arrayishighenough,OperationsManagercanrecommendthatyouprovisionanewone. Storageresourcesfordatastorestouse: Storageamount StorageProvisioned IOPs(storageaccessoperationspersecond) Latency(capacityfordisklatencyinms) Storagecontrollers OperationsManagerdiscoversdiskarraysthroughstoragecontrollertargets(seeAddingand RemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforadiskarray: Storage Thepercentageutilizationofthestorageallocatedforthegivendiskarray.Thisisasumoftheaggregatedphysical storagethatthearrayexposestotheenvironment. StorageProvisioned Thepercentageutilizationofthestoragethatwasprovisionedforthisdiskarray.Thisencompassesover provisioningofstorage,aswellasthinprovisioningontheVMs,deduplication,compression,andotherstorage optimizations.Forexample,assumestorageoverprovisioningof200%astheonlystorageoptimization,andthe currentStorageutilizationisat50%.Inthiscase,StorageProvisionedwouldshowavalueof25%. IOPSStorageAccessOperationsperSecond ThepercentageutilizationofallocatedIOPS.Thediskarrayaggregatesthisvalueforallitsvolumes.Inother words,allvolumesonagivendiskarrayshowthesamevalueforthisresource. Latency Thepercentageutilizationofallocatedlatency.Thediskarrayaggregatesthisvalueforallitsvolumes.Inother words,allvolumesonagivendiskarrayshowthesamevalueforthisresource.
Actions
OperationsManagerrecommendsthefollowingactionsforadiskarray: ProvisionDiskArray Forhighutilizationofthediskarraysstorage,provisionanewdiskarray. StartDiskArray Forhighutilizationofdiskarray,startasuspendeddiskarray. SuspendDiskArray Forlowutilizationofthediskarraysstorage,moveVMstodatastoresandsuspendvolumesonthediskarray. MoveVM ForhighutilizationofaStorageonavolume,OperationsManagercanmoveaVMtoanothervolume.Thenew volumecanbeonthecurrentdiskarray,oronanyotherdatastore. ForhighIOPSorLatency,amoveisalwaysfromthecurrentarraytoanotherdiskarrayorotherdatastore.Thisis becauseallthevolumesonagivendiskarrayshowthesameIOPSandLatency.
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StorageControllers
AStorageControllerisadevicethatmanagesoneormorediskarrays.ThestoragecontrollerprovidesCPUcyclesto performstoragemanagementtasksforeachdiskarrayitmanages. OperationsManagersupportsstoragecontrollerswhenyouhaveinstalledtheStorageExtensionlicense.
Synopsis
Budget: Astoragecontrollergainsitsbudgetbysellingresourcestothediskarraysitmanages.If utilizationofthestoragecontrollersCPUresourcesishighenough,OperationsManagercan recommendthatyouprovisionanewoneandmovediskarraystoit. CPUandstorageresourcesfordiskarrays: Storageamount CPU IOmodulesthatconnectthecontrollertotheLANontheonehand,andtothediskarraysonthe other. OperationsManagerdirectlyaccessesstoragecontrollertargets(seeAddingandRemoving TargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
Provides:
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforastoragecontroller: Storage Thestorageallocatedtoastoragecontrolleristhetotalofallthephysicalspaceavailabletothestoragecontroller. Thisincludesdisksfordiskarrays,sparedisks,orotherphysicalspacethecontrollermanages.Incharts,this metricshowsthepercentageofthisstoragethatisutilizedbythecharteddevice.
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CPU ThepercentageutilizationofCPUresourcesallocatedtothestoragecontroller.
Actions
OperationsManagerrecommendsthefollowingactionsforastoragecontroller: ProvisionStorageController ForhighutilizationofthestoragecontrollersCPU,provisionanewstoragecontroller,andthenmovediskarrays toit.
IOModules
AnIOModuleisaswitchthatconnectsastoragecontrolleranditsdiskarraystothenetwork.Itprovidesastorage controllerwithNetresources.TypicalinstallationsprovidetwoIOmodulesperstoragecontroller. OperationsManagersupportsIOmoduleswhenyouhaveinstalledtheStorageExtensionlicense.
Synopsis
Budget: Provides: Consumes: Discoveredthrough: AnIOmodulegainsitsbudgetbysellingNetresourcestoastoragecontroller. Netresources ChassisadSwitch OperationsManagerdiscoversIOmodulesthroughthestoragecontrollertargetsthatusethem (seeAddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
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MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforanIOmodule: Net ThepercentageutilizationofthetotalnetworkthroughputallocatedfortheIOmodule.
FabricInterconnects
AFabricInterconnectconnectsserverstothenetworkandstorage.Atypicaldeploymentincludestwoswitchesforan AsideandaBside.Thefabricinterconnectprovidesnetworkbandwidthtotheserversintheplatform. OperationsManagersupportsfabricinterconnectswhenyouhaveinstalledtheConvergedFabricExtensionlicense.
Synopsis
Budget: Provides: Consumes: Discoveredthrough: AfabricinterconnectgainsitsbudgetbysellingNetresourcestoservers. Netresources N/A OperationsManagerdiscoversfabricinterfacesthroughtheUCSplatformtargetsthatusethem (seeAddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforanIOmodule: Net ThepercentageutilizationofthetotalnetworkthroughputallocatedfortheIOmodule.
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Datacenters
ForOperationsManager,adatacenteristhesumofVMs,PMs,datastores,andnetworkdevicesthataremanagedby agivenhypervisortarget.Adatacenterprovidescompute,memory,storage,andbandwidthresources.
Synopsis
Budget: Provides: Consumes: Discoveredthrough: ADatastorehasunlimitedbudget. Datacenterresources(physicalspace,cooling,etc.). N/A OperationsManagerdiscoversDatastoresthroughhypervisortargets(seeAddingandRemoving TargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforadatacenter: Mem ThepercentageofthePMsmemorythatisreservedorinuse,measuredinKbytes. CPU ThepercentageofthePMsCPUcyclesthatarereservedorinuse,measuredinKbytes. IO ThedataratethroughthePMsIOadapters.ChartsshowthepercentageofthePMsIOcapacitythatisinuse, measuredinKbytespersecond. Net ThedataratethroughthePMsnetworkadapters.ChartsshowthepercentageofthePMsnetworkthroughput capacitythatisinuse,measuredinKbytespersecond.
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Swap ThepercentageofthePMsallocatedswapspacethatisinuse,measuredinKbytes. Balloon ThesharingofmemoryamongVMsrunningonthehost.ChartsshowpercentageofthePMsballooningcapacity thatisinuse,measuredinKbytes. 1,2,4CPUReady ThepercentageofthePMsallocatedreadyqueuecapacitythatisinuse,measuredinKbytes.Chartsshowthe percentageorwaittimeforalltheVMsonagivenhostPM.
Actions
OperationsManagerdoesnotrecommendactionstoperformonadatacenter.Instead,itrecommendsactionstoper formonthedevicesrunninginthedatacenter.
ProviderVirtualDatacenters
Aprovidervirtualdatacenter(vDC)isacollectionofphysicalresources(PMsanddatastores)managedbyacloud stack.Thecloudadministratorhasaccesstotheseresources,anddefinesthedatacentermembers.Usuallyaprovider vDCiscreatedtomanageresourcesthatwillbeexposedtoexternalcustomersthroughoneormoreorganizational vDCs.
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Synopsis
Budget: AProvidervDCgainsitsbudgetbysellingresourcestotheOrganizationvDCsthatithosts.If utilizationfallsoff,thedatacenterlosesbudget.Ultimately,ifthebudgetisntenoughtopayfor theservicesitconsumes,OperationsManagerwillterminatetheProvidervDC. PhysicalresourcessuchasPMsanddatastores. PMsanddatastores OperationsManagerdiscoversvDCsthroughcloudstackmanagerssuchasvCloudDirector(see AddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforaprovidervirtualdatacenter: Mem Thepercentageofphysicalmachinememorythatisreservedorinuse,measuredinKbytes.Foravirtual datacenter,thisismeasuredagainstthesumofthememoryallocatedtothephysicalmachinesinthedatacenter. Storage Thestorageallocatedtoastoragecontrolleristhetotalofallthephysicalspaceavailabletothestoragecontroller. Thisincludesdisksfordiskarrays,sparedisks,orotherphysicalspacethecontrollermanages.Incharts,this metricshowsthepercentageofthisstoragethatisutilizedbythecharteddevice. CPU ThepercentageutilizationofCPUresourcesallocatedtothestoragecontroller.
Actions
OperationsManagerdoesnotrecommendactionstoperformonavirtualdatacenter.Instead,itrecommendsactions toperformonthedevicesrunninginthedatacenter.
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OrganizationVirtualDatacenters
AnOrganizationVirtualDatacenter(vDC)isacollectionofresourcesthatareavailableforexternalcustomerstoman agethroughthecloud.Itisanenvironmentcustomerscanusetostore,deploy,andoperatevirtualsystems.
Synopsis
Budget: AnOrganizationvDCgainsitsbudgetasafunctionofitsactivity.Thehighertheutilizationofthe vDC,themoreOperationsManagerassumesthevDCissellingitsservicestoauser. IfutilizationishighenoughonanOrganizationvDC,OperationsManagercanincreaseresources forthevDC.Ifutilizationfallsof,OperationsManagercanreduceresourcecapacity,orultimately terminatethevDC. OperationsManagercanalsoresizeVMsthroughtheOrganizationvDCinresponsetochangesin VMutilization. Physicalresourcestohostvirtualsystems. ProvidervDC OperationsManagerdiscoversvDCsthroughcloudstackmanagerssuchasvCloudDirector(see AddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208).
OperationsManagerdisplaysProvidervDCsintheinventoryasfollows:
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OperationsManagerActions
WhileuserscanseesomeofthephysicalresourcesthatsupporttheorganizationvDC,organizationleveluserscannot modifythesephysicalresources.UsersoforganizationvDCsmakechangestohowthevirtualdevicesaredeployedin thatenvironment,butthemustaskadministratorstoaddmorephysicalresourcestotheorganizationvDC.Likewise, OperationsManagercanchangeVMsrunninginthevDC,butitdoesnotmakeanychangestophysicalresources throughthisvDC.
MonitoredResources
OperationsManagermonitorsthefollowingresourcesforaprovidervirtualdatacenter: Mem Thepercentageofphysicalmachinememorythatisreservedorinuse,measuredinKbytes.Foravirtual datacenter,thisismeasuredagainstthesumofthememoryallocatedtothephysicalmachinesinthedatacenter. Storage Thestorageallocatedtoastoragecontrolleristhetotalofallthephysicalspaceavailabletothestoragecontroller. Thisincludesdisksfordiskarrays,sparedisks,orotherphysicalspacethecontrollermanages.Incharts,this metricshowsthepercentageofthisstoragethatisutilizedbythecharteddevice. CPU ThepercentageutilizationofCPUresourcesallocatedtothestoragecontroller.
Actions
OperationsManagerdoesnotrecommendactionstoperformonavirtualdatacenter.Instead,itrecommendsactions toperformonthedevicesrunninginthedatacenter.
OperationsManagerdoesmorethantrackproblemsinyourenvironment.Beforeproblemsoccur,OperationsMan ageridentifiesactionsyoucantaketoavoidtheproblems.Youcanperformtheseactionsmanually,directOperations Managertoperformtheactionsoncommand,ordirectOperationsManagertoperformactionsautomaticallyasthey arise.Youcansetdifferentactionmodes(whethertoautomateornot)forindividualactions(seeActionModeson page 254). Note:Torecommendandperformactions,theOperationsManagerEconomicSchedulingEnginetreatsyourenviron mentasamarketwithprovidersandconsumers.Entitiesinthemarketinteractinprovider/consumerrelationships. Forexample,aPMhostsaVMThePMprovidescomputeresources,physicalmemory,andnetworkthroughputto theVM,andtheVMconsumestheseresources. OperationsManagerperformsfourgeneraltypesofactions: ProvisionAddingresourcecapacity,usuallybyaddinganentity DecommissionStopping,suspending,orremovinganentity MovePlacingaconsumeronadifferenthost ResizeChangingtheallocationofresourcesonanentity
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Provision
Provisioningactionsaddcapacitytoyourenvironment.Forexample,provisioningaPMaddsmorecomputecapacity thatisavailabletohostVMs.ProvisioningaVMaddscapacitytorunapplications.OperationsManagercanprovision thefollowing: VMs PMs Storage DiskArrays
Note:Inpractice,provisioningforaStorageControlleronlyoccursinplanningscenarios.Inyourenvironment,you wouldmanuallyadddiskarraystostoragecontrollers,andwouldnotbeabletoaddanarrayiftherewasnotastorage controllerpresenttohostit.
Decommission
Decommissioningactionseitherterminateentities(removethemfrotheenvironment)orsuspendthem(set resourcesasidewithoutremovingthemfromtheenvironment).Suspendedcapacityisstillavailable,butiscurrently notinuse.Suspendedresourcesarecandidatesforremoval.OperationsManagercandecommissionthefollowing: VMs PMs Storage DiskArrays
Move
Movesareactionsthatchangeaconsumertouseadifferentprovider.Forexample,movingaVMassignstheVMto behostedonadifferentPM.MovingaVMsstoragemeanstheVMwilluseadifferentdatastore.OperationsManager canmovethefollowing: VMs Storage
Resize
Resizeactionsallocatemoreorfewerresourcesonanentity.TypicalresizingincludesaddingorsubtractingVCPUsor VMemonaVM,addingorsubtractingcapacityonadatastore,andaddingorsubtractingvolumesinadiskarray. OperationsManagercanresizethefollowing: VMs Storage DiskArrays(forexample,startanadditionaldriveinthearray)
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ThefollowingtablesummarizestheactionsOperationsManagercanperformorrecommendfortheinventoryitems inthesupplychain:
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VirtualApplication
Provision
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Resize
N/A Applicationsignaturesidentifywhichapplicationsareboundtospecificloadbalancers.AsOperations ManagerprovisionsordecommissionsVMsrunningtheseapplications,thoseactionsincreaseor decreasethecapacityofavirtualapplication.Inthisway,OperationsManageraddsorsubtracts capacityonaloadbalancer Forinformationaboutloadbalancertargets,seeLoadBalancerDiscoveryonpage 266. BindOnlyfor environmentswitha loadbalancer Start UnbindOnlyfor environmentswitha loadbalancer Suspend Terminate(remove VM) N/A N/A
Application
VM
MoveVM(to differenthost, datastore,etc.)
Reconfigure (includingadd missingnetworkor reconfigurestorage) Resize(change amountofmemory orstorage) N/A
PM
Start Provision Start Provision
Suspend Terminate(remove PM) Suspend Terminate(remove datastore)
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Storage(datastores forVMs)
Move(todifferent storagedevice onlyavailablewith theStorage Extension) N/A
Resize(onlyavailable withtheStorage Extension)
DiskArray(only availablewiththe StorageExtension) StorageController (onlyavailablewith theStorage Extension) IOModule(only availablewiththe StorageExtension) FabricInterconnect (onlyavailablewith theConvergedFabric Extension) Datacenter
Start Provision Provision
Suspend
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N/A OperationsManagerdoesnotrecommendactionstoperformonthedatacenteritself,butitdoes recommendactionstoperformontheentitiesrunninginthedatacenter.
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InventoryItem
VirtualDatacenter
Provision
Decommission
Move
Resize
Resize(changethe amountofCPU, memory,orstorage allocatedtoaVDC)
N/A OperationsManagerdoesnotrecommendtheseactionstoperformonthe virtualdatacenteritself,butitdoesrecommendactionstoperformonthe entitiesrunninginthevirtualdatacenter.
SupplyChainTerminology
VMTurbointroducesspecifictermstoexpressITresourcesandutilizationintermsofsupplyanddemand.These termsarelargelyintuitive,butyoushouldbesureyouunderstandhowtheyrelatetotheissuesandactivitiesthatare commonforITmanagement.
Term:
Commodity
Definition:
ThebasicbuildingblockofVMTurbosupplyanddemand.EverythingaVMTurboproductrepresentsor analyzesisacommodity.Forexample,theCPUcapacityormemorythataphysicalmachinecanprovide isacommodity.TheOperationsManagercanalsorepresentclustersandsegmentsascommodities. Whentheuserinterfaceshowscommodities,itsshowingtheresourcesaserviceprovides.Whenthe interfaceshowscommoditiesbought,itsshowingwhatthatserviceconsumes. Theresourcesorcommoditiesthatmakeupthegivenservice.Forexample,intheuserinterfaceyou mightseethatacertainVMiscomposedofcommoditiessuchasoneormorephysicalCPUs,anEthernet interface,andphysicalmemory. CompareComposedOftoConsumes,whereconsumptionreferstothecommoditiestheVMhasbought. AlsocompareComposedOftothecommoditiesaserviceoffersforsale.Aphysicalmachinemight includefourCPUsinitscomposition,butthecommoditiesthemachineofferswillshowtheseCPUs aggregatedasasinglecommodity. Theservicesandcommoditiesaservicehasbought.Aserviceconsumesothercommodities.For example,aVMconsumesthecommoditiesofferedbyaphysicalmachine,andanapplicationconsumes commoditiesfromoneormoreVMs.Notethatintheuserinterfaceyoucanexploretheservicesthat providethecommoditiesthecurrentserviceconsumes. Thesumofdatacenter,network,physicalmachine,storage,VM,andapplicationresourcesthatyouare monitoring. Thelistofallcommoditiesinyourenvironment. AmeasureoftherisktoQualityofService(QoS)thataconsumerwillexperience.ThehighertheUIona provider,themorerisktoQoSforanyconsumerofthatprovidersservices. Forexample,aphysicalmachineprovideshostservicestooneormoreVMs.ThehighertheUIonthe provider,themorelikelyitisthattheVMswillexperienceQoSdegradation. Notethatforoptimaloperation,theUIonaprovidershouldnotgointodoubledigits.Intheabove example,ifthePMhasaUIof16ormore,theVMsareverylikelytosufferQoSdegradation. Afunctioningcommoditiesgroupsuchasaphysicalmachine,aVM,oranapplication. Thepercentageovertimethatacommodityisused,where100%isutilizationofthefullcapacity. ThecollectionofVMsrunningonagivenphysicalmachine.Becauseanenvironmentcanhavemany VMs,theuserinterfaceshowsVMgroupsasawaytosimplifyandorganizetheirpresentation.
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Environment Inventory UtilizationIndex
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ResourceDescriptions
ResourceDescriptions
Toperformintelligentworkloadbalancing,OperationsManagercollectsrawdatafromitstargetservers(hypervisors, cloudmanagementstacks,orloadbalancers).OperationsManagerasynchronouslypollsitstargetserversat10min uteintervalstocollectthetarget'slatestdatasamples.Itthenusesthese10minutedatapointsforanalysisandto displaydataintheGUI. ThewayOperationsManagercollectshostmemorydatafromvCenterServerillustrateshowthisworks.vCenter ServercollectspeakmetricsfromitsmanagedVMsat20secondintervals.EverytenminutesOperationsManager pollsvCenterServertocollectitslastroundofdatasamples(30samplesin10minutes).TotrackaVM'sutilizationof hostmemory,OperationsManagerrequestsmemory.activedatasamples.Fromthatpolling,OperationsManagercan track: MaxMemoryUtilizationOperationsManagerusesthehighestvalueineachpollingsample.Thisgivesthe highestpercentageofactivememoryutilizationfortheselectedVM(orgroupofVMs),plottedovertheselected timeperiod.Foramaxvalue,OperationsManagerusesthehighestobservedactivememoryvalueinthedata sample. AverageMemoryUtilizationOperationsManageraveragesallthevaluesineachpollingsample.
ThefollowingtableliststhemetricsOperationsManagercollects,andincludesdetailsabouthowtheyarecollectedor measured.Forchartsofclustersorgroupsofdevices,chartsshowtheaverageofthepercentageofallocated resourcesthatareused.
Resource:
124CPURdy
Description:
Waittimeinthereadyqueueonthehost,measuredinms.Chartsshowthepercentageallocatedready queuecapacitythatisinuseonthehost.Forhostcharts,thisisameasureofthetotalreadyqueuewait timeforalltheVMsrunningonthathost. Ballooningcapacityonthehost,measuredinKbytes.Ballooningindicatesthesharingofmemoryamong theVMsonagivenhost.Chartsshowthepercentageallocatedballooningcapacitythatisinuseonthe host. HostCPUcapacity,measuredinMhz.ThisshowswhatpercentageofCPUcyclesaredevotedto processinginstructions. HostchartsshowthepercentageofthehostsCPUcapacitythatisinuse. VMchartsshowthepercentageofthehostsCPUcapacitythatisconsumedbythegivenVM. DataratethroughthehostsIOadapter,measuredinKbytes/sec. DatacenterchartsshowtheaveragepercentageofthehostIOcapacitythatisinuse,forallthehostsin thedatacenter. HostchartsshowthepercentageofthehoststotalIOcapacitythatisinuse. Storageaccessoperationspersecond.ChartsshowthepercentageofallocatedIOPScapacitythatisused onadatastore. Allocatedcapacityforlatencyonadatastore.ThismeasuresthelatencyexperiencedbyallVMsandhosts thataccessthedatastore.Chartsshowthepercentageofallocatedlatencythatisinuseonthedatastore. Hostmemory,measuredinKbytes. Hostchartsshowthepercentageofthehostsmemorythatisinuse. VMchartsshowthepercentageofthehostsmemorythatisconsumedbythegivenVM. DataratethroughthehostsNetworkadapter,measuredinKbytes/sec. DatacenterchartsshowtheaveragepercentageofthehostNETcapacitythatisusedforallthehostsin thedatacenter. HostchartsshowthepercentageofthehoststotalNETcapacitythatisinuse.
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Storage Storage Provisioned Swap Transactions UI
Description:
Datastorecapacity,measuredinKbytes.Datastorechartsshowthepercentageofadatastorescapacity thatisinuse. Thisresourceshowshowmuchthegivenstorageisoversubscribed.StorageProvisionedcapacityisthe storagecapacitymultipliedbytheStorageOverprovisionedPercentage(200bydefault).Thehigherthis value,thegreatertheriskthatstorageisovercommitted. Allocatedswapspaceonthehost.Chartsshowthepercentageofahostsallocatedswapspacethatisin use. Transactionspersecondinanapplication.Chartsshowthepercentageofanapplicationsallocated transactioncapacitythatisinuse. AmeasureoftherisktoQualityofService(QoS)thataconsumerwillexperience.ThehighertheUIona provider,themorerisktoQoSforanyconsumerofthatprovidersservices.ChartsshowtheUIforthe givendevice. VirtualCPUcapacityonaVM,measuredinMhz.ChartsshowthepercentageofaVMsVCPUcyclesthat aredevotedtoprocessinginstructions. VirtualmemoryallocatedonaVM,measuredinKbytes.ChartsshowthepercentageofaVMsallocated VMemthatisinuse. NotethatpercentagesofallocatedVMemaremeasuredagainstwhicheveristhelessof:TheVMemlimit (ifset)ortheallocatedVMemcapacity.Thisisalsotrueinreportsandrecommendedactions.For example,assumeaVMwithallocatedVMemof8GB,butalimitof4GB.Inthiscase,thepercentageina chartshowsthepercentageutilizedof4GB. VirtualstorageallocatedonaVM,measuredinKbytes.ChartsshowthepercentageofaVMsallocated VStoragethatisinuse.
VCPU VMem
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TheOperationsManagerUser Interface
TouseOperationsManager,youopenawebbrowsertotheIPaddressofyourproductinstallation.OperationsMan agerservestheuserinterfacetoyourbrowser,whereyoucanobserve,analyze,andmanageyourenvironment.The followingfigureshowstheuserinterfaceopenedtotheDashboardsview.
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TheOperationsManagerUserInterfaceDashboardsView
Thissectiondescribesthedifferentcomponentsoftheuserinterface,includingthefollowing: MenuBaronpage 31 ToolBarandDisplayToolsonpage 32 FlyoutPanelsonpage 33 NotificationsBaronpage 37 StandardPanelControlsonpage 38 InformationPanelsonpage 44 UtilizationHistoryonpage 50
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MenuBar
MenuBar
OperationsManagerpresentsviewsforthedifferentactivitiesyoucanperform.Themenubaratthetopoftheappli cationwindowincludesbuttonsyouclicktodisplaytheseviews.OperationsManagerprovidesthefollowingviews: TheDashboardsViewonpage 64Seedashboardsthatfocuson: Assuringserviceperformance Maintainingefficientallocationofresources Projectingfutureresourcerequirementsforclusters Trendingenvironmentstatusoverthelastmonth TheWorkloadViewonpage 86Seechartsthatshowthecurrentworkloaddistributioncomparedtothemost desirableworkloaddistribution TheDeployViewonpage 93UseOperationsManagertodeploynewVMsinyourenvironment,while maintainingtheenvironmentwithintheOptimalOperatingZone ThePlanViewonpage 99Runwhatifscenariostoinvestigatehowtochangeyourinfrastructuretoachieve optimalperformance TheOptimizeViewonpage 146Seesidebysidechartsofthecurrentenvironmentcomparedwiththeoptimal environment.IncludesaToDolistofactionsyoucanperform. TheInventoryViewonpage 151Seerealtimeandhistoricalinformationaboutthevariousresources,services, andcomponentsinyourenvironment TheAdminViewonpage 197AttachOperationsManagertospecifichypervisors,createuseraccounts,specify dataretentionpolicies,andperformothermaintenanceactivities ThePolicyViewonpage 234Definegroupsandmakesettingstodefineworkloadplacement,analysis,and otherpolicies
Youcanalsoopenviewstoshowinformationaboutspecificcomponents.Forexample,whenyousearchforaspecific virtualmachine(seeSearchinToolBarandDisplayToolsonpage 32),OperationsManageropensanewviewforthat VM.ThatviewincludesanavigationpanelandinformationpanelsthatlistonlyinformationaboutthegivenVM. Whenyouarethroughwiththiskindofview,clicktheviewbuttonscloseboxtodiscardit. Youcanchoosewhichbuttonstoincludeonthemenubar,andOperationsManagerwillsaveyourchangeswithyour useraccount.Ifyouremovebuttonsfromthemenubar,youcanaddthembackagainatanytime.
Deleting,Adding,andArrangingMenuButtons
Todeleteabuttonfromthemenubar,clickthecloseboxinthebuttonsupperrightcorner.
Toaddabuttontothemenubar,clicktheproductlogoatthetopleftoftheapplicationwindow,thendragbuttons fromthemenupaneltothemenubar.Tochangetheorderofbuttonsinthemenubar,dragthemtothepositionyou want.
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ToolBarandDisplayTools
TheOperationsManagertoolbarprovidesthefollowing: Reports ThereportstoolopensanewwebpagethatpresentsalltheReportsthataredefinedforyourinstallationof OperationsManager.ItgeneratesreportsinPDFthatyoucanvieworsendtospecificemailaddresses.Youcan alsosavereportsintheMicrosoftExcelXMLformat.OperationsManagerpresentsastandardsetofreports,and youcanalsodefinecustomreports. ReportsarenotavailableuntilOperationsManagerhasbeenrunningfor24hours. Search Thesearchtoolopensadialogboxyoucanusetosearchforcomponentsorservicesbyname.Asyoutypea SearchExpression,thedialogboxlistsalltheitemsthatmatchyourstring.WhenyouselectanitemandclickOK, OperationsManageropensanewviewtoshowinformationaboutthatitem.Youcanselectmultipleitems.Use ShiftClicktoextendtheselection,oruseCtrlClicktoselectdiscontinuousitems.
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FlyoutPanels
HelpMenu Thismenuprovidesaccessto: QuickHelpDescriptionsofvariouspanelsinOperationsManager,thatoverlaythepanelcontent. UserGuideTheOperationsManagerdocumentation. SupportCenterThiscommandopenstheSupportCenterwebsite. AboutOperationsManagerversioninformation Logout UsethistooltologoutofyourOperationsManagersession. Collapse ThisbuttoncollapsesalltheentriesintheNavigationpanel. Refresh TheRefreshbuttoncausesOperationsManagertoupdatethedataitdisplays. AutoRefresh SpecifiesregularupdateperiodsforOperationsManager.SpecifytheRefreshIntervalinseconds.Forexample,to autorefresheverytenminutes,enter600.
TheDisplaytoolsspecifythefollowing:
FlyoutPanels
MostoftheviewsinOperationsManagerincludeaflyoutpanelthatdisplaysnavigationtrees,listsofgroups,orlists offeaturestheviewsupports. TheDashboardsviewincludesaflyoutpanelthatlistsavailabledashboards,aswellascontrolstocreateordelete customdashboards.TheInventoryandOptimizeviewsincludeflyoutpanelsthatshowhierarchicaltreesof resources,services,andcomponentsinyourenvironment. Forexample,thefollowingfigureshowstheflyoutpanelfortheInventoryview.
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FlyoutPanelfortheInventoryView
ThisfigureshowstheInventorytree,andabuttontoopentheGroupstree.Youcannavigatethesetreestoseewhat eachitemcontains.TheInventorytreeshowsahierarchyofitemsinyourenvironment.Whenyouselectanitem,the informationpanelsontherightdisplaydataabouttheselecteditem.
SettingFlyoutPanelLocation
Bydefault,thenavigationpanelsopenontheleftsideoftheview.Youcandragapaneltoplaceitanywhereinthe view,andyoucandragthebottomrightcornertoresizeit.Youcanalsopinanavigationpaneltoattachittotheview.
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FlyoutPanels
PinnedNavigationPanel
BrowsingDisabled
Insomecircumstances,theitemyouwanttoexpandinthetreecontainsmorethan500items.Tokeepfromtyingup theGUIindisplayingaverylargetreenode,OperationsManagerdisablesthedisplayofthattreenode.Whenyou openthetreenode,itdisplaysthestatement,BrowsingDisabled.
NavigationTreeHierarchies
ThenavigationtreeshowsthehierarchyofservicesandcommoditiesOperationsManagerhasdiscoveredinyour environment.TheInventorytreegroupstheseaccordingtothesupplychainVirtualApplications,Applications,Vir tualMachines,PhysicalMachines,Storage,etc.TheGroupstreedisplaystheitemsingroupsdefinedbyOperations Manager,aswellasothergroupsthatyoudefine. Atreebranchforagivenservice(anamedVMornamedstorage,forexample)canincludethefollowing: ComposedOfTheconstituentpartsthatmakeuptheservice;forexample,aphysicalmachinemightinclude fourCPUsintheComposedOflist,butonlyshowoneProcessorentryintheCommoditieslist. ConsumesTheserviceprovidingcommoditiesthattheparentserviceconsumes;forexample,aVMconsumes aHostandadatastore HostsForaphysicalmachine,theVMshostedonthatPM.
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Forexample,thefollowingfigureshowsaselectedvirtualmachinenamedDFTest.Theinformationpanelshowsthe propertiesofthisVMsvirtualCPU.
InventoryTreeShowinganOfferedCommodity
ResourceIcons
TheNavigationPaneldisplaysiconsforthedifferentresourcesOperationsManagerhandles.Theseiconsindicate: Resourcetype Hypervisortype ResourceState
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NotificationsBar
ResourceType
VirtualApplication Application VM PM Storage DiskArray StorageController IOModule Datacenter ProviderVirtual Cloud Organization VirtualCloud
HypervisorType
MicrosoftHyperV VMWareVCenter XenServer VMWareVirtualCloud Director
ResourceState
Normal Maintenance Suspended PoweredOff FailoverHost(forHA)
NotificationsBar
OperationsManagergeneratesnotificationstoalertyouwheneventsoccurthataffecttheoperationoftheOpera tionsManagerserver.Forexample,ifatargethypervisorlosesconnectivity,orifothernetworkproblemsoccur,you needtotroubleshoottheissueandresolveitsoOperationsManagercancontinuetomanageyourworkload.Youcan reviewthesenotificationstoseewhethersuchproblemshaveoccurred. Note:DonotconfusethesenotificationswithrecommendedactionsintheToDolist,ortheirassociatedrisksand opportunities.Thenotificationsdescribedinthistopicdonotrepresentthehealthofyourvirtualenvironment.They pertaintotheconnectivitybetweenyourtargethypervisorsandOperationsManager,ortootheroperationaldetails, suchaswhetheryourtargethypervisorshavethepropertoolsinstalled. TheOperationsManagerGUIdisplaysanotificationsbaratthebottomrightofthewindow.Thisbarliststhenumber ofnotificationsthatarecurrentlyactive.Italsodisplaysthecolorofthemostseverenotificationthatisactive.
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NotificationBarandNotificationLog
Todisplaythenotificationlog,clickaniconinthenotificationbar.
StandardPanelControls
Chartpanelsincludeanumberofcontrolsyoucanusetodisplaymoredetails,ortocustomizehowthechartsshow data.Thesecontrolsinclude: Tooltipsonpage 39 ChartLegendPulldownsonpage 39 ChartDisplayRadioButtonsonpage 40 Maximize/Minimizeonpage 41 ExporttoXMLonpage 41 CustomizeHeatmaponpage 41 ChartDateRangesonpage 43
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Tooltips
Toshowextradetailsaboutanitemintheinformationpanels,hoverthepointerovertheitemuntilatooltipappears. Thetooltipdisplaysextrainformationsuchastheactualvalueofadatapointortheresourceitischarting. Mostlistsandtablesdisplaytooltips.Ifadatafieldinalistortableisnotlargeenough,usethetooltiptodisplaythe completeinformation. MostbuttonsandothercontrolsintheGUIalsodisplaytooltipsthatprovideabriefdescriptionoftheactionthatcon trolwillperform.
DisplayingaTooltip
ChartLegendPulldowns
Tosavespace,manychartsshowtheirlegendsonapulldown.
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DisplayingaPulldownLegend
ChartDisplayRadioButtons
Manychartsincluderadiobuttonsyoucanusetodeterminewhichmetricstoplot.Ifthechartpanelistosmalltodis playalltheradiobuttons,youcanscrollthemtotheleftorright.
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Maximize/Minimize
InformationpanelsincludeMaximizeandMinimizeicons( )youcanclicktoshoworhidethepanels,orto expandthemtoafullview.Asyouminimizepanels,theremainingpanelsexpandtofillintheinformationdisplay area.
ExporttoXML
ManypanelshaveanExporttoXMLicon( ).Thesepanelsdisplaydatathatcanberepresentedinatableorspread sheet.Whenyouclicktheicon,youcannavigatetoadirectoryandexportthepaneldatatoanXMLfile.Youcanthen openthatXMLinaspreadsheet.
CustomizeHeatmap
Heatmappanelsincludeacustomizeicon( )tospecifywhichcolumnstoshow,andthescopeofthechart.When youclicktheicon,thepaneldisplaystheCustomizecontrolboard,withColumnsandScopeaccordionstodisplaythe specificcontrols.
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ChoosingtheColumnstoDisplay
Whenyousetthescopeofapanel,youlimitthenumberofresourcesitwilldisplay.Thisreducesthenumberofrows thatwilldisplayinthepanel.
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SettingPanelScope
Note:Torestoredefaultscope,opentheCustomizepanelandchooseReset.
ChartDateRanges
Barchartpanelsincludesliderstospecifythedateordaterangeforthedata.Youcanshowthecurrentdataorshow datafromapreviouspointintime.
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ControllingaPanelsDisplay
InformationPanels
Asyouselectadashboardoraniteminthenavigationpanel,youcanseeinformationaboutthatiteminpanelstothe right.Thesepanelsshowdifferentchartsandlistingsofproperties,dependingontheitemyouselect. Thepanelshavestandardcontrolsyoucanusetomodifytheirdisplay(seeStandardPanelControlsonpage 38).
SummaryPanels
IntheInventoryview,theInventorytreebeginswithaSummaryentry.Whenyouselectthisentry,OperationsMan agershowssummaryinformationaboutyourenvironment.TheinformationdisplaysinSummarypanelsforApplica tions,VMs,PhysicalMachines,andStorage.ThefollowingfigureshowsaVMsummarypanel.
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InformationPanels
PanelsShowingtheStorageSummary
Thesummarypaneldisplaysaheatmapwithcoloredcellstoshowutilizationofresources,aswellastheUtilization Index.Bydefault,heatmapsonlyshowtheUtilizationIndex,butyoucancustomizethemtoshowothervalues(see CustomizeHeatmaponpage 41).Togetmoredetailsaboutanitem,clickonthecoloredentry.Thefigureabove showsthedetailspanelforutilizationonaclusterofvirtualmachines. ClickinganamedentryintheSummarypanelopensanewviewforthatnameditem.Whenyouarefinishedwiththis view,discarditbyclickingtheviewbuttonsclosebox.
UtilizationCharts
WhenyouselectanamedserviceorgroupintheInventorytree,OperationsManagerdisplayspanelsforthatitem. OneofthepanelsistheUtilizationChart.Thischartshowsutilizationpercentageandutilizationindexfortheselected item.Iftheitemrepresentsagroupofresources,thepaneldisplaysabarchartshowingutilizationvaluesforeach resource.Toshowutilizationhistoryofasingleservice,clickthecorrespondingbarinthechart. Note:Thedefaultuserinterfaceshowsuptoonehoursworthofdata.Youcaninstalllicensestoenablethedisplayof morehistoricaldata. Thefollowingfigureshowsutilizationforthedatastoresinthecurrentenvironment.Italsoshowsthelatencyofasin gledatastore.Youcanhoveroveradatapointtodisplayitstooltip,orclickthedatapointtodisplayachart.
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PanelsShowingtheUtilization
DashboardPanels
IntheDashboardsview,youselectthedashboardyouwant,andOperationsManagerdisplayssystemdatainthe associateddashboardpanels.ThesepanelsincludeaToDolist,variouscharts,andexpandingtables.
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InformationPanels
DeviceCharts
ExpandingTable
Somedashboardchartsincludetheoptiontochoosewhichtypeofdevicetoplot.Choosethetypefromthedrop downmenu.
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ExpandingTables
ExpandingTable
Somedashboardtablesincludeitemsthatexpandtoshowmoredata.Youcanquicklybrowsetotheitemyouwantto inspect,thenexpandittoseemoreinformation.Often,youcanclickthemainentrytoopenawindowthatshows chartsanddetailsforthatitem.
ShowToporBottomItemsinChart
Foranenvironmentwithalargeinventory,itsnotpracticaltocharteverydeviceinasinglepanel.Forthisreason,bar chartsanddatagridsaredesignedtoshowthetoporbottomitemsinthegivenlist,sortedbythevaluesofagiven commodity.Forexample,asummarychartofVMscanshowthetop30VMs,sortedbyUsabilityIndex(UI)orVMem consumption. Forthesecharts,youcanspecify: Whethertoshowthetoporbottomitems Whatcommoditiestoshowinthechart Whichcommoditytosortbywhenshowingthetoporbottomitems
Forchartsthatshowmultiplecommoditiespercharteddevice(multiplebarsforeachVM,forexample),youspecify thesesettingsinaCustomizeChartdialogbox.
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InformationPanels
Forchartsthatshowonlyonecommodityatatime,youmakethesesettingsdirectlyonthechart.
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SortingofComparisonCharts
AnumberofchartsinOperationsManagercomparethecurrentstateofyourenvironmentwithatargetstate.These comparisonchartssortaccordingtothevaluesinthetarget.Youcanfindcomparisonchartsinthe: ProjectedImprovementschartoftheAssureServicePerformancedashboard(seeProjectedImprovementson page 68) PlansummarychartsinthePlanview(seeThePlanViewonpage 99) Optimizeview(seeTheOptimizeViewonpage 146)
UtilizationHistory
WhenyouselectanentryforaspecificdeviceintheInventorytreeorGroupstree,thecorrespondingUtilization paneldisplaysmetricsforthatdevice.Bydefault,thepaneldisplaysmetricsforthelasttwohours.Dependingonthe licenseyouhaveinstalled,youcanviewupto48daysofdatainthispanel.
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UtilizationHistory
ViewinghistoricaldataintheUtilizationchart
Youdragaslidertosettherangetoview.NotethatOperationsManagerhastohavebeenrunninglongenoughtodis playtherangeofdatayouwant.Forexample,ifithasonlybeenrunningfor30days,youcannotviewmorethan30 daysofdata.
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Beforeproblemsoccur,OperationsManageridentifiesactionsyoucantaketoavoidproblems.Bycontinuallyper formingtheseactions,youcankeepyourvirtualenvironmentrunningwithintheoptimaloperatingzone.Youcanper formtheseactionsmanually,directOperationsManagertoperformtheactionsoncommand,ordirectOperations Managertoperformactionsautomaticallyastheyarise. Toshowyoutheactionsitrecommends,theOperationsManageruserinterfaceincludesToDolistsinmostofthe views.TheToDopanelincludesoneviewtolisttheactions,andanotherviewtolisttherisksandefficiencyopportu nitiesthoseactionsaddress. SomeviewsincludeaNavigationtree.AsyouselectitemsintheNavigationtree,theToDolistfocusesontheitems youselect.
ToDoPanel
Note:Forverylonglistsofentries,theToDopanelusespagingtolimitthenumberofentriesitloadsupanddisplays atonetime.Topageforwardorback,clickthe<<and>>buttonsorthepagenumbersatthebottomleftofthepanel. TheToDopanelswitchesbetweenanActionLog(listingrecommendedactions)andalogofopportunitiesandrisks. Thepanelincludesthefollowingtogglebuttonstochangeitsviews.Clickthesebuttonstoswitchfromoneviewto theother:
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ViewingRecommendedActions
TheToDolistshowstheactionsOperationsManagerrecommends.Itcanperformmanyoftheseactions,butother actions(suchasinstallingmorememoryinaphysicalmachine)arerecommendationsthatanoperatormustperform. Withthislistyoucan: Filtertheactionsbycategory,severity,orstringmatch Selectoneormoreactionstoperform DirectOperationsManagertoperformtheactions ViewtheprogressofeachactionasOperationsManagerperformsit Seerisksorefficiencyopportunitiesastheyarise Openupdetailedviewsoftheissues,includingassociatedchartsandrecommendedactions ViewingRecommendedActionsonpage 53 ExecutingRecommendedActionsonpage 54 ViewingRisksandEfficiencyOpportunitiesonpage 56 ActionCategoriesonpage 58 ExamplesofRisksandActionsonpage 60
TheRisks/Opportunitiesloggivesyouadetailedviewofthehealthofyourenvironment.Withthislogyoucan:
ThefollowingsectionsdescribehowtoworkwithToDolists:
ViewingRecommendedActions
TheToDolistshowsactionsthatOperationsManagerrecommendsforyoutoachieveoptimalperformanceinyour environment.ForviewsthatincludeaNavigationPanel,thelistupdatestoshowactionsfornavigationitemsyou select.Forexample,ifyouselectSummaryintheInventorytree,thepanelshowsactionsforthewholeenvironment. Thenifyouselectasinglephysicalmachine,thepanelupdatestoshowonlytheactionsidentifiedforthatmachine. TheRecommendedActionslistincludesthefollowinginformation: ToDo:Theshortnameoftheactiontoperform;forexample,aMoveorResizeaction(hovertodisplaythelong descriptioninatooltip) Target:Theresourcethatwillbechanged;forexample,theVMtomove From:Theresourcethatcontainsthetarget(thePMthathoststheVM),ortheresourcetobemodified(the memorytoberesized) To:Theresultingresource;forexample,thePMthatwillhostthemovedVM,orthenewmemorycapacity Risk/Opportunity:Theriskoropportunitythatjustifiestheaction Status:Recommended,Pending,orotherstatesforthisaction Category:SeeActionCategoriesonpage 58forfulldescriptions
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RecommendedActions
YoucanalsoviewtherecommendedactionsforindividualentitiesonaSummarypanel.Toviewtherecommended actions,clicktheitemsriskicon.Thisviewshowsonlytherecommendedactionsforthegivenentity.Forexample,if youclickaVMriskiconthelistshowsonlytheactionsthatcanbeperformedonthehostPM.
ProblemsandRecommendedActionsintheSummaryView
ExecutingRecommendedActions
TheToDolistshowsactionsthatOperationsManagerrecommends.Byperformingtheseactions,youcankeepyour environmentwithintheoptimaloperatingzone.
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Note:TheToDoListcanshowalargenumberofactions,manyofwhichsharethesamesourceanddestination.When performingactions,youshouldalwaysclicktheShowTopradiobuttontolimitthelistofactions.Thesetop10actions donotsharethesamesourceordestination,anditissafetoperformtheseactionsallatonce. Youcanexecuteactionsinthefollowingways: Automatically OperationsManagerperformstheactionsasitrecommendsthem.Youdontneedtodoanythingtoperform theseactions. Manually,throughOperationsManager OperationsManagershowstheactionsintheToDolist,withactivecheckboxesyoucanselect.Youselectthe actionstoperform,andthenclickApply. Externally,outsideofOperationsManager OperationsManagerrecommendstheaction,butcannotexecuteit.EitheranOperationsManagerpolicy specifiesthattheactioncannotbeexecuted,orthereisnowayforOperationsManagertodirectthehypervisor toperformtheaction.Forexample,thereisnowayforOperationsManageraddmorememorytoaphysical machine.YouexecutetheseactionsoutsideofOperationsManager.
Inaddition,youcancreatepoliciesthatcompletelydisablecertainactions.Inthatcase,OperationsManagernever showstheactionintheToDolist. YoucanspecifyactionpoliciesformostoftheentitytypesthatareincludedintheOperationsManagersupplychain. Thesepoliciesdeterminehowtoexecuteeachaction.Youcanspecifyglobalpoliciesforallentitiesofeachtype,and youcanalsospecifypoliciesforspecificgroupsofentities.Formoreinformation,seeActionModesonpage 254.
Toexecuteactions,selectthemintheToDolist,andclickApply.Intheillustrationabove: ClickingApplydirectsOperationsManagertoexecutetheMoveaction AnyactionsthatweresettoAutomaticinthepolicieshavealreadybeenexecutedbyOperationsManager
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ViewingRisksandEfficiencyOpportunities
OperationsManagerlogseventsforrisksandopportunitiesthatariseinyourcurrentenvironment.Youcanthinkof risksandopportunitiesasjustificationsforactionsintheToDolist.Thelogshowsiconsforseverityforagivenrisk oropportunity,theseveritycanbe: CriticalTheseaffecttheQOSthatyourenvironmentcandeliver,andyouarestronglyadvisedtoaddressthem MajorThesecanaffectQOSandshouldbeaddressed MinorTheseaffectcostorworkloaddistribution,buttheydonotimpacttheQOSyouruserswillexperience
RecommendedActions
Inthisfigureyoucanseemajorandminorrisksandopportunities.Ifyoucantseethefulltextofatablecell,hover overthatcelltodisplaythetextinatooltip. YoucanchoosetofilterthelistingsbyTop10: SeverityTheimpact(toseetheimpactvalueforanitem,hoverovertheSeverityicon) DurationHowlongtheitemhasbeenactive CountHowoftenthesameriskoropportunityhasoccurred
IfyouclicktheDetailsbuttonforalogentry,OperationsManageropensanewviewthatprovidesafullsummaryof theaffectedhostmachine. IfyouclicktheSeverityicon,OperationsManagerdisplaysapanelthatshowsrecommendedactions,andachartof detailsrelatedtotheproblem.
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ProblemResolutionsPanel
ViewingRisksandOpportunitiesfromtheInventoryView
OntheInventoryview,youcanviewasummaryofallthedevicesinyourenvironment.Thisviewshowssummarypan elsforapplications,VMs,PMs,anddatastores.Thesepanelsdisplayseverityiconsnexttoeachentityinthepanel eachiconcorrespondstotheworstcaseseverityforanyrisksonthatdevice.YoucanclicktheseiconstoopenaRisks/ Opportunitieslogforthatdevice.
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ProblemsintheSummaryView
ActionCategories
OperationsManagerorganizesentriesintheToDologintodifferentcategories.Thesecategoriesdonotstrictlydefine theseverityofanissue,buttheyindicatethenatureoftheissue.
Prevention
OperationsManagerconstantlymonitorsconditions,andworkstokeepyourenvironmentrunningintheoptimal operatingzone.Asitfindsissuesthatriskmovingtheenvironmentoutofthiszone,itplacestheseissuesinthePre ventioncategory.Youshouldattendtotheseissues,andperformtheassociatedactions.Ifyoudonot,theenviron mentmaydriftoutoftheoperatingzone,andtheQoSforsomeservicesmaybeputatrisk.
Actions
MoveVM StartVMorPM
Risks/Opportunities
<Resource>Congestion HighresourceutilizationonthenamedVM,host,ordatastore.Forexample,CPU congestionorMemorycongestioncanoccuronaVMorphysicalmachine.Excesslatency onadatastream.Forexample,anIOPsbottleneckcanoccuronadatastore. WorkloadBalancing ExcessworkloadonagivenphysicalmachinethatcanbeaddressedbymovingaVMto anotherhost.
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ActionCategories
PerformanceAssurance
Ultimately,thereasontokeepyourenvironmentrunningwithintheoptimaloperatingzoneistoassureperformance andmeetQoSgoals.WhenOperationsManagerdetectsconditionsthatdirectlyputQoSatrisk,itplacestheassoci atedactionsandrisksinthePerformanceAssurancecategory.Youcanconsiderthesecriticalconditions,andyou shouldexecutetherecommendedactionsassoonaspossible.
Actions
Connectanewapplication (tovirtualapplication server) ProvisionanewVM,PM, Datastore IncreasenumberofVCPUs DecreasenumberofVCPUs Increaseresource Reduceresource
Risks/Opportunities
<Resource>Congestion Highutilizationofapplicationmanagedbyaloadbalancer.Highutilizationofresourceson VM,PM,ordatastore.
Compliance
Avirtualenvironmentcanincludepoliciesthatlimitworkloadplacementoravailabilityofresources.Itspossiblethat theenvironmentconfigurationviolatesthesedefinedpolicies.Itsalsopossiblethatanentityismisconfiguredin someway.Forexample,aVMmightbeconfiguredtoaccessanetworkthatisnotavailableinitscurrentcluster.In suchcases,OperationsManageridentifiestheviolationandrecommendsactionsthatbringtheentitybackintocom pliance.
Actions
MoveVM ProvisionVM,PM, Datastore,Network
Risks/Opportunities
PlacementViolation TheplacementofaVMisinviolationofanOperationsManagerpolicyoranimported PlacementPolicy. Misconfiguration Theconfigurationviolatesdiscoveredrequirements.Forexample,aVMisconfiguredto accessanetworkthatisnotavailablefromthecurrentcluster.
EfficiencyImprovement
Efficientutilizationofresourcesisanimportantpartofrunningintheoptimaloperatingzone.Runningefficiently maximizesyourinvestmentinhardwareandreducescost.WhenOperationsManagerdiscoversunderutilized resources,itrecommendsactionstoconsolidateyouroperations.Forexample,itcanrecommendthatyoumovecer tainVMsontoadifferenthost.Thiscanfreeaphysicalmachinetobeshutdown. TherearetimeswhenOperationsManagersuspendsaVMinordertofreeupresourcesforacriticalapplication. Whenthoseresourcesarenolongerstressedbythecriticalapplication,OperationsManagercanrestartthesus pendedVM.Thisisaspecialtypeofefficiencyimprovementratherthanconsolidatingworkloadandshuttingdown unusedmachines,thisactionrestartsasuspendedVMtoincreaseresourceutilizationandprovidemoreservices.
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Actions
DisconnectVirtualApp MoveVM SuspendVM DeleteVM TerminateVM Reduceresource RestartsuspendedVM
Risks/Opportunities
Overprovisioning ExcessresourcecapacityinaPMordatastore.
ExamplesofRisksandActions
FollowingaresometypesoftherisksandefficiencyopportunitiesOperationsManagercanidentify,andactionsitcan recommendtooptimizeyoursystemdeployment.
CriticalOverUtilization
Wheneveranysystemresourcereachescriticalutilization,yourinfrastructurecanexperiencebottlenecks.Applica tionsrunningonVMsthatarehostedbycriticallyoverutilizedmachineswillshowperformanceproblems,andso yourQoSmaysuffer. Theresourcesthatcanbeaffectedare: Memory CPU IO Networkutilization CPUReadyQueues Datastorage MoveVMsfromtheaffectedhosttoahostwithlessutilization.OperationsManagercanperformthisaction automatically. Startorprovisionanewhostmachine.Youmustperformthisactionmanually. Provisionanewdatastore.Youmustperformthisactionmanually.
PossibleResolutions:
LowUtilization
Underutilizationpresentsanopportunitytoincreaseefficiency,becauseitresultsinhighercoststomaintainexces sivehardware. Theresourcesthatcanbeaffectedare: Memory
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ExamplesofRisksandActions
CPU IO Networkutilization CPUReadyQueues MoveVMsfromanunderutilizedhosttoanotherhost.OperationsManagercanperformthisaction automatically. Suspendtheunderutilizedhost.OperationsManagercanperformthisactionautomatically.
MisconfiguredVMs
BottleneckscanarisewhenaVMisnotconfiguredwithenoughvirtualprocessingpowertosupportitsapplications. Theresourcesthatcanbeaffectedare: NumberofVCPUsinavirtualmachine ReconfiguretheaffectedVM.Youmustperformthisactionmanually. PossibleResolutions:
MisconfiguredInfrastructure
OperationsManagercanidentifygeneralconfigurationproblemsinyourinfrastructure.Theseproblemscanresultin poorQOS,eventhoughnoneofthehostsshowoverutilizationproblems. Theresourcesthatcanbeaffectedareconfigurationof: Network Cluster Storage Reconfiguretheaffectedinfrastructureresource.Youmustperformtheseactionsmanually.
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LoggingIntoOperationsManager
Togetstarted,youopenawebbrowsertoyourOperationsManagerinstallation.OperationsManagerservestheuser interfacetoyourbrowser,whereyoucanuseittoobserveyourenvironment.Inthisway,youcanaccesstheunique capabilitiesofOperationsManagerfromanyinternetconnection.Beforeyoucanlogin,aninstanceofOperations Managermustbeinstalledinyourenvironment.TogetanOperationsManagerinstallationpackage,contactVMTurbo youcanregisteronlineathttp://www.vmturbo.com. TologintoOperationsManager: 1. NavigateyourWebbrowsertotheOperationsManagerinstallation FortheURL,providetheIPaddressormachinenamefortheinstallation.ThisURLopenstheVMTurboOperations ManagerLoginpage.YoushouldbookmarkthisURLforfutureuse.
LoginScreen
2. Providetheusernameandpasswordforyouraccount Yoursystemadministratorcreatesuseraccounts.Contactyoursystemadministratorforlogininformation. Afteryoulogin,thebrowseropenstotheTheDashboardsViewonpage 64.Thisviewdisplaysinformationabout yourvirtualenvironment. Todisplaythisinformation,OperationsManagercommunicateswithtargetplatformssuchashypervisors,loadbal ancers,andcloudstacks.NotethatyourOperationsManageradministratorsetsupthetargetconfiguration.Formore information,seeTargetConfigurationonpage 205.
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HostRequirementsandSupportedTargets
HostRequirementsandSupportedTargets
ThefollowingsectionslisttherequirementstohosttheOperationsManagerappliance,andtheserversthatOpera tionsManagercanconnecttoastargets.
MinimumHostingRequirements
OperationsManagerrunsonhoststhatmeetthefollowingrequirements:
SupportedHypervisorTechnology
VMware: vCenterversions3.5,4,or5.xrunningwithESX 3.x,4,x,or5.x Citrix: XenServerversions5.6.xand6.x Microsoft: HyperVasbundledwithWindows2008R2,or HyperVServer2012 RedHatEnterpriseVirtualization: RHEV3.0and3.1
StorageRequirements
32GB16GBdiskstorageplus matchingswapspace 20GB16GBdiskstorage 20GB16GBdiskstorage
Memory
16GB
CPUs
2vCPUs4 vCPUspreferred 2vCPUs4 vCPUspreferred 2vCPUs4 vCPUspreferred 2vCPUs4 vCPUspreferred
16GB 16GB
20GB16GBdiskstorage
16GB
SupportedOperationsManagerTargets
OperationsManagercanconnectwithandoperateonthefollowingtargetservers: Hypervisors VMwarevCenter4.15.1 RHEVM(RedHatEnterpriseVirtualizationManager)versions3.0and3.1 MicrosoftHyperV2008and2012 CitrixXenServer5.66.1 CloudManagers VMwarevCloudDirector1.05.1 CloudStack3.0.2and3.0.6 LoadBalancers CitrixNetScaler StorageControllers NetAppStorageSystemsstoragecontrollersrunningDataONTAPversion8orlater ComputingFabrics CiscoUCS OperationsManager3.3orhigher AssignOperationsManagerappliancesastargetstoconfigureanaggregatedinstallation.
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TheDashboardsView
TheDashboardsViewgivesyouviewsofyourenvironmentsoveralloperatinghealth. AtaglancetheDashboardsviewgivesyouinsightsintoserviceperformancehealth,overallefficiencyofyourwork loaddistribution,projectionsintothefuture,andtrendsoverthelastmonth.Thedashboardsshowyouwhetheryour environmentisstayingwithintheoptimalzone,whatactionsyoucantaketoreturntotheoptimalzone,andthetar getoperatingconditionsthatyouwouldseeifyouacceptedtherecommendedactions.
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GeneratingReportsFromtheDashboardView
WhenusingtheDashboardsview,youcanviewStandardDashboardsonpage 65,andyoucanalsocreateandview CustomDashboardsonpage 84.
GeneratingReportsFromtheDashboardView
YoucanexportthecurrentdashboardviewtoaPDFreport.Thesereportscaptureasnapshotofthecurrentdash board,whichyoucansaveforlaterreview,orsendtointerestedparties.Notethatyoucanselectstandardorcustom dashboards,andyoucansetthedashboardscopebeforeexportingtoPDF.
ExportingPDFfortheImproveOverallEfficiencydashboard
StandardDashboards
OperationsManagershipswiththefollowingstandarddashboards: AssureServicePerformanceonpage 66Showsenvironmenthealth,focusingonactionsyoucanexecuteto assureperformanceandQoS. ImproveOverallEfficiencyonpage 71Showshowyoucanconsolidateservicesandutilizephysicalresources moreefficiently. ProjectClusterResourcesonpage 75Basedonhistoricalworkloaddata,projectsthefuturecapacity requirementsfordifferentclustersinyourenvironment. MonthlySummaryonpage 79Basedonhistoricaldata,showsthetrendforworkloaddistributionand utilizationofresourcessuchasmemoryandstoragespace.
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TheDashboardsView
ViewingStandardDashboards
Toswitchbetweendashboards,opentheDashboardsflyoutpanelandchoosetheoneyouwantfromtheDash boardslist. Youcansetthescopeofastandarddashboardwhileyoureviewingit.Forexample,youcanfocusadashboardona specificcluster.Thislimitsthedashboardtoonlydisplaydataforthatcluster. Afteryousetthescope,youcansaveitasacustomdashboard(seeCustomDashboardsonpage 84).Youcanset scopeonthefollowingdashboards: AssureServicePerformance ImproveOverallEfficiency MonthlySummary(PhysicalMachineClusters,only) )intheflyoutpanelandchoosetheclusteror
Tosetthescopeofaselecteddashboard,clicktheScopebutton( groupyouwant. Atanytime,youcanclicktheResetScopebutton( dashboard.
)intheflyoutpanel.Thisreturnstothedefaultscopeforthe
AssureServicePerformance
Thisdashboardillustrateshowtoassureworkloadshavetheresourcestheyneedtoperformwell.Usethisdashboard topreventperformancedegradation. Youcanusethisdashboardtoinspecttheworkloadandutilizationofresourcesonhostsandondatastores.Youcan seehowVMsutilizeresourcesandwhatactionsyoucantaketoachieveanoptimalworkloaddistribution.Ifutiliza tionlevelspresentriskstothefinalQoSforendusers,thisdashboardpointsouttherisksandgivesyoualistof actionsyoucantaketocorrectthesituationbeforeanyproblemsarise. Thedashboarddisplaysthisinformationinthefollowingpanels:
ToDo
Thispaneldisplaysactionsyoucanexecutetomaintainoptimaloperatingconditions.Youcantogglethepanel betweenaToDolistandalistofcurrentriskstoserviceperformance.(ForacompletedescriptionofToDopanels,see ToDoListsMaintainingQoSonpage 52.)
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StandardDashboards
TheToDolistshowsactionsthatyoucanexecuteinthefollowingways: AutomaticallyOperationsManagerperformstheactionsasitrecommendsthem.Youdontneedtodoanything toperformtheseactions. Manually,throughOperationsManagerOperationsManagershowstheactionsintheToDolist,withactivecheck boxesyoucanselect.Youselecttheactionstoperform,andthenclickApply. Externally,outsideofOperationsManagerOperationsManagerrecommendstheaction,butcannotexecuteit. EitheranOperationsManagerpolicyspecifiesthattheactioncannotbeexecuted,orthereisnowayfor OperationsManagertodirectthehypervisortoperformtheaction.Forexample,thereisnowayforOperations Manageraddmorememorytoaphysicalmachine.YouexecutetheseactionsoutsideofOperationsManager.
Note:YoucanspecifyactionpoliciesforVMs,hosts,storagedevices,andcloudstacks.Thesepoliciesdeterminehow toexecuteeachaction.Youcanspecifyglobalpoliciesforallentitiesofeachtype,andyoucanalsospecifypoliciesfor specificgroupsofentities.Formoreinformation,seeActionModesonpage 254.
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Health
TheHealthchartshowsthecurrentstatusofthephysicalmachinesinyourenvironment.Youcanchoosetocharthost machinesorstorage.Thepiechartshowsthestatusofyourphysicaldevices.Youcanclickthecharttoopenaheat mapthatliststhestatusofeachphysicaldevice.
ProjectedImprovements
TheProjectedImprovementschartshowsthecurrentstateofyourenvironment,comparedtothetargetresultsyou wouldachieveifyouexecutedalltherecommendedactionsintheToDolist.Thebarsshowthecurrentstate,andthe linechartshowsthetargetresults.Youcansetthecharttoshowdataforthehostsordatastoresinyourenvironment.
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StandardDashboards
Whenchartinghosts,youcanselectthefollowingmetricstoshowinthechart: UITheUtilizationIndex,ameasureoftheoverallutilizationofresourcesonthehost MemThepercentageofthehostsmemorycapacitythatisutilized,measuredinKbytes CPUThepercentageofthehostsCPUcapacitythatisutilized,measuredinMHz IOThepercentageofthehostsIOcapacitythatisutilized NetThepercentageofthehostsnetworkthroughputcapacitythatisutilized VMsperhostThenumberofVMsrunningoneachhost
Whenchartingdatastores,youcanshowthefollowingmetrics: UITheUtilizationIndex,ameasureoftheoverallutilizationofresourcesonthedatastore StorageThepercentageofthestoragecapacitythatisutilized IOPsThepercentageofthecapacityforreadandwriteIOoperationspersecondthatisutilized LatencyThepercentageoflatencycapacitythatisutilized,measuredinms
Toseepreciseutilizationvalues,hoveroveradatapointtodisplayatooltip.
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TheDashboardsView
Displayingthe
UtilizationComparisonChart
IntheProjectedImprovementschart,youcanclicktheDetailsicontoopenaUtilizationComparisonchartforyour environment.ThischartisthesameastheviewyougetintheOptimizeview,minusthenavigationpanel.Forinfor mationaboutthisview,seeTheOptimizeViewonpage 146.
OptimalOperatingZone
Thischartprojectshowyourenvironmentcanchangeovertimefromthecurrentstatetoastatewithintheoptimal operatingzone(seeTheOptimalOperatingZoneonpage 3).YoucanviewprojectionsforMemoryandCPUutiliza tion,aggregatedforallthehostsinyourenvironment.
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Thechartshowsthehistoricaldatathatitusestomaketheprojection.YoucandragtheTimesliderstosetdatesfor thehistoricaldata. Thechartthenprojectsthevaluesformaximum,minimum,andaverageforwardintoaperiodofoneweek.Thispro jectionassumesyouhaveacceptedtheactionsintheToDolist.Youshouldseetheaveragetrendtowardthecenterof theoptimaloperatingzone.TheMaxandMinvaluesshouldtrendtowardthesamepoint,indicatingthatthesizeof theoperatingzoneisshrinkingtowithinanacceptablerangeofdeviationsfromtheaverage.
ImproveOverallEfficiency
Thisdashboardshowsyouopportunitiesyoucanexploittoimprovetheoperatingefficiencyofyourenvironment.You canusethisdashboardtoseehowtoconsolidateworkloadsandutilizeunderlyinginfrastructuremoreefficiently. Thedashboarddisplaysthisinformationinthefollowingpanels:
ToDoList
Thispaneldisplaysactionsyoucanexecutetoimproveoperationalefficiency.YoucantogglethepanelbetweenaTo Dolistandalistofcurrentefficiencyopportunities.(ForacompletedescriptionofToDopanels,seeToDoLists MaintainingQoSonpage 52.)
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VirtualMachineandStorage
ThispanellistsclustersofVMsthatyoucaninspecttoseehowtheyconsumestorageresources.
WhenyouexpandaVMcluster,thepanelshowshowmanyVMsareinthecluster,andhowmuchstorageisdevoted tothem.ThepanelalsoshowshowmanyVMsaredormant(noapplicationisactiveontheVM)andhowmanyare poweredoff.Inthisway,youcanseehowmuchstorageisheldinreservationforunusedVMs.
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WastedStorage
TheWastedStoragepanellistsdatastoreclusters,showingtheamountofwastedstorageforeach.InOperationsMan ager,wastedstorageisanydiskspacedevotedtofilesthatarenotrequiredforoperationsofthedevicesorapplica tionsinyourenvironment.FordatastoresthatyouhavesetasidetosupportVMs,wastedstoragemayindicate opportunitiesforyoutofreeupdiskspace,andprovidemorediskcapacitytorunningVMsandapplications. Note:YoucanspecifydirectoriesthatOperationsManagerwillnotconsiderwhencalculatingwastedstorage.For moreinformation,seeStorageSettingsonpage 253.
VirtualMachineEfficiency
ThispanellistsVMclusters,showinghowtheyconsumetheiravailablememoryandCPUresources.Expandtheclus terandtheMemoryorCPUresourcetoseethevalues. Foreachresourcetype,thetableshowsthefollowingamounts.Thesevaluesshowthetotalamountoftheresource thatisdevotedtotheindicatednumberofVMs. CurrentAmountHowmuchoftheresourceiscurrentlydevotedtotheindicatedVMs TargetAmountIfOperationsManagerseesanopportunitytoimproveefficiencybyreducingresource allocation,theamountthatshouldbedevotedtotheindicatedVMs ChangeTheamountofresourcesavingsyouwouldseebyexecutingthechange
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Thetableshowsthreerowsforeachresourcetype: ReservationTheamountoftheresourcethatisreservedfortheindicatedVMs;beforestartingupaVM,the hostmustbeabletoprovidethereservedamount LimitThelimitforthatresourceassetontheindicatedVMs CapacityTheamountoftheresourcethattheindicatedVMscanutilize;capacityisapropertyoftheVM,and indicateshowmuchoftheresourcethatVMisabletouse
Forexample,assumetheaboveillustration.Fortheexpandedcluster,youcansay: 11VMsconsumememory ForthoseVMs,thereservedmemorytotals9,019,392KB NoneoftheVMshavelimitstomemoryconsumption.However,twooftheVMshavelimitssuchthatthebothof themcannotconsumemorethan4,800MHzofCPUresources The11VMshaveanaggregatememorycapacityof14,925,824KB SixoftheVMshavereservedatotalof3,300MHzCPUprocessing The11VMsconsumeatotalof55,800MHzCPUprocessing The11VMsconsume640,494MBofstoragespace
YoucanclickaVMClusteritemtodisplaydetails,includingaToDolistandresourceconsumptionofeachVMinthe cluster.
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DisplayingVMClusterDetails
ProjectClusterResources
ThisdashboardprojectsyourfutureneedsforVMs,hosts,anddatastores.Withityoucanseewhenandwhereyou willyouneedadditionalresourcestosatisfygrowingworkloaddemand.Thedashboardstartsfromthecurrentstate ofyourenvironmentand: ShowsthedeploymentyouwouldachieveifyouacceptedtherecommendedactionsintheOperationsManager ToDolist Projectsyourneedsintothefuture,assumingyoumaintainsystemhealthbycontinuallyexecutingrecommended actions Updatesitsprojectionsdailytorespondtochangingpatternsofworkloadrequirements
Tomaketheseprojections,OperationsManageraddstheprojectednumberofVMstoahypotheticalenvironmentfor thegivenprojectionperiod.ItthenrunsWorkloadProjectionplanningscenariosforthegivenclustersonyourenvi ronment,withouttakingconstraintsintoaccount(seeWorkloadProjectiononpage 133).Thedashboardshowsa seriesofprojectionsfor: Onemonth Twomonths

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Threemonths Sixmonths Ninemonths Oneyear
Note:WhenyoufirstinstallandstartupOperationsManager,itbuildsupthelistofclusterprojectionsdaily.By default,itrunsayearsworthofprojectionsfortwoclusterseachday.Soifyouenvironmenthastenclusters,youwill seeafullsetofclusterprojectionsafterfivedaysofoperation. Thereliabilityofaprojectiondependsontheamountofhistoricaldataitcanusetoestablishacurveandextrapolate. Forexample,a12monthprojectionbasedontwoweeksofdataisnotasreliableas12monthsbasedon90daysof historicaldata.Ifthesystemhasnotbeenrunninglongenoughtoaccumulate60daysofdata,OperationsManager usestheavailabledatatogenerateprojectionsasfollows: Withlessthan6daysofhistoricaldata,thefirstandsecondmonthprojectionswillshowflatlines.Theother projectionswillbeblank. Withlessthan30daysofhistoricaldata,thedashboardcalculatesthefirstandsecondmonthprojections.The otherprojectionswillbeblank. Withmorethan30daysofhistoricaldata,thedashboardcalculatesprojectionsuptothe12thmonth.
Theprojectionsusehistoricaldatatoinvestigatehowworkloadhasbeenaddedinthepast,andprojectstheantici patedworkloadinthefuture.Forexample: Forthefirstmonthprojection,itlooksathowmanyVMswereaddedinthemonthprevious,andarestillpresent inyourenvironment.Forexample,ifyouadded6VMslastmonth,andonehasbeenremoved,thenthe1month projectionaddsanotherfiveVMs. Forthesecondmonthprojection,OperationsManagerusestwomonthsofhistoryinasimilarway.Forexample, ifyouaddedeightVMstwomonthsago,andfiveofthosearestillinyourenvironment,thentheprojection assumes10VMsfivefortwomonthsago,andfiveforlastmonth. Forthethirdmonthprojection,thecalculationsarethesame,onlyusingthreemonthsofdata. Forthe6,9and12monthprojections,OperationsManagerusesthethreemonthcalculation,andmultipliesit by2,3,and4,respectively.
Forexample,asworkloadchangesandyouaddmoreVMstoyourenvironment,theprojectionsassumeasimilarrate ofgrowth.Ifgrowthcontinuesatthatrate,theprojectionsshowwhenyouwillneedtoaddnewphysicalresourcesto supportgrowingdemand. Thedashboarddisplaysthefollowingpanels:
ClusterSummary
ThispanelliststhecurrentstateoftheVMclustersinyourenvironment.
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YoucanusethispaneltoseedetailsaboutthecurrentdeploymentofVMs,hosts,anddatastores.Youcanexpanda clusterentrytoseethecountsforVMs,hosts,anddatastoresintothefuture. Note:ThisreleaseofOperationsManagerdoesnotsupporttheprojectionoftotalsfordatastores.Ifyouexpandthe Totalitem,theDatastorescolumnshowsNAforeachrow. Asyouselectaclusterinthispanel,theotherdashboardpanelsupdatetoshowdataforthatcluster.Inthiswayyou canseehoweachclusterwillchangeintothefuture.Toseeprojectiondataforthefullenvironment,selecttheTotal item.
ClusterProjectionChart
ThischartshowsaprojectionoftotalmemoryandCPUusage,basedonthehistoricalperformanceofyourenviron ment.WhenyouselectanitemintheClusterSummarypanel,thischartupdatestoshowtheassociatedprojection data.
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ProvisioningProjections
ThesechartsshowhowyourrequirementsforVMs,hosts,anddatastoreswillchangeintothefuture.
Thegreenhorizontallineindicatesthenumberofdevicesyouhaveintheenvironmenttoday.Thebarsshowthepro jectednumberofdevicesyouwillneedintothefuture,withbluebarsforprojectionswithinthecurrentcapacity,and redbarsforprojectionsthatexceedthecurrentcapacity.Notethatwhiletheprojectionsforphysicalmachinesand datastoresarebelowcurrentcapacity,youcanprobablysavemoneybyconsolidatingyourVMsonfewerphysical devices.Whenprojectionsexceedcapacity,thechartsindicatewhenyouwillneedtoinvestinmorehardware resources. Intheaboveexample,thedashboardprojectsthatyouwillnotneedtoaddstorageinthenextyear.However,it appearsthatyouwillneedeightphysicalmachinesbeforetheyearsend.

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MonthlySummary
Thisdashboardshowshowyourenvironmenthaschangedoverthelastmonth.Youcanspottrendssuchasperiodsof peakload,oraconstantincreaseindemand.ThisinformationcanhelpyouunderstandtherecommendationsOpera tionsManagermakesintheToDolist,soyoucanbetterprioritizetheactionsandchoosewhichtoexecutefirst. Note:WhenyoufirststartOperationsManager,itwillnothavethehistoricaldatanecessarytodisplaychartsinthis dashboard.Ashistoricaldataaccumulates,thechartswillshowmoreinformation. Bydefault,thedashboardscopeisfortheentirevirtualenvironment.Youcansetthedashboardscopetoseemonthly summariesofindividualclusters(seeViewingStandardDashboardsonpage 66forinformationaboutsettingscope).
Summary
Thispanelcomparesthecurrentstateofyourenvironmenttoitsstatethepreviousmonth.
Eachcellinthepanelshowsthefollowinginformation: LastMonth Theaverageoflastmonthsdataforthatcell. ThisMonth Theaverageofthedatacollectedsoforthismonthforthatcell. MonthlyChange ThedifferencebetweenLastMonthandThisMonth. Target ThevalueyouwouldhaveifyourenvironmentwascurrentlyintheOptimalOperatingZone.Ifthetargetvalueisa dash,thismeanstherearenorecommendedactionsthatwillchangethetargetforthiscell.NotethatOperations ManagerdoesntcalculateatargetforeverycellinthispanelInthatcasethetargetisgray(NA).Hoveroverthe cellforatooltipthatdescribeswhichmetricsmakeupthebasisofthetargetcalculation.
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DeviceSummaries
ThesechartsshowhowthenumberofVMsandPMs,andtheconsumptionofstoragespacehaschangedovera periodofmonths.Eachdatapointshowstheaveragevalueforthegivenmonth.Theimagebelowshowstwomonths ofhistoricaldataasOperationsManagerretainsmorehistoricaldata,thechartscanshowtrendsoveralonger periodoftime.
Thechartsshowdataforthecurrentdashboardscope.NotethattheStoragechartshowstwoplots: StorageCapacityTheamountofstoragethatisavailabletotheclustersinthecurrentscope AllocatedStorageTheamountofstoragethatisusedbytheVMsrunningontheclustersinthecurrentscope
ClusterCapacity
Thisdashboardanswersthequestion,HowmanyVMscanIsafelyaddtoagivencluster?Thedashboardshowshow muchextracapacityyourclustershaveasVMheadroom. Tocalculateclustercapacityandheadroom,OperationsManagerrunsplanningscenariosthattakeintoaccountall theconditionsinyourcurrentenvironment.TheplanusestheEconomicSchedulingEnginetoidentifytheoptimal workloaddistributionforeachcluster.ThiscanincludemovingyourcurrentVMstootherhostswithinthegivenclus ter,ifsuchmoveswouldresultinamoredesirableworkloaddistribution.Theresultoftheplanisacalculationofhow manymoreVMstheclustercansupport. Note:BydefaultOperationsManagerrunstenCapacityPlansperday.Ifyouhavemorethantenclustersinyourenvi ronment,whenyoufirststartOperationsManageryouwillhavetowaitoneormoredaysbeforeallclustersappear inthisdashboard.TooltipsintheSummarypanelshowwhentheplanwaslastrunforeachcluster. TocalculateVMheadroom,theplanmustassumeeachadditionalVMhasbeenallocatedacertaincapacityforits resources.Toaccomplishthis,theplanusesaVMtemplateasaprofilefortheVMsthatfilltheclustersheadroom. Forthisreason,thecountofVMsgivenfortheheadroomisanapproximationbasedonthatVMtemplate.
Summary
Thispanelliststheclustersinyourenvironment,showingthecurrentcountofVMs,physicalmachinesanddatastores ineachcluster.ThelistalsoshowsheadroomhowmanymoreVMsyoucanaddtotheclusterandstillremainin thedesiredstate.
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Asyouselectaclusterinthepanel,thedashboardupdatestoshowdataforthatcluster.
ClusterResourceSummary
Thispanelshowsasummaryoftheresourcesfortheselectedcluster.Eachfieldshowstheaveragecurrentconsump tionoftheresource,comparedtoitsallocatedcapacity.
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NumberofVMsPerHost
ThischartshowsthecurrentVMsperhost,andalsoshowsthedesiredcountofVMs,assumingyouwanttofillthe headroomcompletely.NotethattheDesiredplotshowstheresultofrunningaplan.Thiscanincludemovingyour currentVMstodifferenthosts,buttheplanalwaysrespectstheclusteritnevermovesVMstohostsondifferent clusters.
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ClusterHeadroom
ThischartshowsthetotalnumberofVMscurrentlyrunninginthecluster,plusthetotalheadroomforthecluster.
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CustomDashboards
Asyouviewdashboards,youcansettheirscopetofocusonspecificclustersorgroups(seeViewingStandardDash boardsonpage 66).Aftersettingascopethatyouwant,youcanthensavetheresultingdisplayasacustomdash board.Forexample,youcansaveoffseparatedashboardsforeachclusterinyourenvironment.Inthatway,youcan usestandarddashboardstoinspectthewholeenvironment,andusecustomdashboardstoquicklyzoominonspe cificclusters. Youcansetscopeandcustomizethefollowingdashboardtypes: AssureServicePerformance ImproveOverallEfficiency
Tocreateacustomdashboard: 1. OpentheDashboardsflyoutpanel. Thispaneldisplaysthelistofavailabledashboards,andthecontrolstocreateacustomdashboard. 2. SelectastandarddashboardeitherAssureServicePerformance,ImproveOverallEfficiency,orMonthly Summary. YoucannotsetscopetotheClusterProjectiondashboard. 3. Setthescopeofthecurrentdashboard. ClicktheScopebutton( )toopentheDefineUserScopedialogbox.Thennavigatetotheclusterorgroupyou want,selecttheitem,andclickOk.
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4. Savethescoperesultsasacustomdashboard Ifyouaresatisfiedwiththescoperesults,clicktheSavebutton( box.NamethedashboardandclickOk. ThenewdashboardappearsintheMyDashboardslist. 5. Returnthestandarddashboardtoitsdefaultscope. SelectthestandardreportandclicktheResetScopebutton( )toreturntothedefaultscope. )toopentheSaveCustomDashboarddialog
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TheWorkloadView
TheWorkloadViewgivesauniqueperspectiveonthedistributionofworkloadthroughoutyourenvironment.Ata glance,youcanseehowtheVMsinyourenvironmentareutilized,andhowtheseVMsutilizetheirunderlyingHost andStorageresources.Theviewdisplaystwocharts CurrentWorkloadThecurrentdistributionofworkloadintheenvironment DesiredWorkloadTheworkloaddistributiontheenvironmentwouldachieveifyouexecutedthecurrentsetof recommendedactions
WorkloadStateCharts
TheworkloadchartsplotphysicalutilizationofhostandstorageresourcesalongtheXandYaxes.Thesemeasure eithertheutilizationindexvalueorthepercentageutilizationofthegivenhostandstorageproviders.Thechartis dividedintoagrid,anditplacesringsonthatgrid. EachringrepresentsasetofVMswithgivenhostandstorageutilizationvalues.Aringscenteriswithinagivengrid sector,andalltheVMsrepresentedbythatringexhibitutilizationvalueswithintherangedescribedbythatsector. ThesizeoftheringindicateshowmanyVMsexhibitthatutilization.
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AringalsoshowsinformationaboutthemostcriticalVMamongthoseitrepresents.Theringcolorindicatesthesta tusofthemostcriticalVMinthatset.ThisisafunctionofVMutilization,andnottheutilizationofthephysicalhost andstorageresources.Forthisreason,itspossiblethatagreenringcanbeinaveryhighvaluegridsector.Con versely,aredringcanshowlowphysicalresourceutilization. ThecenterofaringindicatestheresourceutilizationforthemostcriticalVMinaring.Ifaringiscenteredinthetop rightofasector,thenthatshowsthephysicalresourceconsumptionofthemostcriticalVM.AllotherVMsinthatring arelocatedinthesamesector,eveniftheringextendsoverneighboringsectors. Tosummarize,thechartsshowthefollowing: Physicalresourceutilization ThehorizontalandverticalaxesshowutilizationofresourcesonthePMsandstoragedevicesthathostthe chartedVMs.Eachringislocatedinagridsectortoindicatetheconsumedphysicalresources. NumberofVMswithgivenHost/Storageutilization OneringrepresentsoneormoreVMs.TheringsVMsutilizetheresourcesindicatedbythegivengridsector.The diameteroftheringindicateshowmanyVMssharethatgridsector. SeverityofVMutilization RingcolorshowstheutilizationofthemostcriticalVMamongthoserepresentedbythegivenring. PhysicalresourceutilizationformostcriticalVM ThecenteroftheringindicatesthehostandstorageresourcesutilizedbythemostcriticalVMinthering. InspectingChartDataonpage 87 ControllingChartDisplayonpage 90 SettingChartScopeonpage 91
Formoreinformation,see:
InspectingChartData
Thechartdisplayprovidesanoverviewofyourenvironment,withlimiteddetails.Youcanselectaregionofthechart todrilldownanddisplayinformationabouttheVMsthatareinthatregion.
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TheWorkloadView
TheinformationpanelswitchesbetweenalistoftheselectedVMsandalistofrecommendedactionsforthose selectedVMs.
VMsList
Foreachentry,theVMslistshowsthefollowinginformation:
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VMname UtilizationIndex PMthathoststheVM,anditsUtilizationIndex StoragedevicesthathosttheVMsdatastore,anditsutilizationindex
ToseewhereaspecificVMlinesupinthechart,hoverovertheVMentryinthelist.Bothchartsdisplaycrosshairsto showtheutilizationcoordinatesforthatVM.Inthisway,youcanseetheVMutilizationinthecurrentenvironment, andalsotheutilizationitwouldexhibitifyouacceptedtheexistingrecommendedactions.
RecommendedActionsList
TheinformationpanelincludesanactionslistthatgivesthesameinformationastheOperationsManagerToDolist. (ForacompletedescriptionofToDolists,seeToDoListsMaintainingQoSonpage 52.)
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TheWorkloadView
ThelistofrecommendedactionspertainstothecurrentlyselectedVMs.Toexecuteactions,selecttheactionsyou wantandclickExecuteSelected.
ControllingChartDisplay
TheWorkloadViewincludesaflyoutpanelforChartControls.Tomodifythechartdisplay,openthisflyoutpaneland makethesettingsyouwant.
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TheWorkloadChartFlyOutPanel
SettingChartScope
Tosetthescopeofthecharts,opentheGroupsflyoutmenuandchooseaVMgroup.Forexample,youcanchoosea singlePMtolimitthecharttoonlytheVMsthatarerunningonaspecifichost.
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TheDeployView
UsetheDeployViewtoaddVMstoyourenvironment.Forexampleifyouneedtodeploymoreapplications,youcan usethisviewtocalculatewheretoplacenewVMsandactuallydeploytheminyourenvironment.Inthisway,Opera tionsManagerprovidesendtoendintelligentworkloadmanagement,fromspecifyingactionstokeepyourenviron mentintheOptimalOperatingZone,todeployingnewVMsintheoptimallocations,ascalculatedbyOperations Manager.
TherearetwowaystospecifyresourceallocationandotherdetailsfortheVMsyouwilldeploy: Choosetemplatesthatarebuiltfromdiscovereddata ManyhypervisorsstoresourceVMs,andcopydatafromthosesourcefilestodeploynewVMs.Operations ManagerdiscoversthesesourceVMstobuildtemplatesthatyoucanchooseontheDeployView.Notethat discoveredtemplatesarereadonlyyoucannoteditthesetemplates. ChoosetemplatesthathavebeenauthoredinOperationsManager YoucancreateandedittemplatesthatspecifyyourVMconfiguration,andusethosetospecifyresourcesforthe newVMs.
Note:TERMINOLOGYISSUESomehypervisorsrefertosourceVMsastemplates.WithinOperationsManager, templatesarefilesthatdescribeaVM,host,ordatastore.Forthistopic,thewordtemplatereferstoanOperations Managertemplate.VMTemplatesspecifytheresourcesallocatedforaVM,andDeploymentProfilesspecifydetails

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suchasthedatacenterorclustertohostthenewVM,andthepackagefiles(OVForVHD)forthesourceVM.Theterm sourceVMreferstotheVMdeploymentdatathatisstoredonahypervisor. ThedatainaVMtemplatespecifiestheresourcestoallocateforthedeployedVMs.WhenOperationsManagerlooks fortheappropriatehostfortheVM,itlooksforahostthatcanbestprovidetheseresources. ThefollowingtopicsdescribehowtousetheDeployview: DeployingVMsonpage 94 CreatingandEditingTemplatesonpage 95
DeployingVMs
Note:AninstanceofOperationsManagercanonlysupportonedeploymentsessionatatime.Thecalculationsto proposeandtoexecuteadeploymenttakeacertainamountoftime.Whiletheseprocessesareunderway,Operations Managerwillnotallowyoutobeginanewdeploymentsession.AnyotherusersloggedintothesameOperations ManagerinstancewillreceiveanerroriftheytrytodeployVMswhiletheseprocessesareunderway. TodeployVMs,youwillperformthefollowingsteps: 1. ProvideanamefortheVMorVMs. ProvideadescriptivenamesoyoucaneasilyfindtheseVMsintheinventory. 2. ChoosetheVMTemplatetouseforthenewVMs. VMTemplatesspecifytheresourcesavailabletotheVM,including: VCPUs VirtualMemory Storage NetworkThroughput IOPs IOThroughput ChoosetheVMTemplatethatspecifiestheresourceallocationthatyouwantfortheVM. ToinspectVMTemplates,opentheEditTemplatesdialogbox( ),andselectthetemplateyoureinterestedin. (Formoreinformationaboutusingthisdialogbox,seeCreatingVMTemplatesonpage 96.)NotethatiftheVM Templatewasdiscovered,itsnamebeginswiththeIPaddressofthehypervisorthatmanagesthatVMtemplate data.Also,adiscoveredtemplateisreadonly(youcannoteditdiscoveredtemplates). WhenyouchooseaVMTemplate,theDeploymentProfileslistbecomesactive. 3. SpecifyhowmanyVMstodeploywiththisaction. WhenyoudeploymorethanoneVM,OperationsManagerappendsanumbertotheVMnameyouprovide (MyVM_0,MyVM_1,MyVM_2,etc.). 4. ChoosetheDeploymentProfiletouseasthebasisofyournewVMs. TheDeploymentProfilespecifiesphysicaldetailsabouthowtodeploytheVM,including: ThepathtotheVMpackagefiles(OVForVHD)thatwillbecopiedtodeploythisVM.NotethatiftheDeploy mentProfiledatawasdiscoveredbyOperationsManager,thentheprofiledoesnotshowapathtotheVM packagefiles.
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Optionalplacementconstraints(constraintodatacenterorcluster)IftheDeploymentProfiledoesnotspecify adatacenterorcluster,thenOperationsManagerisfreetodeploytheVManywhereinyourvirtualenviron ment. ToinspectDeploymentProfiles,opentheEditTemplatesdialogbox,andselectthetemplateyoureinterestedin. (Formoreinformationaboutusingthisdialogbox,seeCreatingDeploymentProfilesonpage 97.)Notethatifthe DeploymentProfilewasdiscovered,itsnamebeginswiththecharactersDEP-forDeployment.Adiscovered profileisreadonly(youcannoteditdiscoveredDeploymentProfiles). 5. BeginthedeploymentactionOperationsManagerdisplaysdetailsfortheVMsitwilldeploy. Afteryouhavemadeyourchoices,clickBeginDeploy.OperationsManagerstartstocalculatetheoptimalplace mentfortheVMsyouhavedecidedtodeploy. OperationsManagerdoesnotdeploytheVMsatthisstep.Afteritfinishesthecalculations,OperationsManager displaysalistofproposedVMdeployments,oneforeachVMthatyouspecified.Youmayhavetowaitbrieflywhile OperationsManagermakesthesecalculations. 6. Reviewtheproposeddeployment,andcommittheaction. Besuretoreviewthedeploymentdetailslist,andmakesureyouwanttodeploytheseVMs.Ifyoudonot,youcan canceltheoperationnow,beforeOperationsManagermakesanychangestoyourenvironment. IfyouagreewiththeproposedVMdeployment,clickCommittocreatetheVMs.Youmayhavetowaitafew minuteswhileOperationsManagerperformsthedeploymentactions. Whenthedeploymenthasfinished,youcanseealistingofthestatusforeachdeployedVM.Ifadeploymentfailed, thelistingincludesthereasonforthefailure. IfforsomereasonyoulogoutofOperationsManager,thedeploymentactioncompletesanyway.Whenyoulogin again,OperationsManagerdisplaysanalerttellingyouthatyouloggedoutwhileadeploymentwaspending.
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TodeployVMs,youselectaVMTemplatetospecifydesiredresourcesfortheVM,andaDeploymentProfiletospecify deploymentdetailssuchasthesourceVMpackage(theOVForVHDfiles)andoptionalplacementconstraints.
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OperationsManagercreatesanumberofVMTemplatesautomaticallyasitdiscoverssourceVMdataonthetarget hypervisors.Thesetemplatesarereadonly;youcannoteditthembecausetheyreflectdatathatisspecifiedintarget hypervisor.OperationsManageralsodiscoversassociatedDeploymentProfilesthatcorrespondwiththediscovered templates(alsoreadonly). YoucancreateyourownVMTemplatesandDeploymentProfiles,andusethemtodeployVMs.Inthisway,youcan planforanddeployVMswithdifferentconfigurationsthananyVMscurrentlydefinedinyourenvironment.Opera tionsManageruserscaneditthesetemplatesiftheyhaveprivilegestousetheDeployview. Thisfollowingsectionsdescribe: CreatingVMTemplatesonpage 96 CreatingDeploymentProfilesonpage 97 DiscoveredDeploymentDataonpage 97
CreatingVMTemplates
VMTemplatesdescribetheresourceallocationthatyouwanttoprovideforaclassofVMs.WhendeployingVMs, OperationsManagerusesthevaluesthatarespecifiedinachosenVMtemplate.Beforecreatingthetemplate,you shouldplanallocationofthefollowingresources: VCPUs ThevirtualCPUsassignedtotheVM. VirtualMemory ThememorysizefortheVM,inMB.NotethatyoushouldneverallocatelessthanisrequiredfortheguestOS. Storage TheamountofdiskstorageassignedtotheVM,inGB. NetworkThroughputUsed TheamountofthehostsnetworkthroughputtoassigntotheVM,inMB/s. IOPs TheinputoperationspersecondallocatedtotheVM. IOThroughputUsed TheamountofthethroughputonthehostsIObustoassigntotheVM,inMB/s.
ThevaluesyousetfortheseresourcesdeterminetheconfigurationofanyVMsyoudeployusingthistemplate. TocreateaVMTemplate: 1. ClicktheCreate/Editicon( )toopenthedialogbox. 2. Inthedialogbox,clicktheAddiconfortheVMTemplateslist. Toeditanexistingtemplate,selectthetemplateandclicktheEditicon.Notethatyoucanonlyeditusercreated templates. 3. Inthefieldsthatappear,entersettingsfortheVMTemplate. TheTemplateNameandVendorfieldshelpidentifythetemplateforfutureuse. 4. ClickApplywhenyouredone.
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ADeploymentProfilespecifiesthephysicalfilesthatwillbecopiedtodeploytheVM,aswellasoptionalplacement limitations. Note:InmanycasesitsbesttosimplyletOperationsManagerchoosewheretoplacetheVMsyoudeploy.However, ifyouwanttolimitdeploymenttoaspecificdatacenterorcluster,youcanuseaDeploymentProfiletospecifythese constraints.IfyouarecreatingaprofileforVMsinaHyperVenvironment,youshouldalwaysselectaHyperVdata centerorclusterfortheprofile. Beforecreatingtheprofile,youshouldknow: ThepathtotheVMpackagefiles(OVForVHD)thatwillbecopiedtocreatetheVM Optionally,thenameofthedatacenterorclusterthatyouwanttodeploytheVMsto )toopenthedialogbox.
TocreateaDeploymentProfile: 1. ClicktheCreate/Editicon( 2. Inthedialogbox,clicktheAddiconfortheDeploymentProfileslist. 3. Inthefieldsthatappear,providethesettingsfortheDeploymentProfile. 4. ClickApplywhenyouredone.
DiscoveredDeploymentData
ManyhypervisortechnologiessupporttheuseofsourceVMsasfilesthatcanbecloned,andtheclonescanbe deployedasrunningVMs.Forexample,XenServerandCloudStackrequiretheuseofsuchsourceVMstodeploynew runningVMsintheirenvironments.Whenitperformsdiscovery,OperationsManageridentifiesthesourceVMdata oneachhypervisor,andbuildsacorrespondingsetofVMTemplatesandDeploymentProfiles. Note:HyperVtargetsdonotincludediscoveredVMTemplatesandDeploymentProfiles.Youmustcreatethesefiles todeployVMsinaHyperVenvironment.IntheDeploymentProfile,youmustspecifyaHyperVdatacenter. FordiscoveredVMTemplatesandDeploymentProfiles,OperationsManagerusesthefollowingnamingconventions: VMTemplateThesenamesbeginwiththeIPaddressofthehypervisorthatstoresthem DeploymentProfileThesenamesbeginwiththecharactersDEP-forDeployment,andiftheymatcha discoveredtemplate,theprofilenamemirrorsthetemplatesname
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Toviewthesettingsforadiscoveredtemplateorprofile,openthetemplateeditorandselecttheitemyouwantto inspect.Theeditorshowsthetemplateorprofileinadimmedview. YoucannoteditadiscoveredVMTemplateorDeploymentProfile.Thisistopreservetheintegrityofthetemplateand profileinrelationtothesourceVMdata.
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ThePlannergivesyouthetoolstocreatewhatifscenariosthatexplorepossibilitiessuchas: Optimalworkloaddistributionacrosscurrentresources Projectedsystemrequirements Addingnewandmorepowerfulhardware Impactofdownsizing,orremovingresources
OperationsManagerrunsthesescenariosanddisplaysresultsthatgiveyouoptimumutilizationindexesforyourpro posedenvironment.Ascenarioshowsasummaryofyourresultingenvironment,utilizationchartsforyourresources, aswellasrecommendedactionsyoucanperformtoachievethedesiredresults. Forexample,assumeyourunaplanthataddsvirtualmachinestoacluster.Thesummarymightshowthatyougaina lowerandmoreevenlyspreadutilizationindexifyouaddmorevirtualmachinestoasmallernumberofphysical hosts.Therecommendedactionswouldthenindicatewhichhostsyoucantakeoffline,andhowtodistributeyourvir tualmachinesamongtheremaininghosts. TousethePlanner,openthePlanview,thencreateandrunplans.ThefollowingfigureshowsthePlanneruserinter face,withthesefeatures: Thesummaryshowsthattheutilizationindexhasbeenevenedoutacrossallthehostmachines.Thegreenplotis theresultingindex,whilethebarsonthechartindicatethecurrentutilizationindex.Youcandisplaychartsfor utilizationindex,memoryconsumption,CPUpercentage,IOutilization,andnetworkutilization. TheChangespanelalsoshowsthatthisscenariosuggestsyouaddtwonewhoststosupportthe20newVMs. Thereareanumberofsuggestedactionsyoucanperformtoachievethedesiredresults.
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ThePlannertoolbarincludesthefollowing:
DisplaythedifferentPlannerviews: SummaryViewonpage 104 PhysicalMachineUtilizationViewonpage 106 StorageUtilizationViewonpage 106 PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationViewonpage 107 Limitthephysicaldevicesthatareincludedintheplanningscenarioforexample,limit toagivencluster.SeeSettingPlanScopeonpage 113. SpecifyworkloadparametersfortheplanaddorremoveVMs,PM,anddatastoresto changeloadorcapacity.SeeSpecifyingthePlanWorkloadonpage 118. Specifybaselineutilizationstatistics(currentorhistoric)fortheplan.SeeSelectingthe PlanBaselineonpage 115. Specifyadvancedparametersforutilization,VMConstraints,andWorkloadPlacement. SeeSettingAdvancedOptionsonpage 126. Runtheplan.Theplancanrecognizeexistingconstraints(clusters,network/storage constraints,andworkloadplacementpolicies),oritcandisabletheconstraintsbefore running(mergeandrun).Whileaplanisrunning,theStopbuttonappears.Youcanstop arunningplanifnecessary.SeeRunningPlansonpage 108. Create,save,load,ordeleteplans.SeeCreatingPlansonpage 111.
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ThePlannerisespeciallyusefulforsystemarchitectsandsystemadministrators. SystemarchitectscanusePlannertoinvestigatehowtoexpandthephysicalandvirtualinventorytothebesteffect. Plannercanindicatehowmuchnewhardwaretoadd,howtodistributeVMsamongclustersofhosts,andwhether componentsoftheproposednetworkwillbeoverorunderutilized. SystemadministratorscanusePlannertoanswerimmediatequestions.Ifyouexpectasurgeinutilizationordemand, youcanusePlannertoexplorehowtodeploynewVMsthatperformspecificfunctions. Thefollowingsectionsshowexamplescenariosthatcanaddresstheseusecases.
IncreasingVirtualLoadunderExistingConstraints
AssumeyouwanttodeterminetheloaddistributionifyouaddmoreVMstoyourenvironment.Todothis,youwould createaWorkloadDistributionscenariothataddsthenewVMs,andthendeterminesthebestwaytospreadthe increasedloadamongyourphysicalhostsanddatastores. Yourenvironmentalreadyhasitsphysicalsystemsassignedtoclustersandresourcepools.AsyouaddVMstothe environment,youwanttorespecttheseconstraints.Whenthinkingaboutthisscenario,imagineasking,Whatwould happenifIaddtenVMsrunningWebservers,andtenVMsrunningdatabaseservers?HowcanIoptimallydeploy theseVMsinmycurrentenvironment? ToplanoutthebestwaytoaddtheseVMstoyourinventory,youcreateaWorkloadDistributionscenariothat: IdentifieshowmanyVMstoadd UsesanexistingWebserverVMasamodelforyournewWebserverVMs UsesanexistingdatabaseVMasamodelforyournewdatabaseVMs
ThefollowingstepsshowhowtocreatesuchascenariointhePlanview: 1. DisplaytheWorkloadDistributiontabinthePlanner.
2. ChooseNewfromthePlanpopupmenu.
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ThisclearsthePlannersoyoucanspecifyanewplan. 3. Edittheloadforyourplan. Forthisplanyouwilladd20VMstoyourenvironment. ClicktheLoadicon( )toopentheEditLoaddialogbox SpecifythepropertiesoftheVMsthatyouwilladdForthisscenario,youwilladdcopiesofexistingVMsto yourload.CopyingexistingVMsisjustonewaytospecifythepropertiesofyournewVMs.Toaddcopiesofa specificVM,expandtheVMgroupandselecttheVMyouwant,thenclickADD.Inthefollowingimage,the dialogboxissetuptoadd10copiesofaVMnamedFedora1:
NowselectanotherVMtocopy,andadd10moreVMstoyourloadBesuretoclickADDafteryouhave selectedthenewVMtocopy.
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Nowthatyouhavedefinedthenewload,clickClose and Run. Alternatively, you can just click Close and
make other settings before running the planner scenario. For example, to plan for a recurring peak load you can run the scenario against a load that occurred in the past. Or you can specify the scope of the scenario so that it will only run on a specific group of physical hosts. After making these other changes, you would then click Runtoexecutetheplan.
WhenOperationsManagerisfinishedrunningtheplan,verifythattheprocesscompletedwithsuccessThe PlanDetailsshowthecurrentstatusoftheplan:
Afterasuccessfulrun,youcanreviewtheresultsinthePlanview.Toseetheresults,chooseoneofthefollowingview categoriesfromtheViewdropdownmenu: SummaryViewonpage 104 PhysicalMachineUtilizationViewonpage 106 StorageUtilizationViewonpage 106
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PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationViewonpage 107 ActionPlanonpage 107
SummaryView
Thisviewshowsanoverviewcomparisonofthecurrentandtargetconfigurations.Itincludesthefollowingpanes:
PlanSetup
Thispanedisplaysthesetupandstatusofthecurrentscenario.
NameIftheplanscenariohasbeensaved,thesavedname ScopeWhatclustersorgroupsinyourenvironmenttheplanwasrunover BaselineUtilizationstatisticsfromthisdateformthebasisofrunningtheplan StateWhethertheplanisrunning,hassucceeded,orwasstoppedbeforecompletion LastRunTimeWhentheplancompletedorwasstopped PlanModificationLogHowtheplanscenariodiffersfromthecurrentenvironment
Host/DatastoreChanges
Thispaneshowstheoverallresultsofyourproposedchangesastheycomparetoyourcurrentenvironment.Itpres entsatableshowingchangestothenumberofphysicalhostsandVMs,aswellasanestimateoftotalsavingsorcost ofinvestment. Afterrunningthisscenario,thetableshowsatargetof19hosts,comparedtothecurrentenvironmentthatuses25. Toachieve19hosts,theplansuggestsyouaddtwonewhosts,andsuspendeightoftheoldones.Thetablealso showsthatthetargetenvironmentsupports223VMs,toaccountforthe20VMsweaddedinthesetup.
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PlanImprovements
Thispaneshowschartsthatcomparethecurrentenvironmenttothetargetintermsofthedevicetypeandmetrics youchoosetoplot.Toseeactualvaluesintooltips,hoveroverthedatapointsinthechart.Usethefollowingtools:
ChoosethetypeofdevicetoplotHostsordatastores.
Choosethemetricstoplot: UI(utilizationindex) Mem(hostmemoryutilization) CPU(hostCPUutilization) IO(IOthroughputonthehost) Net(networkutilizationonthehost) VMperHost Storage(Utilizationofallocatedcapacityondatastore) IOPS(Inputoperationspersecond) ClickthisbuttontotogglebetweenTop10andBottom10.
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Thesechartsshowthetop10orbottom10forhostsordatastores,sortedaccordingtothetargetresults.Thesorting isforthetargetresults,sothehighestutilizationforthetargetcouldbeplottedoveradeviceintheoriginalenviron ment,oritcouldbeplottedasanewdevice.Forexample,inthefigurebelow,theUIchart(topleft)plotsthehighest targetUIasanewlyaddedhost(nobarforanydeviceinthecurrentenvironment).
PhysicalMachineUtilizationView
ThesechartsshowcurrentanddesiredutilizationforthephysicalmachinesthatsupportyourVMs.Withthemyou caneasilycomparethecurrentandtargetstates.
StorageUtilizationView
ThisviewissimilartoPhysicalMachineUtilizationView,exceptitshowsstorageamount,IOPS,andlatency.Forthis scenario,wehavenotmadeanychangesthatwouldaffectstorage.
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PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationView
Thisviewshowstablesofutilizationmetricsforyourphysicalmachinesandstoragedevices.Thetablesshowcurrent anddesiredmetrics.Notethatthevaluesherearethesameasthevaluesshowninthevariousbarcharts,butthey areintabularform. Thefollowingimageshowsthedesiredutilizationforphysicalmachinesandstorage.
ActionPlan
Afterrunningascenario,OperationsManagerpostsactionsthatitrecommendsyoutaketoachievethetargetconfig uration.Youcanbrowsetheseactionsandperformthemasappropriate.
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RunningPlans
Youcanuseplanstocomparehypotheticalconditionsagainstthecurrentconditionsofyourenvironment.Youcan modifyaplanbysettingconditionssuchas: AddingorremovingVMs Usinghistoricalloadconditions Respectingorignoringconstraintssuchasclustersorworkloadplacementpolicies Addinghardwareorrestrictingtheplantothecurrentinventory
Note:Bydefault,anewanduntitledplanmirrorsyourcurrentenvironment.YoucanrunthePlanneragainstsucha scenario,anditwillgiveyouresultsforyourcurrentenvironment.Forexample,tochecktheworkloaddistributionof yourcurrentenvironmentyousimplyrunanewanduntitledplan. ThePlannercanrunscenariostocalculatethreetypesofresults: WorkloadDistributionThePlannercalculatestheconfigurationofyourenvironmentthatwillbestdistribute theplannedloadacrossyourdevices.Youcanruntheplanwithnomodificationstodistributethecurrentloadon yourenvironment,oryoucancreateaplanthatspecifiesadifferentload.Formoreinformation,seeWorkload Distributiononpage 130. WorkloadProjectionThePlanneruseshistoricalresourceconsumptiondatatocalculatethefuture consumptionyoucanexpectundertheplansconditions.Runaplanwithnomodificationstoseehowyour currentconfigurationwillholdupintothefuture.Oryoucanrunaprojectionwithplanconditionsthattesthow theenvironmentwouldrespondinthefuturetoadifferentload.Formoreinformation,seeWorkloadProjection onpage 133. HardwareReplaceUsetemplatesforhostsordatastorestoplantheeffectsyouwillseeifyouchangethe capacityofthephysicaldevicesinyourenvironment.Formoreinformation,seeHardwareReplaceonpage 137.
Bydefault,aplanincorporatesalltheconstraints(cluster,storage,andnetwork)andworkloadplacementpoliciesthat areineffect.Youcanrunaplanintwomodeswithrespecttotheseconstraints:
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Normalmode: Theplanincorporatesalltheconstraints.Forexample,inthismodetheplanwillnotgiveresources fromoneclustertoaVMthatisconstrainedtoanothercluster. Mergemode: Theplandisablesalltheconstraintsbeforerunning.Forexample,inthismodetheplanresultscan include: MovingVMstohardwarethatisinadifferentcluster MovingVMstohardwarethatusesdifferentstorage Changesthatviolateenabledworkloadplacementpolicies
Whenyourunaplan,youcancontrolwhethertheplanresultsassumeyouwilladdnewhosts,oryouwillsupportthe plannedconditionswithyourcurrenthostinventory.ClicktheEnableHostProvisioningtool theadditionofnewhostsinyourenvironment. toenableordisable
Note:Theresultsofrunningaplanareincrementalifyourunthesameplantwice,thesummarycomparesthefirst plansresultstothesecondplansresults.Forexample,assumeyouclickRuntorunaplanthatrespectsallthe constraintsinyourenvironment,anditsuggestssuspendingahostforexample,fromacurrentinventoryof15 hosts,toadesiredinventoryof14hosts.TheSummarypanelwillshowabarchartfor15hostsinyourcurrentenvi ronment,comparedtoadesiredresultwith14hosts.ThenifyouclickMergeandRuntodisableconstraints,the Summarypanelwillshowabarchartfor14hostsinyourcurrentenvironment,comparedtothenewdesiredresults. Toensurecleanresultsthatareeasytounderstand,youshouldnotrunthesameplansuccessively.Instead,youshould loadanewplan,orreloadasavedplanbeforeclickingRunorMergeandRun.Forinformationaboutloadingplans, seetheprocedurebelow,orseeManagingPlanFilesonpage 112. Torunaplan: 1. Displaytheplantypeyouwant:WorkloadDistribution,WorkloadProjection,orHardwareReplace.
2. Eitherloadasavedplan,orclearthecurrentplantocreateanewanduntitledplan.
Tocleartheplan,chooseNew.Toloadaplan,chooseOpen,andthenpicktheplanyouwanttoload. 3. Makeanyspecialsettingsyouneedforthetypeofplanningscenarioyouwanttorun. IfyouarerunningaWorkloadProjection,settheprojectionparameters.Theprojectionparametersdetermine: TherangeoftimefortheprojectionsbaseTheprojectionwillperformalinearinterpolationbasedonhistor icalworkloaddata.Asyousetatimerange,thedialogboxchartstheCPUandmemorystatisticsforthatrange.
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Period:howfarintothefuturetoprojecttheworkloadUsingthebasetimerange,thePlannerwillprojectthe workloadthisfarintothefuture. YoucanonlysettheseparametersifyouareintheWorkloadProjectiontab.Inthistab,theUtilizationChart includescontrolstosettheprojectionsbaseandperiod.Afteryouruntheplan,thischartwillshowtheprojection data.
Formoreinformation,seeWorkloadProjectiononpage 133. Ifyouarereplacinghardware,setthescopeofthehardwareyouwillreplace,andchoosetemplatestodescribe thenewhardware.Formoreinformation,seeHardwareReplaceonpage 137.
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4. Runtheplan RuntheplaninNormalorMergemode.
NotethatRuniconchangestoStop(
)whileaplanisrunning.Youcanstoparunningplanifnecessary.
Afterrunningaplan,youcanreviewtheresultsaccordingtothetypeofplanyouhaverun.Formoreinformation,see WorkloadDistributiononpage 130andWorkloadProjectiononpage 133.
CreatingPlans
Aplandefinestheworkload,resources,andrulesthatyouwanttousewhencalculatingresults.Youcanthinkofa planasadescriptionofyourdesiredenvironment.OperationsManagerthencalculatestheresultsthatcancome fromtheplannedchanges. Note:Whenyoucreateanewanduntitledplan,itisadescriptionofyourcurrentenvironment.Youcanrunthe Planneragainstsuchaplan,anditwillgiveyouresultsforyourcurrentenvironment.Forexample,tocheckthework loaddistributionofyourcurrentenvironmentyoucansimplyrunanewanduntitledplan.
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Tocreateaplan,youspecifyitspropertiesandthensaveit.Aftersavingaplanyoucanopenit,runit,editit,ordelete it. Thefollowingsectionsdescribethestepsforplancreation: ManagingPlanFilesonpage 112 TrackingPlanModificationsonpage 112 SettingPlanScopeonpage 113 SelectingthePlanBaselineonpage 115 SpecifyingthePlanWorkloadonpage 118 SettingAdvancedOptionsonpage 126
ManagingPlanFiles
ThePlandropdownmenu( )providesthefollowingcommands: NewClearthecurrentplan,andloadanew,untitledplan.Thepropertiesofthisnewplanarethesameasyour currentenvironment. OpenChooseasavedplantoopen.
SaveSavesanychangesyoumadetothecurrentplan. SaveAsOpenstheSaveAsdialogbox,whereyoucannameandsavethecurrentplan. DeleteSavedPlanYoucandeleteplansyousaved,orsharedplans. ShowPlanReportOpensareportforthecurrentplaninanewbrowsertab.
TrackingPlanModifications
Asyoumakechangestotheloadedplan,theSummaryGridpanedisplaysarunninglogofyourmodifications.Inthis wayyoucantracktheprogressofyouredits.Forexample,thefollowingimageshowsthattheplanhasbeenchanged toremoveonehostfromtheenvironment(amongotherchangestotheplan).
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Notethatifyouwanttostartoveraftermakingmanychanges,youcanreloadtheplan,orsaveyourchangesasanew plan.
SettingPlanScope
Planscopedetermineswhichdevicesintheenvironmentwillbeaffectedbytheplan.Forexample,youcanspecify thataplanwillonlyrunonyourDevelopmentclusterofPMs.Inthatcase,thecurrentenvironmentforyourplan wouldonlyincludePMsintheDevelopmentcluster,theVMshostedbythosemachines,anddatastoresthatsupport thosemachines.Likewise,thetargetresultswouldonlycorrespondtothosemachines. ScopeisdetermineddifferentlyifyouselectVMsorphysicalhosts: ScopebyVMWhenyousetscopebyVMs,OperationsManagerlimitstheplantothephysicalhoststhatthose VMsareallowedtorunon.Likewise,theplanincludesallthedatastoresthatareavailabletotheVMsinyour scope. ScopebyPMWhenyousetscopebyPM,OperationsManagerlimitstheplantothosephysicalhosts.Fordata stores,OperationsManageridentifiesalltheVMsthatcanrunonthehostsinyourscope,andidentifiesallthe datastoresthatareavailableforthoseVMs.
Note:Whensettingscopeforaplan,youcanchoosemultiplegroups.However,youshouldbesuretochoosegroups ofthesametype.Forexample,youshouldnotscopebyPMandVMgroupsforthesameplan. Tosetthecurrentplansscope,clicktheScopeicon( ).ThisopenstheDefineUserScopedialogbox.
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Ctrlclicktoselectmultipleitemsinthelist.WhenyouclickOK,OperationsManagersetsthatscopetothecurrent plan.YoucanseethescopeforthecurrentplaninthePlanDetailstable.
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SelectingthePlanBaseline
TheplanbaselineisthesetofutilizationstatisticsthatthePlannerusestocalculatetargetorprojectedresults.You canusethecurrentstatistics,oryoucanchoosestatisticsfromapastperiod.Forexample,ifutilizationtypicallypeaks atacertaintimeoftheday,oracertaindayoftheweek,youcanchoosethatmomentasyourbaseline. Tosetthebaseline,clicktheSetBaselineicon( ).Inthedialogboxthatappears,clickadatapointtochoosethe momentyouwant.YoucansetthebaselineforWorkloadDistributionandHardwareReplacescenarios.
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Afteryouclickadatapoint,thedialogboxdisplaysthestatisticsforloadsontheenvironmentsphysicalhosts.
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Whenyouaresatisfiedwiththebaselinesettings,clickApplyBaseline.Youcanseetheplanscurrentbaselineinthe PlanDetailstable.
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SpecifyingthePlanWorkload
TheplanworkloadisdeterminedbythesetofVMsthataredeployedinyourenvironment,comparedtothePMsand DataStoresthatprovideresourcestothem.ThemoreVMsyouhaveforagivennumberofPMsanddatastores,the greatertheloadwillbeonthesephysicaldevices.WithaplanyoucanaddorremoveVMs,PMs,andDataStoresto seewhatthetargetorprojectedresultswouldbe.Forexample,youcandefineaplanthataddsVMstothesameset ofPMsandDataStores.OryoucanupgradeyourphysicalhostssotheyhavemoreCPUormemoryresources,andsee howthatwouldaffectthewayyourenvironmentsupportsthecurrentcropofVMs. Tosettheplansload,clicktheEditLoadicon( youcanspecify. ).Thedialogboxthatappearsdisplaysalistoftheloadmodifications
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ThedialogboxgivesyouactionstoperformonVMs,physicalhosts,anddatastores.Theactionsyoucanperformare similarforallthreetypes;exampleswillshowperformingtheseactionsforVMs. Theactionsyoucanperformare: Addonpage 119Addoneormoredevicestotheenvironment. AddUsingTemplateonpage 121Useatemplatetospecifythepropertiesofthedevicesyouwanttoadd. ReplaceUsingTemplateonpage 122Useatemplatetospecifyproperties,andreplaceexistingdeviceswith thesenewdevices.Forexample,usethistoupgradeaphysicalhostwithmorememoryorCPUresources. Removeonpage 122Selectthedevicesyouwillremove. ChangeResourceUtilizationonpage 123(forVMs,only)IncreaseordecreasetheloadonselectedVMsbya givenpercentagepoint.
Youcanalsocreatetemplatesforaddandremoveoperations.Formoreinformation,seeCreatingTemplateson page 124.
Add
Selectadevicetoserveasamodelofwhatyouwanttoadd,thenspecifyhowmanycopiesofthatdeviceyouwantto addtotheenvironment.
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1. ChoosetheAddaction. 2. Navigatethelistofitemstochoosewhichitemtoadd. 3. Specifythenumberofcopiestoadd,thenclickAdd. ThelistofitemswillincludefoldercalledNewEntities.Youcanexpandthatfoldertoseetheseitemsyouhave added.
Youcanrepeatthesestepsselectanotheritemtocopy,specifythenumberofcopies,thenclickAdd.Newaddi tionswillappearintheNewEntitiesfolder.
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4. Whenyouhavefinishedaddingitemstotheplansload,closethedialogbox. ClickClosetoclosethedialogbox.Usethisoptionifyouwanttomakemorechangestotheplan,orifyouwantto savetheplanbeforeyourunit. ClickCloseandRuntoclosethedialogboxandruntheplanimmediately.
AddUsingTemplate
Selectatemplatetoserveasamodelofwhatyouwanttoadd,thenspecifyhowmanycopiesofthattemplated deviceyouwanttoaddtotheenvironment.Youcanalsochoosetocreateanewtemplateoreditanexistingtemplate (seeCreatingTemplatesonpage 124).
1. ChoosetheAddUsingTemplateaction. 2. Choosethetemplateyouwanttouse. Notethatintheaboveexample,thetemplateswithIPaddresseshavebeendiscoveredontheindicatedhypervi sors.TemplateswithoutIPaddressesintheirnameshavebeencreatedbyauserofOperationsManager.Youcan useeithertypeoftemplateinaplan. 3. Specifythenumberofcopiestoadd,thenclickAdd. ThelistofitemswillincludefoldercalledNewEntities.Youcanexpandthatfoldertoseetheseitemsyouhave added.Youcanaddotheritems,andthisfolderwillupdatetoshowthenewitems. 4. Whenyouhavefinishedaddingitemstotheplansload,closethedialogbox. ClickClosetoclosethedialogbox.Usethisoptionifyouwanttomakemorechangestotheplan,orifyouwantto savetheplanbeforeyourunit. ClickCloseandRuntoclosethedialogboxandruntheplanimmediately.
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ReplaceUsingTemplate
Selecttheitemsyouwanttochange,thenselectatemplatetoserveasamodelforwhatyouwillreplacethedevices with.Youcanalsochoosetocreateanewtemplateoreditanexistingtemplate(seeCreatingTemplatesonpage 124).
1. ChoosetheReplaceUsingTemplateaction. 2. Navigatethelistofitemstochoosewhichitemsyouwillchange.Youcanselectindividualitems,orgroupsof items. 3. Choosethetemplateyouwanttouse. 4. ClickReplace. ThelistofitemswillincludefoldercalledNewEntities.Youcanexpandthatfoldertoseethereplacement templatesyouhaveaddedtotheplan.Youcanreplaceotheritems,andthisfolderwillupdatetoshowthenew items. 5. Whenyouhavefinishedreplacingitemstotheplansload,closethedialogbox. ClickClosetoclosethedialogbox.Usethisoptionifyouwanttomakemorechangestotheplan,orifyouwant tosavetheplanbeforeyourunit. ClickCloseandRuntoclosethedialogboxandruntheplanimmediately.
Remove
Selecttheitemsyouwanttoremovefromyourenvironment.
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1. ChoosetheRemoveaction. 2. Navigatethelistofitemstochoosewhichitemsyouwillremove.Youcanselectindividualitems,orgroupsof items. 3. ClickRemove. 4. Whenyouhavefinishedremovingitemsintheplansload,closethedialogbox. ClickClosetoclosethedialogbox.Usethisoptionifyouwanttomakemorechangestotheplan,orifyouwantto savetheplanbeforeyourunit. ClickCloseandRuntoclosethedialogboxandruntheplanimmediately.
ChangeResourceUtilization
UsethistoseewhatwillhappeniftheVMsinyourenvironmentweretoconsumeadifferentamountofresources. Forexample,youcansetthescopeofyourplantoaproductioncluster,increasetheloadby20%,andrunaplan.This isthesameassaying,WhatwouldhappenifalltheVMsinmyproductionclustersawa20%increaseintheircon sumptionofhostmemoryandCPUcycles? ThisoptionisforVMs,only.SelecttheVMsyouwanttoreallocate,andraiseorlowertheresourceutilizationbyper centagepoints.
1. ChoosetheChangeResourceUtilizationaction. 2. NavigatethelistofVMstochoosewhichonesyouwillchange.YoucanselectindividualVMs,orgroupsofVMs. Ctrlclicktoselectmultipleitems. 3. ClickChangeLoad.
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4. WhenyouhavefinishedchangingVMsintheplansload,closethedialogbox. ClickClosetoclosethedialogbox.Usethisoptionifyouwanttomakemorechangestotheplan,orifyouwant tosavetheplanbeforeyourunit. ClickCloseandRuntoclosethedialogboxandruntheplanimmediately.
CreatingTemplates
Whenyouspecifytheloadforaplan,youcanusetemplatestodefinetheitemsyouwilladdtotheload. Tocreateanewtemplate: 1. ClicktheEditLoadicon( )toopentheModifyLoaddialogbox. 2. Selecteitherofthetemplateactions: AddUsingTemplate ReplaceUsingTemplate 3. Whenyouchooseatemplatetouse,scrollthedropdownlisttoselectAddNewTemplate. 4. SpecifyyourtemplatesettingsandclickCreateProfile. Toeditanexistingtemplate: 1. ClicktheEditLoadicon( )toopentheModifyLoaddialogbox. 2. Selecteitherofthetemplateactions: AddUsingTemplate ReplaceUsingTemplate 3. Chooseatemplatetouse. 4. ClicktheEditiconforthattemplate. Ifyouwanttodeletethetemplate,clicktheDeleteicon. NotethatOperationsManagerdiscoversVMtemplatesthathavebeencreatedontargethypervisors.Discovered templatesbeginwiththehypervisorIPaddressintheirnames.YoucannoteditordeletethesediscoveredVM templates. 5. ChangeyourtemplatesettingsandclickUpdateTemplate. Whenyoucreateanewtemplateoreditatemplate,theModifyLoaddialogboxexpandstodisplaythetemplateset tings.Thesettingsyoucanmakearedifferent,dependingonthetypeofitemthetemplateisfor.
TemplateSettingsforVMs
ThesesettingsidentifyaVMtype,andspecifytheresourcesthatVMtypewillconsume. ForVCPU,OperationsManagerassigns75%ofthephysicalCPUresourcestotheVM.Forexample,ifyouspecify1 VCPUforthisVMtype,OperationsManagerassigns75%capacityofaCPUonthemachinethathoststheVM.This ensuresthatthehostmachinehasCPUcapacitytoperforminfrastructuretasks. ForVMEMandVStorage,OperationsManagerassigns100%ofthephysicalresourcesthatyouspecifyhere.
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TemplateSettingsforPMs
ThesesettingsidentifyaPMtype,andspecifytheresourcesitcanprovide.ThePlannerusesthePriceentrytocalcu latecostsorsavingswhenaddingorremovinghostmachines.
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TemplateSettingsforDataStores
Thesesettingsidentifyatypeofdatastore,andspecifytheresourcesitcanprovide.
SettingAdvancedOptions
Foragivenplan,youcanmakethefollowingadvancedsettings: Utilizationonpage 126(forPhysicalHosts,DataStores,andDesiredState) VMConstraintsonpage 127 WorkloadPlacementonpage 128
Utilization
Utilizationspecifiesthepercentageofaphysicalresourcethatyouwanttomakeavailableinthegivenplan.By default,hostsanddatastoreshaveutilizationsetto100%.Foragivenplan,youcansettheutilizationtoalower value. Forexample,assumeyouhaveonedatastorethatyouwanttoshareevenlyfortwoclustersofVMs.Alsoassumethat youarecreatingaplanforoneofthoseclusters.Inthatcase,youcansetthedatastoresto50%utilization.Thissaves storageresourcesfortheotherclusterthatwillusethisstorage.
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Tosetutilization: 1. ClicktheAdvancedOptionsicon( 2. DisplaytheSetUtilizationtab. 3. Choosewhichtypeofdevicetomodify: SetMaxHostUtilization SetMaxStorageUtilization 4. Navigatethelisttoselectthedeviceyouwanttomodify. 5. Specifythepercentageyouwant,thenclickSetMaxLevel. )toopentheadvancedPlanningOptionsdialogbox.
VMConstraints
Bydefault,VMsareconstrainedtothecluster,networkgroup,orstoragegroupthattheirhostsbelongto.Whenyou runaplan,OperationsManagerdoesnotconsidermovingVMstophysicalhostsoutsideofthecurrentclusterifthey areconstrainedbycluster.ButifyoudisabletheClusterconstraintforaVM,thenPlannercanevaluatetheresultsof hostingthatVMonanyotherphysicalmachineinyourenvironment.IfthebestresultscomefromaddingthatVMto adifferentcluster,thenPlannerwillshowthatresult.
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Tosetconstraints: 1. ClicktheAdvancedOptionsicon( 2. DisplaytheVMConstraintstab. 3. NavigatethelisttoselecttheVMsyouwanttomodify. 4. Choosethetypesofconstraintstoset: All Cluster Network Storage 5. Specifywhethertoenableordisabletheconstraints. 6. ClickApply. )toopentheadvancedPlanningOptionsdialogbox.
WorkloadPlacement
InthistabyoucanenableordisableimportedplacementpoliciesorOperationsManagerplacementpoliciesforthe VMsinyourplan.Thetabshowstheworkloadplacementpoliciesthatarecurrentlydefinedforyourenvironment. YoucanalsoclickthePlusorMinusiconstocreatenewOperationsManagerplacementpoliciesfromthistab.For moreinformationaboutthesepoliciesandhowtomanagethem,seeWorkloadPlacementonpage 244onthePolicy view.
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ClickthePlusorMinusiconstocreateordeleteOperationsManagerplacementpolicies.
Tosetenableordisableplacementpolicies: 1. ClicktheAdvancedOptionsicon( )toopentheadvancedPlanningOptionsdialogbox. 2. DisplaytheWorkloadPlacementtab. 3. Navigatethelisttoselectthepoliciesyouwanttoenable,thenclickEnableRule.
HWManagement
Inthistabyoucanenable/disabletheprovisioningandsuspensionofhardware.Bydefault,whenyourunaplan OperationsManagercanprovisionorsuspendhostsandstoragewithinthatplan.ThismeansthatifOperationsMan agerseesthatyouwouldgetbetterresultsbyaddingorremovinghardware,theplanwillrecommendthatyouper formthoseactions,andtheplanwillreflecttheresultsyouwouldgetbyperformingthoseactions. Therearereasonstorunaplanwithhardwareprovisioningandsuspensiondisabled.Forexample,youmightwantto usetheplannertoseehowmuchworkloadyoucanaddtoyourcurrentenvironment.Todothatyouwould: Addworkloadtotheenvironment Disableprovisioningforhostsandstorage Runtheplanandreviewtheresults
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Thisisnotsimplylookingathowmuchmoreworkloadyoucanplaceonspecifichosts.Theplanwillredistributethe workloadtogetthebestpossibleresults.Afterrunningtheplanyoumayfindthatyoucanaddmoreworkloadthan youinitiallythoughtwithoutaddinganynewhardware.
Note:OperationsManagerincludessettingstospecifythedesiredstateinyourenvironment.Itisunusualtochange thesesettings,butifyouhavechangedthemfromthedefaults,youshouldnotdisablehardwareprovisioningor suspension.Ifyoudo,thenplanresultsmaynotbesatisfactory.Formoreinformationaboutthesesettings,see DesiredStateonpage 252.
WorkloadDistribution
WorkloadDistributionscenariosshowyoutheoptimaldistributionofVMsacrosshostsanddatastoresforthegiven plan.Theviewcomparesyourcurrentdistributionwithtargetresults.TheviewincludesanActionPlanthatdisplaysa listofactionsyoucantaketoachievethetargetresults. Toseedistributiondata,displaytheWorkloadDistributiontab.
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WorkloadDistribution
Toseedifferentviewsoftheworkloaddistributiondata,choosefromtheViewdropdownmenu.AWorkloadDistribu tionplandisplaysthefollowingviews: SummaryViewonpage 131 PhysicalMachineUtilizationonpage 132 StorageUtilizationonpage 132 PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationDataonpage 133
SummaryView
Thisviewprovidesanoverviewofthecurrentdistributionandtargetresults. TheSummarypanechartsthecurrentresults.Youcanviewchartsforthedifferentresourcetypes(utilizationindex, memory,CPUutilization,input/output,networkutilization,andVMsperhost).Thetargetresultsdisplayasagreen plot.Theplotislaidoverabarchartofthecurrentresourcedistribution.Ifabarisgrayed,thatmeansthePlanner recommendsyoususpendthatdevice.Ifthechartshowsnobartocorrespondwithatargetresultdatapoint,this indicatesanewdevicetobeaddedinthetargetresults. ThePlanSummarypaneshowsthecurrenttargetnumbersofVMsandhosts.Itincludesatotalsavings/costatthetop ofthepane.Thisvalueiscalculatedfromthecostsyouassigntoresources.Forexample,youcanassignacostwhen youcreateahosttemplate(seeCreatingTemplatesonpage 124). ThisviewalsoincludesaSummaryGrid,thatdescribesthecurrentlyloadedplan.Forexample,youcanseethescope ofthisplan,orthedateforthebaselinedata.(Formoreinformation,seeCreatingPlansonpage 111).
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PhysicalMachineUtilization
Thisviewfocusesonthephysicalmachinesinyourenvironment.ItshowschartsforthecurrentPMutilization,com paredwiththetargetutilization.Youcanhoveroverdatapointstodisplaytooltips.
StorageUtilization
Thisviewfocusesonthedatastoresinyourenvironment.Itshowschartsforthecurrentstorageutilization,compared withthetargetutilization.Youcanhoveroverdatapointstodisplaytooltips.
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PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationData
Thisviewprovidesdatagridsofcurrentandtargetutilizationdistributionforhostsanddatastores.
WorkloadProjection
WorkloadProjectionestimatestheVMconsumptionofVCPUandVMemresource,projectedtoagiventimeinthe future.ThePlannerusespastutilizationdatatomakeitscalculations.Torunaprojection,youprovidethefollowing: Plan YouchoosetheplantouseandloaditintotheWorkloadProjection.Ifyouuseanewandunnamedplan,the Plannercalculatesaprojectionforyourcurrentenvironment. Historicaldaterange IntheSummaryView,youspecifythestartandenddatesforthedatathatyouwantthePlannertousewhen calculatingtheprojection. Projectionperiod Howmanydays,weeks,ormonthsintothefutureyouwanttoextendtheprojection.
Toseeprojectiondata,displaytheWorkloadProjectiontab.
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Afteryourunaprojection,youcandisplaydifferentviewstoseetheresultsindetail.Toseedifferentviewsofthe workloadprojectiondata,choosefromtheViewdropdownmenu.
AWorkloadDistributionplandisplaysthefollowingviews: SummaryViewonpage 134(Usethistospecifyhistoricaldatesandprojectionperiod) PhysicalMachineUtilizationonpage 132 StorageUtilizationonpage 137 PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationDataonpage 137
SummaryView
TheSummaryviewservestwopurposes: Specifytheprojectionparameters Displayanoverviewofprojectionresults
WhenyoufirstdisplaytheWorkloadProjectiontab,theSummaryViewisreadyforyoutoprovideprojectionparam eters.
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WorkloadProjection
Tospecifytheprojectionparameters,makeyoursettingsintheUtilizationChart:
Theprojectionparametersdetermine: TherangeoftimefortheprojectionsbaseTheprojectionwillperformalinearinterpolationbasedonhistorical workloaddata.Asyousetatimerange,thedialogboxchartstheCPUandmemorystatisticsforthatrange. Period:howfarintothefuturetoprojecttheworkloadUsingthebasetimerange,thePlannerwillprojectthe workloadthisfarintothefuture.
Asyoudragtosetthetimerange,thechartupdatestoshowyouthehistoricalvalues.Whenyouaresatisfiedwith yoursettings,clickRun. Aftertheprojectionruns,theSummaryViewupdatestoshowyoutheresults:
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TheUtilizationChartshowstheprojectedvaluesforCPUandmemoryutilization.Ifyouwanttoseedifferentresults, youcanchangetheprojectionparameters(historicalrangeorprojectionperiod)andruntheprojectionagain. Intheaboveimage,theprojectionbeginswheretheMemoryandCPUplotschangecolors.Forexample,theMemory plotchangesfromgreentoblue. ThePlanSummarypaneshowsthecurrenttargetnumbersofVMsandhosts.Itincludesatotalsavings/costatthe topofthepane.Thisvalueiscalculatedfromthecostsyouassigntoresources.Forexample,youcanassignacost whenyoucreateahosttemplate(seeCreatingTemplatesonpage 124). ThisviewalsoincludesaSummaryGrid,thatdescribesthecurrentlyloadedplan.Forexample,youcanseethescope ofthisplan,orthedateforthebaselinedata.(Formoreinformation,seeCreatingPlansonpage 111).
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StorageUtilization
HardwareReplace
HardwareReplacescenarioscalculatetheoptimalperformanceyoucanachieveafterreplacingexistingPMsordata storeswithotherequipment.TocreateanewHardwareReplacescenario,youprovidethefollowing: Scope Yousetthescopetodeterminewhichphysicaldevicestheplanwillrunagainst.Forexample,youcanselecta singlecluster,oraspecificdatacenter.Theplanwillconsideronlyonthephysicaldevicesthatarewithinthe
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specifiedscope. Hardwaretype Asingleplancancalculatereplacementresultsforhosts,fordatastores,orboth. Hardwaretemplate Templatesspecifythecapacityandcostofthereplacementhardware.Youcanuseexistingtemplates,orcreate andsaveyourown. Hardwaretoreplace Afterchoosingthehardwaretemplate,youthenchoosethehardwareyouwanttoreplace.Youchoosefrom devicesthatarewithintheplansscope.Forexample,ifthecurrentscopeincludesasetof10hostsandtwodata stores,youcanchoosetoreplaceanyofthosedeviceswithatemplateddevice.
Toseeprojectiondata,displaytheHardwareReplacetab.
AfteryourunaHardwareReplaceplan,youcandisplaydifferentviewstoseetheresultsindetail.
AHardwareReplaceplandisplaysthefollowingviews: SummaryViewonpage 142(Usethistospecifyhistoricaldatesandprojectionperiod) PhysicalMachineUtilizationonpage 143 StorageUtilizationonpage 144 PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationDataonpage 144
DefiningReplaceParameters
Toplanhardwarereplacement,youmustspecifywhichhardwareyouwillreplace,andwhatyouwillreplaceitwith. Whenyoucreatetheplanscenario,youcanmakethesamesettingsthatyoumakeforanyotherplan.Forexample, youcansetthebaselinetopastconditions,oryoucanaddmoreVMstotheworkload.Formoreinformation,seeCre atingPlansonpage 111. Thefollowingsectionsdescribesettingsyoumakethatarespecialforhardwarereplacement:
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Scopeonpage 139(Yousetscopeforanyplan,buttheeffectisslightlydifferentforhardwarereplacement.) HardwareTypeonpage 139 Templateonpage 140 HardwaretobeReplacedonpage 140
Scope
Planscopedetermineswhichdevicesintheenvironmentwillbeaffectedbytheplan.Forexample,ifyousetthe scopetoacluster,thenreplacementplanningwillonlyaffectthephysicaldevicesinthatcluster.Notethatyoucanset thescopetogroupsofVMsortoVirtualDataCenters.Inthiscase,hardwarereplacementwillaffectonlythephysical machinesthatprovideresourcestothesevirtualentities. Tosetthecurrentplansscope,clicktheScopeicon( ).ThisopenstheDefineUserScopedialogboxwhere youcannavigatetheinventorytreeandsettheplanscope.Formoreinformation,seeSettingPlanScopeonpage 113.
HardwareType
HardwareReplaceplanssupportHostsandDataStores.Thetypeyouchoosedetermineswhichtemplatesyoucan select,andwhichhardwareyoucanreplace.
Oneplanscenariocanbedevotedtoreplacinghostsorstorage,oryoucandefineasinglescenariothatreplacesboth hostsanddatastores.
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Template
Thetemplateyouchoosedescribesthenewhardwareforyourplan.OperationsManagershipswithpredefinedtem plates,andyoucancreateyourowntemplatestodescribespecifichardwarethatyouhaveinmind. Tocreateanewtemplate,selectAddNewTemplate,andthenclickEditTemplate.Notethatasyoudefineyourown templates,theyarestoredwithOperationsManagerinstallation,andareavailabletoanybodyelsewhousesthe planneronthesameinstallation. Thetemplatesyouuseherearealsoavailablewhenspecifyingworkloadsforaplanningscenario.Formoreinforma tion,seeCreatingTemplatesonpage 124. Youcanmakethefollowingsettingsinatemplate: UserInformation TemplateName Vendor Description Price:OperationsManagerusesthispricetocalculatereplacementcostsorsavings CapacityData:ValuesOperationsManagerusestocalculatecapacityandutilization CPUCoresandSpeed Memory NetworkThroughput IOThroughput
Whenyourunaplan,OperationsManagerusesthetemplatespricingandcapacitydatatocalculatetheplanresults. Forexample,ifyoureplaceyourcurrenthostswithlesspowerfulmodelstoaddressunderutilization,Operations Managerwillusethetemplatetorecalculatetheoptimalworkloaddistribution.Youmightseethatworkloadismore evenlydistributedacrossthesmallermachines,givingyouasavinginactualcost.
HardwaretobeReplaced
Onceyouhavespecifiedtheplanscope,hardwaretype,andthetemplateyouwantforthescenario,youcanspecify whichhardwareyouwilltargetforreplacement.Youcanspecifyindividualdevices,oryoucanselectgroupsof devicestoreplace.
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HardwareReplace
Whenyouexpanditemsinthisdialogbox,thephysicaldevicesyoucanselectarelimitedbythescopeyouhavesetfor thisscenario.Forexample,assumeyouselectedaclusterofVMsthatarerestrictedtoPMsinCluster1.Inthatcase, thenyoubrowseforhoststoreplace,youwillonlyseethehostsinthatcluster. Afteryouselectthehardwaretoreplace,OperationsManagercommitsyourparameterstothecurrentscenario.The PlanModificationLogshowsthereplaceactionsyouhavespecifiedforthisscenario.
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OnceyouhavemadesettingsforHost,youcanthenaddinsettingstoreplacedatastoresaswell. Afteryouhavemadethesettingsyouwant,youcanthenruntheplan,saveit,orstartanewplantodiscardyour changes.
SummaryView
Thisviewprovidesanoverviewofthecurrenthardware,andthetargethardwarereplaceresults. TheSummarypanechartstheresults.Youcanviewchartsforthedifferentresourcetypes(utilizationindex,memory, CPUutilization,input/output,networkutilization,andVMsperhost).Thetargetresultsdisplayasagreenplot.The plotislaidoverabarchartofthecurrentresourcedistribution. AssumeaHardwareReplacescenariothatwillreplacethreeoffivehosts.Inthefigurebelow,noticethatthetarget plotislaidoverthetwohoststhatarenotreplaced.Thetargetplotsalowerutilizationthanthehostscurrently exhibit.Theotherthreedatapointsforthetargetshowutilizationforthereplacementhosts.Ontheright,thechart showsbarsforthereplacedhostssoyoucancomparetargettocurrentvalues. ThePlanSummarypaneshowsthecurrenttargetnumbersofVMsandhosts.Itincludesatotalsavings/costatthe topofthepane.Thisvalueiscalculatedfromthecostsyouassigntoresources.Forexample,youcanassignacost whenyoucreateahosttemplate(seeCreatingTemplatesonpage 124andTemplateonpage 140). ThisviewalsoincludesaSummaryGrid,thatdescribesthecurrentlyloadedplan.Forexample,youcanseethescope ofthisplan,orthedateforthebaselinedata.(Formoreinformation,seeCreatingPlansonpage 111).
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RecommendedActions
Plannerlistsactionsyoucanperformtoachievethetargetutilizationmetrics.Theserecommendationscanrange fromaddingmorestorageorphysicalmachinestoyourenvironment,ormovingorchangingtheconfigurationofvir tualmachines.Eachactionincludesatooltipthatdisplaysafulldescriptionofthesuggestedaction. OperationsManagerprovidesthefollowingcategoriesofsuggestions: PreventionActionsthatpreventtheenvironmentfromdriftingoutoftheOptimalOperatingZone. PerformanceAssuranceActionsthatdirectlyaddressriskstoQoS.
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RecommendedActions
ComplianceActionsthataddressviolationsofplacementpolicies,ormisconfigurationofVMs.Forexample,a VMmightbeconfiguredtoaccessanetworkthatisnotavailableinitscurrentcluster.Insuchcases,Operations Manageridentifiestheviolationandrecommendsactionsthatbringtheentitybackintocompliance. EfficiencyImprovementActionsthatconsolidateoperationsandfreeupresources.
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TheOptimizeranalyzesthecurrentstatusofyourinfrastructure,lookingforutilizationpatternsthatindicateopportu nitiestoachieveoptimalperformanceandreduceoperationalrisk.Usingthisanalysis,itdisplaysutilizationchartsand tablesinaSummarypanel.Thesesummariesshowmetricsforyourcurrentconfiguration,aswellastargetmetrics themetricsyoucanachievebyperformingtherecommendedactionstooptimizesystemdeployment. BeneaththeSummarypanel,OperationsManagershowsaToDolistofrecommendedactions(seeToDoListsMain tainingQoSonpage 52formoreinformation). YoucanusetheOptimizertoanalyzeandproactivelyaddressproblemsrelatedtoworkloadandresourcedistribution amongphysicalhostsandstoragedevices.Further,Optimizercanautomaticallyperformmostrecommendedactions thatdonotincludechangestophysicalconfigurationsofhostsorstorage. Onceyouexecutearecommendedaction,theenvironmentchanges.OperationsManagerperformsitsanalysisagain andpresentsfurtheractionsyoucanperformtooptimizeyourdeployment.Inthisway,youcaniterativelychange yourconfigurationandworkloaddistributiontoimproveoverallperformance. AsOperationsManagermonitorsandanalyzesyourenvironment,itusesspecifiedthresholdstoidentifyrisksand opportunitiesthatitwillconsiderforplanningandoptimization.YouspecifythesethresholdsinthePolicyview.For moreinformation,seeAnalysisonpage 246.
OptimizerUserInterface
TheOptimizeviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: NavigationPanelOptimizeViewonpage 147Liststhephysicaldevicesinyourinventory.Usethistosetthe scopeoftheviewsdisplay. UtilizationSummaryPanelonpage 147Chartsandtablesthatshowutilizationmetricsforthecurrent deployment,andtargetmetricsthatyoucanachievebyresolvingtheidentifiedproblems. ToDoPanelonpage 149Actionsyoucantaketoachievethetargetresults.
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NavigationPanelOptimizeView
ForOptimizer,theNavigationPanellimitsthescopeofthedataitdisplays.Forexample,ifyouselectSummaryinthe Inventorytree,itshowsdataforallthephysicalandvirtualdevicesinyourinventory.IfyouselectPhysicalMachines, thenitonlyshowsdataforphysicalmachines. YoucanalsousetheGroupstreetofocusonspecificsegmentsofyourenvironment.Forexample,youcanuseapre definedgrouptofocusonlyonthephysicalmachinesinyourproductionenvironment.Youcanalsousecustom groupstosetyourownscope.(Formoreinformationaboutgroups,seeGroupManagementonpage 239).
UtilizationSummaryPanel
TheSummarypanelshowsthecurrentandtargetmetricsforyourinventory.Thescopeofdisplayforthispanel changesdependingontheselectionsyoumakeintheNavigationpanel.
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UtilizationCharts
Thesebarchartsdisplayutilizationmetricsforphysicalmachinesandstoragedevices.Toseemoreinformationabout eachplot,hoveroverabartodisplayitstooltip.Thechartlegendshowswhichmetricsareplottedinthechart.Inthe followingfiguresyoucanseechartsfortargetmetrics.
OptimizerUtilizationCharts
CustomizingCharts
YoucanspecifywhetherthechartshowsutilizationmetricsorUtilizationIndex.Forchartsthatshowutilizationmet rics,youcanspecifywhichmetricsthechartshows. Tocustomizeachart,clickitsCustomizebuttonandmakesettingsinthedialogboxthatappears.Formoreinforma tion,seeStandardPanelControlsonpage 38.
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UtilizationGrids
Utilizationgridspresentcurrentandtargetmetricsintabularform.Youcanseetheactualvalues,andsortthetables byagivenmetric.Forexample,thefollowingfigureshowstargetmetricssortedbyUtilizationIndex.
AnOptimizerUtilizationTable
ToDoPanel
Thispaneldisplaysactionsyoucanexecutetomaintainoptimaloperatingconditions.Youcantogglethepanel betweenaToDolistandalistofcurrentriskstoserviceperformance.ForacompletedescriptionofToDopanels,see ToDoListsMaintainingQoSonpage 52.Thiswillshowyouhowto:
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ViewrecommendedactionsorriskstoQoSandefficiencyopportunities Executerecommendedactions Understandactionandriskcategories
NotethatasyoumakeselectionsintheNavigationpanel,theToDolistchangestoshowactionsfortheitemsyou select.
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TheInventoryView
TheInventoryViewiswhereyougotoobservethefullvirtualinfrastructure.Hereyoucanseethehealthofyour entirevirtualenvironmentfromasingleview.Youcanidentifybottlenecksandotherresourceandperformance anomalies,andassessyouroverallworkloaddistribution.Youcanalsoseerecommendedactionstoimproveperfor manceinyourenvironment,anddirectOperationsManagertoexecutevariousactions. Ifyourcurrentlicensingsupportstheretentionofhistoricaldata,panelsintheInventoryViewcanshowupto48days ofutilizationonspecificdevices.Formoreinformation,seeUtilizationHistoryonpage 50. IntheInventoryView,theNavigationpanelshowsalltheresources,services,andcommoditiesOperationsManager hasdiscoveredforyourenvironment.Asyoubrowsethenavigationtree,theinformationpanelsdisplaychartsand tablestodescribetheitemsyouselect.
InventoryView
ChartpanelsintheInventoryviewincludetoolsyoucanuseto:
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Maximize/minimize Customizedisplay ExportcontenttoXML Displayalegend Displaytooltips
Formoreinformation,seeStandardPanelControlsonpage 38. Chartpanelscandisplayhistoricaldata.Formoreinformation,seeUtilizationHistoryonpage 50. TheInventoryviewincludesToDoliststhatshowrecommendedactions.Formoreinformation,seeToDoLists MaintainingQoSonpage 52. ThefollowingsectionsdescribetheinformationyouseeasyouselectthedifferentNavigationitems: Summaryonpage 152 VirtualApplicationsonpage 155 Applicationsonpage 157 VirtualMachinesonpage 160 PhysicalMachinesonpage 165 Storageonpage 167 DiskArraysonpage 169 StorageControllersonpage 172 IOModulesonpage 174 FabricInterconnectsonpage 177 Datacentersonpage 179 ProviderVirtualDatacentersonpage 181 OrganizationVirtualDatacentersonpage 184
Summary
WhenyouselectSummaryintheInventorytree,theInventoryViewdisplaysitssummarypanels.Thesepanelsshow summariesofyourApplications,VirtualMachines,PhysicalMachines,andDataStorestogiveyouanoverviewofthe environmentsstatus. Eachofthesepanelsshowsaheatmapfortheinventoryitemsitcharts.Foreachitemthepanelshowsthestatusofits resourcesandtheitemsutilizationIndex.Thestatusindicatorsarecolorcoded,asfollows:
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Summary
AsOperationsManagermonitorsandanalyzesyourenvironment,itusesspecifiedconstraintstoidentifythestatusof aresource.YouspecifytheseconstraintsinthePolicyview.Changestothesesettingscanaffectthestatusdisplayin thesummarypanels.Formoreinformationaboutpolicysettings,seePolicyCategoriesonpage 239. Youcangetadditionalinformationfortheitemsinthesepanelsasfollows: Todisplaytooltipsthatshowactualvalues,hoverthemouseoverthecoloredindicators Todisplayachartthatshowsdetailsaboutaspecificitem,clickthecoloredindicator Todisplayaseparateviewforanitem,clicktheitemsname TodisplaytheRisks/Opportunitiesforaspecificitem,clickitsseverityicon
Inadditiontoinformationpanels,theSummarydisplayincludesaToDopanelThispaneltogglesbetweenaToDo listofrecommendedactionsandalistofrisksandefficiencyopportunities.Youcanexecutetherecommended actionstomaintainoptimalperformanceinyourenvironment.Therisks/opportunitiesdescribetheissuesthatdrive actionrecommendations.Formoreinformation,seeToDoListsMaintainingQoSonpage 52.
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SummaryReports
TolaunchareportfromtheInventoryview,clicktheReportsiconnexttothegivenentryintheNavigationtree.
LaunchingaSummaryReport
Youcanlaunchareportforalltheitemsinatreeitem,oryoucanexpandtheitemandlaunchareportforasingle item.Forexample,youcanlaunchareportforallvirtualmachinesonahost,oryoucanexpandthetreeandlauncha reportforasinglevirtualmachine. Formoreinformationaboutreporting,seeReportsonpage 187.
SeverityIconsinSummaryPanels
Thepanelsinthesummaryviewshowaseverityiconforeachentry.YoucanclicktheiconstodisplaytheRisks/ OpportunitiesLogtohelptrackissuesforthegivenitem.Forinformationaboutexecutingrecommendedactionsand usingtheproblemlog,seeToDoListsMaintainingQoSonpage 52.
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ProblemsPerDevice
Note:TheheatmapdoesnotdirectlycorrespondwiththeexistenceofriskstoQoS.Theheatmapmightshowred,but OperationsManagerdoesntshowarisk.Conversely,theheatmapmightshowgreensandblues,butOperations Managerrecognizesariskandacorrectiveactiontotake.Forexample,ifthereisnofixforoverconsumptioninthe heatmap,OperationsManagerdoesnotlisttherisk.Ontheotherhand,ifOperationsManagerrecognizesafixthat canimproveutilizationforadevice,itliststhatasariskoropportunity.
VirtualApplications
Avirtualapplicationisthelogicalapplicationserver(sometimescalledavserver)thataloadbalancerusestomarshal accesstoloadbalancedapplications.Forafulldefinition,seeVirtualApplicationsonpage 6inIntroducingOperations Manageronpage 2. Eachvirtualapplicationhasoneormorerunningapplicationsboundtoit.Theloadbalancerpassesrequeststothese boundapplications.NotethatOperationsManagerdiscoversrunningapplications,butyoumustbindthesetothevir tualapplicationsthatareinaloadbalanceraspartofyourloadbalancerconfiguration.Formoreinformationabout applicationsandapplicationdiscovery,seeApplicationsonpage 157andApplicationDiscoveryonpage 262. WhenyouselectVirtualApplicationsintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: VirtualApplicationsUtilizationChart Thepercentageofallocatedtransactioncapacitythevirtualapplicationsareusing.Toseeahistoryofusagefora virtualapplication,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Utilizationindexshowsa measureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications,themore evenlydistributedtheirloads.
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VirtualApplicationsUtilizationTrend Thepercentageofmaximumandaveragetransactionsovertime. ToDolistRecommendedactionsforVirtualApplications UsageforVirtualApplications Atabulardisplayofthepercentageoftransactioncapacityforeachvirtualapplication.
VirtualApplicationsSummary
IntheInventorytree,theApplicationsbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
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VirtualApplicationsHierarchy
UnderneathVirtualApplications,thelistshowstheapplicationservicetypes.Theseservicetypesaredefinedonthe loadbalancerOperationsManagerdiscoverstheservicetypesthrougheachloadbalancerthatisregisteredasa target.Foreachservicetype,thepanelsshowchartsforthecurrentservicetype: VirtualApplicationsUtilizationChart Thepercentageoftransactioncapacityusedbyvirtualapplicationsofthisservicetype.Toseeahistoryofusage, clicktheassociatedbar. VirtualApplicationsUtilizationTrend Thepercentageofmaximumandaveragetransactionsovertime. VirtualApplicationsToDolist UsageforVirtualApplications Atabulardisplayofthepercentageoftransactioncapacityforvirtualapplicationsofthisservicetype.
WhenyouexpandaServiceTypeitem,theInventorytreeliststheindividualvirtualapplicationswithinthatservice type.Eachvirtualapplicationconsumestherunningapplicationsthataremanagedbytheloadbalancer.
Applications
OperationsManagerdiscoversandmonitorsapplicationsrunningonVMsinyourenvironment.Bydefault,Operations Managerdiscoversthefollowingapplications:
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MicrosoftActiveDirectoryservices MicrosoftInternetInformationServices CitrixXenDesktop VMWareView
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MicrosoftSQLServer MicrosoftSharepointServer TheresourcesthatOperationsManagerhasnotassignedtoanyspecificapplication(for moreinformation,seeGuestLoadonpage 160)
Inaddition,yourinstallationofOperationsManagermightbeconfiguredtodiscoverotherapplicationsrunningin yourenvironment.Formoreinformation,seeApplicationDiscoveryonpage 262.
ApplicationsSummary
WhenyouselectApplicationsoranapplicationsgroupintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowing panels: ApplicationsUtilizationChart ThepercentageofVMEM,VCPUandtransactioncapacitytheapplicationsareusing.Toseeahistoryofusagefor agivenmetric,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. ApplicationsUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime.Clicktheradiobuttonstochoosewhichstatisticstoshowinthe chart.Youcanshowaveragesforallresources,oraverageandmaxforindividualresources. ToDolistRecommendedActionsforApplications UsageforApplications AtabulardisplayofVCPUandVMEMusagefortheVMsthatsupportyourapplications.
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IntheInventorytree,theApplicationsbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
ApplicationsHierarchy
WhenyouexpandanApplicationsitem,theInventorytreelistsapplicationgroupsandindividualapplicationswithin eachgroup.Ifyouselectanapplicationgroup,theviewdisplaysasetofpanelsshowinginformationaboutallthe applicationsinthatgroup.Ifyouselectanindividualapplication,theviewdisplaysasetofpanelsdevotedtothespe cificapplication. Thesepanelsshow: ApplicationUtilizationChart ThepercentageofVMEM,VCPUandtransactioncapacitytheapplicationuses. ApplicationUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertimeforthisapplication.Clicktheradiobuttonstochoosewhichstatistics toshowinthechart.Youcanshowaveragesforallresources,oraverageandmaxforindividualresources. RecommendedActionsfortheApplication UsagefortheApplication AtabulardisplayofVCPUandVMEMusagefortheVMsthatsupportyourapplications.
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Panelsforanindividualapplication
GuestLoad
TheApps_GuestLoaditemisaspecialentryintheApplicationshierarchy.ThisitemtrackstheresourcesthatOpera tionsManagerhasnotassignedtoanyspecificapplication.Thiscanoccurforthefollowingreasons: YoudonothavethelicensesrequiredtosupportApplicationmonitoringInthiscase,OperationsManagerlistsall theconsumedVMresourcesintheApps_GuestLoadentrythisistheonlyentryunderApplications. OperationsManagerfailstodiscoversomeapplicationsInthiscase,OperationsManagerdisplaysentriesforthe applicationsithasdiscovered,andliststheVMresourcesthatarenotaccountedforunderApps_GuestLoad. VMresourcesaredevotedtoinfrastructure,andnotpartofanyapplicationOperationsManagerliststhese resourcesunderApps_GuestLoad,andprovidesentriesfortheapplicationsithasdiscovered.
VirtualMachines
WhenyouselectVirtualMachinesintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysinformationaboutvirtual machines,groupedbythephysicalmachinestheyrunon.TheviewlistsVMsinthesegroupsbecausethenumberof VMsinyourenvironmentcanbeverylarge.Groupingthembytheirphysicalmachinesmakestheamountofdatain eachpaneleasiertoviewandunderstand. ForeachVirtualMachinesitem(thecollectionofVMsonahost),theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels:
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VirtualMachines
VirtualMachinesUtilizationChart ThepercentageofCPUandmemorycapacityusedbygroupsofvirtualmachines.Toseeahistoryofusagefora group,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. VirtualMachinesUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime.ClicktheradiobuttonstoshowCPUormemorystatistics. RecommendedactionsforVirtualMachines UsageforVirtualMachines AtabulardisplayofusageofresourcessuchasCPUandmemoryfortheVMsinyourenvironment.
VirtualMachines
IntheInventorytree,theVirtualMachinesbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
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VirtualMachinesHierarchy
WhenyouexpandtheVirtualMachinesitem,theIndextreeliststheindividualVMGroupsbythenamesoftheir physicalmachines.IfyouselectanindividualVMgroup,theviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollowingfig ure.NotethattheUtilizationbarchartshowsbarsforeachVMinthegroup.
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VirtualMachinesOneGroupofVMs
WhenyouexpandaVMgroup,theIndextreeliststheindividualVMs.IfyouselectanindividualVM,theviewdisplays asetofpanelssimilartothefollowing.
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TheDataStoreUtilizationpanelshowsmetricsfortheutilizationofthedatastoresthatareavailabletothisVM. Beneaththat,thePhysicalMachineUtilizationpanelshowstheVMsresourceutilizationonthehostingPM,including CPU,memoryandCPUreadyqueueutilization. TheVirtualMachineConsumptionpanelshowsmetricsfortheutilizationofphysicalresourcesbytheselectedVM. ThetitlebarofthechartshowstheVMname.YoucanseethenameofthatVMsphysicalhostintheNavigationTree. Thetableliststheutilizationofeachresource,comparedtotheoverallcapacityonthephysicalmachine.Nexttothe utilizationpercentcolumn,thetableliststheactualresourceusedandthefullavailablecapacity,inthefollowing unitsofmeasurement: BallooningKbytes CPUMHz CPUReadyQueuesmsofwaittime IOThroughputKbytes/sec IOPSStorageaccessoperationspersecond Latencyms(milliseconds) MemoryKbytes NetThroughputKbytes/sec StorageAmountKbytes SwappingKbytes
Formorecompletedescriptionsoftheseresourcesandtheirmeasurement,seeResourceDescriptionsonpage 27. FromtheNavigationTreeyoucanexpandeachVMtoshowthefollowing: ComposedOf Consumes
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PhysicalMachines
WhenyouselectPhysicalMachinesintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: PhysicalMachinesUtilizationChart ThepercentageofphysicalmachineCPUandmemorycommoditiesthatareusedwithinyourenvironment.Tosee ahistoryofusagepermachine,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. PhysicalMachinesUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime.Clicktheradiobuttonstoshowmemory,CPU,IO,ornetwork throughputstatistics. RecommendedactionsforPhysicalMachines UsageforPhysicalMachines Atabulardisplayofresourceusageforthephysicalmachinesinyourenvironment.
PhysicalMachines
IntheInventorytree,thePhysicalMachinesbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
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PhysicalMachinesHierarchy
WhenyouexpandthePhysicalMachinesitem,theInventorytreeliststheindividualphysicalmachinesinyourenvi ronment.Ifyouselectanindividualmachine,theviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollowing.
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ThephysicalmachineResourcespanelshowsmetricsfortheconsumptionofphysicalresourcesbythehostedVMs. Thetableliststheutilizationofeachresource,comparedtotheoverallcapacityonthephysicalmachine,inthefol lowingunitsofmeasurement: BallooningKbytes CPUMHz CPUReadyQueuesmsofwaittime IOThroughputKbytes/sec IOPSStorageaccessoperationspersecond Latencyms(milliseconds) MemoryKbytes NetThroughputKbytes/sec StorageAmountKbytes SwappingKbytes
Formorecompletedescriptionsoftheseresourcesandtheirmeasurement,seeResourceDescriptionsonpage 27. Youcanexpandeachphysicalmachinetoshowthefollowing: ComposedOf Consumes Hosts
Storage
TheStorageitemshowsstatisticsforstoragethatisaccessedbythevirtualinfrastructure.WhenyouselectStoragein theInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: StorageUtilizationChart ThepercentageofstorageamountandstorageIOPScapacitythatareusedintheenvironment.Toseeahistoryof usageperstoragedevice,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. StorageUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime. RecommendedactionsforStorage UsageforStorage AtabulardisplayofstorageamountandstorageIOPSandotherusageforthestoragedevicesinyour environment.
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IntheInventorytree,theStoragebranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
StorageHierarchy
WhenyouexpandtheStorageentry,theInventorytreeliststheindividualdatastoresinyourenvironment.Ifyou selectanindividualdatastore,theInventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollowing.
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DataStoresIndividualDataStore
Whenyouexpandadatastoreitem,theviewshowsthefollowing: Consumes Hosts
DiskArrays
TheDiskArraysitemshowsstatisticsforphysicalstoragevolumesthataremanagedbyadiskarray.Whenyouselect DiskArraysintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: DiskArrayUtilizationChart Thepercentageofphysicalstorage,IOPScapacity,andLatencycapacitythatareusedintheenvironment.These panelsalsoshowStorageProvisionedThepercentageofstoragethatisprovisionedonthearray,includingthin provisioningandotheroptimizations.Toseeahistoryofusageperstoragedevice,clicktheassociatedbar. .Notethatutilizationindex Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. DiskArrayUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime. RecommendedactionsforDiskArrays UsageforDiskArrays AtabulardisplayofstorageamountandstorageIOPSandotherusageforthevolumesinthediskarrays.
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IntheInventorytree,theDiskArraysbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
DiskArrayHierarchy
WhenyouexpandtheDiskArraysentry,theInventorytreeliststheindividualdiskarraysinyourenvironment.Ifyou selectanindividualdiskarray,theInventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollowing.
DiskArrays
DiskArraysIndividualDiskArray
WhenyouexpandanindividualDiskArrayentry,theinventorytreeliststhediskvolumesinthatdiskarray.Ifyou selectanindividualvolume,theinventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollowing.
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Whenyouexpandavolumeitem,theviewshowsthefollowing: Consumes Hosts
StorageControllers
TheStorageControllersitemshowsstatisticsforthestoragecontrollersthatmanagediskarraysinyourenvironment. WhenyouselectStorageControllersintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: StorageControllerUtilization Thepercentageofstorage,LatencycapacityandCPUcapacitythatareusedintheenvironment,overtime.Tosee ahistoryofusageperstoragecontroller,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. StorageControllerUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime. RecommendedactionsforStorageControllers UsageforStorageControllers AtabulardisplayofstorageamountandstorageIOPSandotherusageforthevolumesinthediskarrays.
StorageControllers
IntheInventorytree,theStorageControllersbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
StorageControllers
StorageControllerHierarchy
WhenyouexpandtheStorageControllersentry,theInventorytreeliststheindividualstoragecontrollersinyourenvi ronment.Ifyouselectanindividualstoragecontroller,theInventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollow ing.
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Whenyouexpandadatastoreitem,theviewshowsthefollowing: ComposedOf Hosts
IOModules
TheIOModulesitemshowsstatisticsfortheswitchesthatsupportstoragecontrollersinyourenvironment.When youselectIOModulesintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: SwitchesIOModulesByUI Thepercentageofstorage,LatencycapacityandCPUcapacitythatareusedintheenvironment,overtime.Tosee ahistoryofusageperswitch,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. SwitchUtilizationIOModules Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime. RecommendedactionsforIOModules UsageforIOModules AtabulardisplayofstorageamountandstorageIOPSandotherusageforthevolumesinthediskarrays.
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IOModules
IntheInventorytree,theIOModulesbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
IOModuleHierarchy
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WhenyouexpandtheIOModulesentry,theInventorytreeliststheindividualswitchesinyourenvironment.Ifyou selectanindividualswitch,theInventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollowing.
IOModulesIndividualSwitch
WhenyouexpandaSwitchentry,theinventorytreelistseachIOModulechassisinthatswitch.Ifyouselectanindi vidualchassis,theinventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollowing.
IOModulesIndividualchassis
Whenyouexpandachassisitem,theviewshowsthefollowing:
FabricInterconnects
Consumes
FabricInterconnects
TheFabricInterconnectsitemshowsstatisticsfortheinterconnectsthatconnectthenetworktostoragefabricsin yourenvironment.WhenyouselectFabricInterconnectsintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollow ingpanels: SwitchesFabricInterconnectsByUI ThepercentageofNetworkcapacitythatisusedintheenvironment,overtime.Toseeahistoryofusageper switch,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. SwitchUtilizationFabricInterconnects Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime. RecommendedactionsforFabricInterconnects UsageforFabricInterconnects AtabulardisplayofstorageamountandstorageIOPSandotherusageforthevolumesinthediskarrays.
FabricInterconnects
IntheInventorytree,theFabricInterconnectsbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
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FabricInterconnectsHierarchy
WhenyouexpandtheFabricInterconnectsentry,theInventorytreeliststheindividualswitchpairsinyourenviron mentthatserveasfabricinterconnects.Ifyouselectanindividualswitchpair,theInventoryviewdisplaysasetofpan elssimilartothefollowing.
FabricInterconnectsIndividualSwitchPair
Whenyouexpandanindividualswitchpair,theinventorytreeliststheconstituentAandBswitchesthatimplement thefabricinterconnect.Ifyouselectaconstituentswitch,theinventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefol lowing.
Datacenters
FabricInterconnectsConstituentSwitch
Whenyouexpandanconstituentswitchitem,theviewshowsthefollowing: ComposedOf Hosts
Datacenters
WhenyouselectDatacentersintheInventorytree,theviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: DataCentersUtilizationChart ThepercentagesofSpace,Power,andCoolingcapacitythatareusedwithinyourenvironment.Toseeahistoryof usageperdatacenter,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. PhysicalMachinesbyDataCenterUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofcommoditiesovertime.ClicktheradiobuttonstoshowSpace,Power,orCoolingstatistics. RecommendedactionsforDataCenters UsageforPhysicalMachinesbyDataCenter Atabulardisplayofusageforthedatacentersinyourenvironment.
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DataCenters
IntheInventorytree,theDatacentersbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
DataCentersHierarchy
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WhenyouexpandtheDataCentersitem,theInventorytreeliststheindividualdatacentersinyourenvironment.If youselectanindividualdatacenter,thedatadisplayissimilartotheabovefigure,butforthatsingledatacenter.The UIchartshowsconsumptionbyeachPMinthedatacenter.Foreachindividualdatacenter,theInventorytreeshows thefollowing: ConsistsOf Hosts
ProviderVirtualDatacentersexposetheresourcesthatyouwilldelivertocustomerorganizations.VirtualDataCen tersaremanagedbyvCloudDirector.NotethatyoumusthaveinstalledtheCloudEditionlicensetoaccessthisfea ture. WhenyouselectProviderVirtualDataCentersintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowingpanels: ProviderVirtualDataCentersUtilizationChart Thepercentageofallocatedmemory,CPU,andstorageresourcesthatareusedbyyourprovidervDCs.Toseea historyofusageperdatacenter,clicktheassociatedbar. .Notethatutilizationindex Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. ProviderVirtualDataCentersUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofallocatedcommoditiesovertime.Clicktheradiobuttonstoshowmemory,CPU,orstorage statistics. RecommendedactionsforProviderVirtualDataCenters UsageforProviderVirtualDataCenter Atabulardisplayofusageforthedatacentersinyourenvironment.
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ProviderVirtualDataCenters
IntheInventorytree,theProviderVirtualDatacentersbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
ProviderVirtualDatacentersHierarchy
WhenyouexpandtheProviderVirtualDatacentersitem,theInventorytreeliststheindividualProvidervDCsinyour environment.IfyouselectanindividualProvidervDC,theInventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilartothefollow ing.
IndividualProviderVirtualDataCenter
Thesepanelsshow: ProvidervDCUtilizationChart Thepercentageutilizationovertimeofmemory,CPU,andstoragecommoditiesthatareallocatedtothisvDC. ProviderPhysicalMachineUtilization ThepercentageutilizationofresourcesonthephysicalmachinesthathostthisvDC. ProviderDatastoreUtilization ThepercentageutilizationofresourcesonthedatastoresthatservicethisvDC. RecommendedActionsfortheProvidervDC ProvidervDCConsumedResources Atabulardisplayoftheutilizationofresources,comparedtothecapacitythathasbeenallocatedtothevDC. OrganizationVirtualDataCenterUtilization ThepercentageofresourcecapacityontheProvidervDCthatisutilizedbythehostedOrganizationvDCs. HostsTheOrganizationvDCsthatarehostedbythisProvidervDC
IfyouexpandanindividualProvidervDC,theInventoryviewshowsthefollowing:
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OrganizationVirtualDatacentersexposethephysicalresourcesthatareallocatedtospecificcustomerorganizations. VirtualDatacentersaremanagedbyvCloudDirector.NotethatyoumusthaveinstalledtheCloudEditionlicenseto accessthisfeature. WhenyouselectOrganizationVirtualDatacentersintheInventorytree,theInventoryviewdisplaysthefollowing panels: OrganizationVirtualDatacentersUtilizationChart Thepercentageofallocatedmemory,CPU,andstorageresourcesthatareusedbyyourorganizationvDCs.Tosee ahistoryofusageperdatacenter,clicktheassociatedbar. Tochangethemetricstoplotorchangethechartsortorder,editthechart .Notethatutilizationindex showsameasureoftheutilizationofresources.Themoreequaltheutilizationindexesareforyourapplications, themoreevenlydistributedtheirloads. OrganizationVirtualDatacentersUtilizationTrend Theconsumptionofallocatedcommoditiesovertime.Clicktheradiobuttonstoshowmemory,CPU,orstorage statistics. RecommendedactionsforOrganizationVirtualDatacenters UsageforOrganizationVirtualDatacenter Atabulardisplayofusageforthedatacentersinyourenvironment.
OrganizationVirtualDataCenters
IntheInventorytree,theOrganizationVirtualDatacentersbranchincludesahierarchysimilartothefollowingfigure.
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ProviderVirtualDatacentersHierarchy
WhenyouexpandtheOrganizationVirtualDatacentersitem,theInventorytreeliststheindividualOrganizationvDCs inyourenvironment.IfyouselectanindividualOrganizationvDC,theInventoryviewdisplaysasetofpanelssimilarto thefollowing.
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IndividualProviderVirtualDataCenter
Thesepanelsshow: OrganizationvDCUtilizationChart Thepercentageutilizationovertimeofmemory,CPU,andstoragecommoditiesthatareallocatedtothisvDC. VMsonOrganizationvDC ForeachVMonthisvDC,thepercentageutilizationofresources. ProviderVirtualDatacenterUtilization ThepercentageofthehostProvidervDCresourcesthatareutilizedbythisOrganizationvDC. RecommendedActionsfortheOrganizationvDC OrganizationvDCConsumedResources Atabulardisplayoftheutilizationofresources,comparedtothecapacitythathasbeenallocatedtothevDC. ConsumesTheProvidervDCthathoststhisOrganizationvDC
IfyouexpandanindividualOrganizationvDC,theInventorylistshowsthefollowing:
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Reports
OperationsManagerreportsgiveyouselectivesnapshotsofthestateofyourenvironment. Hostreportingprovidescomprehensivecustomizablereportstotrack,analyzeandtrendyourphysicalandvirtual infrastructureoperations. Storagereportingprovidesreportstotrack,analyzeandtrendthestorageresourcesinyourenvironment.
Thereportingutilityincludesasetofalreadydefinedreports,andyoucandesignyourowncustomreports. StandardreportsareinPDFformat,andyoucanalsoexportXMLversionstoviewasMicrosoftExcelspreadsheets. OperationsManagergeneratesstandardreportseverydayatadeterminedtime(2:00amontheOperationsManager systemclock).Withthesereportsyoucanseehistoricalinformationaboutthestateofyourenvironment. Note:OperationsManagermustrunforatleast24hoursbeforetheitcangeneratestandardreports. Youcanviewthesereportsinyourwebbrowser,oryoucansendthemtoaspecifiedemailaddress.Youcanalsoadd listsofsubscriberstoeachreport,includingemailandreportinginterval(dailyorweekly).Inthisway,youcanuse OperationsManagerreportstokeepaspecificgroupofpeopleinformedaboutthestateofyourenvironment. Whenyoucreatecustomreports,OperationsManagergeneratesthemperyourrequest.Thesereportscandisplay fiveminutedata,hourlydata,ordatathatisconsolidateddaily.TheReportspagedisplaysacustomizedreportas HTMLyoucanprintitorsaveitasPDF,CSV,orXML.Youcanalsosendcustomreportstoaspecifiedaddressand setupsubscriptions. WhenyouclicktheReportstool( )orareporticonforaninventoryitem( playsthereportingutilityinanewwebpage. ),OperationsManagerdis
Note:Thefirsttimeyoulaunchthereportingpage,youmustprovidelogincredentials.Usthesamecredentialsthat youprovidedtologintoOperationsManager.
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TheReportsGUI
IntheReportsGUI,theManagementPanelprovidesaccesstoindividualreports,andanytoolsyouneedtoshowor editreports.Thispaneldisplaysdifferenttools,dependingontheReportTabyouareusing.OperationsManager maintainscategoriesofreports,andyouopenorcloseaccordionbuttonstoshow/hideeachcategory. TheViewPanelshowswhicheverreportyouchoosetoview.Whenyoucreateoreditacustomreport,theEditPanel displaysinthislocation. TheReportspageincludesthreetabsthatpresentthefollowingcapabilities: StandardReportsonpage 188UsethistabtoviewthestandardreportsthatOperationsManagergenerates. ThereportsthatappearinthislistaredeterminedbysettingsintheVMTurboAdminview(seeReport Configurationonpage 221). CustomReportsonpage 190Usethistabtocreatecustomreports,andshowonlytheinformationyouwant. ManageSubscriptionsonpage 196Usethistabtoseeataglancewhoissubscribedtoyourreports,andaddor removesubscriptions.
StandardReports
ThistabpresentsallthestandardreportsthatOperationsManagergenerates.Thesereportsincludetabulardataand chartstopresenttheinformation.EachreportheadingintheManagementPanelincludesanicontoindicatethe typesofchartsitincludes. TheStandardReportsincludecategoriessuchas:
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CapacityManagementforStorageAvailableandutilizedstoragecapacity CapacityManagementforVMsAvailableandutilizedVMresourcecapacity WorkloadDistributionResourceutilizationforphysicalandvirtualmachines MachineandDataStoreSummariesSummarizesphysicalandvirtualmachines,generatedonrequest GroupandClusterSummariesSummarizesPMandVMgroups,generatedonrequest PDFtoviewthereportasPDFintheViewpanel ExceltogeneratethereportintheExcelXMLformatandeithersaveittodiskorviewitinMicrosoftExcel
Toviewareport,choosethecreationdateyouwant.Thenclick:
Tosendareporttooneormorepeople,clickSend,andprovideacommaseparatedlistofemailaddresses.
SubscribingtoStandardReports
OperationsManagerprovidessubscription,sothatOperationsManagerwillsendreportstogivenemailaddressesat regularintervals.Notethattherearetwotypesofstandardreports: Fixedreportsgeneratedforapredeterminedsetofentities,suchasallhosts,oralldatastores Ondemandreportsgeneratedforthesetofentitiesthatyouspecify Therecipientsemailaddress. Thereportingperiodhowoftentosendthereport. ForOndemandreports,thesetofentitiestoincludeinthereportsubscription.OperationsManagergeneratesa separatereportforeachentity.
Whenyoucreateasubscription,youspecify:
FixedReportsSubscriptions
Tocreateasubscription,clicktheSubscribelinkthatisinthereportsentry.
Intheformthatappears,providetheemailaddressandreportingperiod,thenclickSave. Toeditthissubscription(forexample,tochangethereportingperiod),usetheManageSubscriptionstab(seeManage Subscriptionsonpage 196).
OnDemandReportSubscriptions
Tocreateasubscription,clicktheEditSubscriptionslinkthatisinthereportsentry.
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Intheformthatappears,providetheemailaddressandreportingperiod,choosethesetofentitiesforthereport, thenclickSave.Toeditsubscriptions,clickthelinkandmodifythetableofsubscriptions.
Forexample,thisfigureshowsanexistingsubscriptionforJaneSmith.Theformispreparedtocreate4separatesub scriptionsforJohnDoe.WhentheuserclicksSave,thosereportswillappearinthetable.
CustomReports
Customreportsshowtabulardataforthefieldsyouspecify.TheOperationsManagerdatabasestoreshistoricaldata infiveminutedatarecords.Atspecifiedintervals,thedatabaseconsolidatesthefiveminutedataintohourlyrecords, anditconsolidatesthehourlyrecordsintodailyrecords.TheadministratorusesRetentionConfigurationon page 274tomanagehowOperationsManagerperformsthisconsolidation.
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AddingNewCustomReports
Toview,send,orsubscribetoacustomreport,clicktheassociatedlinknexttothatreport. Toeditareport,clickEditandmakeyourchanges.SeeEditCustomReportsonpage 191. Tocreateareport,clickAddNewatthebottomoftheManagementPanel.SeeAddingNewCustomReportson page 191.
AddingNewCustomReports
Whenyoucreateanewreport,youfirstchoosewhattypeofreporttocreate. TocreateanewCustomReport: 1. DisplaytheCustomReportstab. 2. ClickAddNew. TheNewCustomReportpagedisplays. 3. EitherclickSelecttobeginbyselectingthetypeofreport,orclickCopytobaseyourworkonacopyofanexisting report. Whenyoucreateanewreport,youcaneitherselectfromalistofreporttypes,oryoucanchoosetobaseyour newreportonacopyofanexistingreport. Thereporttypedeterminesthetimerangefortheindividualdatarecords,aswellasafocusonutilizationor capacitydata.Forinformationaboutthetimerepresentedbyeachrecord,seeCustomReportsonpage 190and RetentionConfigurationonpage 274. Tocreateanewreportthatisbasedonareporttype,clickSelectforthereporttypeyouwanttouse.TheNew CustomReportpagelistsallthereporttypesyoucanuseforyourreport,withdescriptionsofeach. Tocreateanewreportbasedonacopyofanexistingcustomreport,clickCopyforthereportyouwanttocopy. AtthebottomoftheNewCustomReportpageyouwillfindalistoftheexistingcustomreports,alongwiththeir descriptions. WhenyouclickSelectorCopy,theEditCustomReportsonpage 191pageappears.Youmakechangesinthispageto definethenewreport. Note:Theeasiestwaytolearnhowtocreateacustomreportistouseacopyofanexistingreport.Thereportsutility shipswithanumberofreportsyoucanuseasexamples.
EditCustomReports
Thispagepresentsthetoolstoaddfieldstoyourcustomreport,specifysortorderofthereporttable,andspecify conditionsthatyoucanusetofilterthetablebyfieldvalues.Changesyoumakeonthispageautomaticallyapplyto thecurrentreportexceptfortheBasicPropertiesform(reporttitle,category,description,etc.),youdonotneedto applyanychanges. Whenyouarefinishedspecifyingyourreport,clickDoneEditing.ThistakesyoutotheinitialpageoftheCustom Reportstab,anddisplaysthecurrentreportcategory.
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Ifyounolongerwantthereportinyourcollection,clickDeleteThisReport.Notethatifyourecreatinganewreport, thatreportexistsinthecollectionevenifyouhavemadenochangeswhatsoever.Ifyouchangeyourmindanddont wanttocreatethisreport,clickDeleteThisReport. Tocreateoreditareport,youperformthefollowingtasks: SettingBasicPropertiesonpage 192Provideinformationthatdescribesthereport,andspecifythemaximum numberofrecords. ChoosingQueryFieldsonpage 193Fromthelistofavailablefieldsforthisreporttype,movefieldsintothe QueryFieldslist.EachitemintheQueryFieldslistwillcreateacolumninyourreport. SpecifyingQueryFieldConditionsonpage 193(optional)ForeachfieldintheQueryFieldslist,youcanspecify conditionstofilterthereportbythatfield. SortingReportColumnsonpage 195(optional)ForeachfieldintheQueryFieldslist,youcanspecifyascending ordescendingsort.Youcanalsospecifysortorderwhichcolumntosortfirst,thensecond,andsoon.
Note:Theeasiestwaytolearnhowtoeditacustomreportistouseacopyofanexistingreport.Reportershipswith anumberofreportsyoucanuseasexamples.
SettingBasicProperties
TheBasicPropertiesformprovidesadescriptionofthereport,andalsolimitsthenumberofrecordsthereportwill contain.
BasicPropertiesforaCustomReport
Note:WhenyoumakechangestotheBasicPropertiesform,youmustclickApplyFormChangestoassignthese changestothereport. TheBasicPropertiesformincludesthefollowinginformation.MakeyoursettingsandthenclickApplyFormChanges: ReportTypeThisshowsthereporttypethatisthebasisforthisreport. TitleProvideyourowndescriptivereporttitle.
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CategoryProvideanynameforacategory.Ifyouuseanexistingcategoryname,thisreportwillbeamember.If youprovideannewname,youwillcreateanewreportcategory.Youshoulduseadescriptivenamethatcan applytomultiplecustomreports.WhenyouopentheCustomReportstab,theManagementPanelwillincludean accordionbuttonforeachreportcategoryyoucreate. ShortDescriptionTheshortdescriptionappearsinthereportasatooltipwhenyouhoveroverthetitle. LongDescriptionThelongdescriptionappearsinthereport,andalsointhelistofcustomreportsyoucancopy whenyoucreatenewreports(seeAddingNewCustomReportsonpage 191). MaxRecordsThedefaultis500.Youshouldspecifyareasonablenumberofrecordsforyourreport.Toomany recordsmakeyourreportdifficulttoread.Generatingareportwithaverylargenumberofrecordscan monopolizeOperationsManagerresources.
ChoosingQueryFields
ThefieldsthatyouaddtotheQueryFieldslistwillappearinthereportstable.ToaddanAvailableFieldtothelist, clickthearrowforthatavailablefield. Eachfieldcreatesacolumninthetabletomovethecolumnpositiontotheleft,clickthequeryfieldsuparrow.Use thesearrowstoarrangethelayoutofyourreportstable. ToremoveafieldfromtheQueryFieldslistandreturnittoAvailableFields,clickthefieldsRemovebutton.
QueryFieldsforaCustomReport
SpecifyingQueryFieldConditions
Youcanoptionallyspecifyaqueryconditionforagivenqueryfield.Inthisway,youcanfilterthereporttoonlyshow specificdata.Forexample,thefollowingfigureshowsanexistingqueryfortheinstance_namefieldthatlimitsitto thestoragedevicenamediSCSISharedDisk1.Thefigurealsoshowsanewconditionthatgetsstoragelatencydata fromtheproperty_typefield.
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EditingaFieldCondition
Toaddacondition,clicktheplus(+)icon.Toremoveanexistingcondition,clickitsminus()icon. Tospecifyacondition: ChooseaFieldNameYoucanchoosefromthefieldsthatareavailableforthisreport. ChooseanoperationForexample,tomatchastring,chooseequal. SpecifyavalueYoucanprovidealiteralstringorinteger,oryoucanprovideanSQLexpressionthatreturnsa value.Forexample,intheabovefigurethenewconditionwillhavethefollowingexpressionforitsvalue: date(date_sub(now(),interval 1 day)).
Asyouspecifyaconditionforafield,itisusefultoknowwhatvaluesareavailableinthedatabaseforagivenfield. TheValuetextboxincludesaShowChoiceslinkthatdisplaystheFieldValuesReferencelist.Thislistshowsvaluesfor thedatabasefields.Thislistshowslivevaluesthatitgetsfromthedatabase.Forexample,thelistofvaluesforthe instance_namefieldshowsthenamesofeveryentitythatOperationsManagerhasdiscoveredforyourenvironment.
ExistingFieldValuesforInstanceName
Toseealistofvaluesforafield,clickthearrownexttothatfield. Touseavalue,youcancopyitfromthelistandpasteitintheConditionValuetextfield.Forexample,youcouldmake aconditionsuchasinstance_name = datastore3tolimityourreporttoinformationabouttheentitynamed datastore3.
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ThisFieldValueReferencedoesnotshowvaluesforcalculatedfields.Thefollowingisatableofthesefields,andhow thevaluesaretreated:
FieldName:
utilization stddev_property_value avg_property_value min_property_value max_property_value used_capacity available_capacity capacity
ValueDescription
Apercentage,where0.5=50% Arawnumber,wheretheunitsofmeasuredepend ontheresourcethisfieldrepresents.
SortingReportColumns
ForanyfieldintheQueryFieldslist,youcanspecifysortdirectionandsortorder.Whenyougenerateareport,itwill sortthecolumnsofdataaccordingtothesettingsyoumake.
SpecifyingSort
Bydefault,thequeryfieldsdonotsort.Todefinesortingforafield,clickthehyphencharacterintheSortcolumn.This changesthespecificationtoASC,forascendingsort.Foradescendingsort,clicktheSortfieldagain(clickASC)this changesthespecificationtoDSC.Clickthefieldagaintoturnofsortingandchangethespecificationtoahyphenchar acter. Tospecifysortorder,clicktheUpArrowtomovetheentryupinthelist.TheSortOrdercolumnindicatestheordering ofeachfield.
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ManageSubscriptions
Thistabshowsyouataglanceallthesubscriptionstoyourstandardandcustomizedreports.Thetabdividesthelist ingbycategory,andgivesyouthetoolstoaddordeletesubscriptionsforeachreport.Thefollowingfigureshowsthat JohnDoeissubscribedtotwodailyreports,andJaneSmithissubscribedtooneweeklyreport.
ManageSubscriptions
Toaddasubscriber,clickthePLUSbutton,andspecifythefollowinginformation: emailAddressTheaddressofthereportsubscriber PeriodOneofDaily,Weekly,orMonthly,tospecifyhowoftenthesubscriberreceivesthereport DayofWeekForaweeklyperiod,thedayoftheweektosendthereport
Dodeleteasubscriber,clicktheMINUSbutton. Note:YoucanspecifytheFromaddressforemailstoreportsubscribers.Bydefault,OperationsManagerusesthe emailaddressthatisassociatedwiththeinstalledOperationsManagerlicense.YoucanspecifyaFromaddressaspart ofyourcurrentEmailNotificationpolicy.Formoreinformation,seeEmailandTrapNotificationonpage 271.
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TheAdminviewprovidessettingstomanageOperationsManagersessionsandperformotheradministrativetasks.In thisviewyouassigntheinstancesofanyhypervisorsOperationsManagerwillconnecttoasitmanagesyourenviron ment.YoucanalsousetheAdminviewtomanageuseraccountsonOperationsManager,managehowOperations Managerretainssystemmetricsandotherdata,managecustomgroups,andperformmaintenancetaskssuchas managingconfigurationfilesorrefreshintervals. TheConfigurationpaneloftheAdminviewincludesthefollowingaccordionbuttonsforspecificadministrativetasks: LicenseConfigurationonpage 218 ApplylicensekeystoactivateVMTurboOperationsManagerfeatures. TargetConfigurationonpage 205 UsethesetoolstospecifythelistofVMwareVirtualCenterserversOperationsManagerwillconnecttoasit monitorsyourenvironment. UserAuthenticationConfigurationonpage 197 CreateandmanageuseraccountsfortheOperationsManager. ReportConfigurationonpage 221 SpecifywhichreportsOperationsManagerwillgeneratedaily. Maintenanceonpage 220 Performgeneraltaskssuchasmanagingconfigurationfilesorrefreshintervals.
UserAuthenticationConfiguration
Asanadministrator,youspecifyaccountsthatgrantusersspecificaccesstoOperationsManager.Thefollowingtopics describehowtoworkwithuseraccounts: CreatingUserandGroupAccountsonpage 198Accountscanbeforindividualusers,ormembersofActive Directorygroups UserAuthenticationonpage 200AccountscanuseActiveDirectoryorlocallystoredcredentials AccountPrivilegesonpage 202AccountsincludetypeandroletospecifyaccesstoOperationsManager features AccountScopeonpage 204Limitswhichdevicesintheenvironmenttheusercanaccess
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CreatingUserandGroupAccounts
OperationsManagersupportsindividualuseraccounts,andActiveDirectorygroupaccounts.
IndividualUserAccounts
Useraccountsdeterminethefollowingforagivenuserlogin: Usercredentials CredentialscanbestoredlocallyontheOperationsManagerserver,ortheycanbemanagedbyActiveDirectory. Type Usertypeisawaytosetupanaccountforthirdpartyusersorserviceprovidercustomers(seeAccountTypeon page 203). Role TheusersroledeterminesaccesstoOperationsManagerfeatures(seeAccountRoleonpage 203). AuthenticationType Eitherlocal(credentialsstoredontheOperationsManagerserver)orActiveDirectory(seeActiveDirectory Authenticationonpage 201).
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Tocreateanewuseraccount,clickAdd,andprovidetherequiredinformation.Whenyourefinished,clickCreate. WhencreatingauseraccountthatismanagedbyActiveDirectory,youmustspecifytheusernameandtheActive Directorydomain.Youcanusethefollowingformatsforausername: mydomain\theuser theuser@mydomain.com
Whentheuserlogsin,heorshemustusethesameformatthatyouspecifiedfortheaccount.Forthisreason,wesug gestthatyouusethesameformatforalluseraccountsthataremanagedbyActiveDirectory.(Forinformationabout ActiveDirectorysettings,seeActiveDirectoryAuthenticationonpage 201.) Toeditordeleteauseraccount,selecttheuserinthelist.ThenmakechangesandclickUpdate,ortoremovetheuser youcanclickDelete.
ActiveDirectoryGroupAccounts
GroupaccountsuseActiveDirectorygroupstomanageuserauthentication.Youcanspecifyroleandscopeforthe group,andanymemberoftheADgroupcanlogintoOperationsManagerwiththoseprivileges.TologinviaAD groups,ausermustenteravalidUserPrincipalName(UPN).
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Note:Tologinviaagroupaccount,OperationsManagermusthaveanActiveDirectorydomainalreadyspecifiedin theActiveDirectorySettingsform.ForinformationaboutActiveDirectorysettings,seeActiveDirectoryAuthentica tiononpage 201.
Tocreateanewuseraccount,clickAdd,andprovidetherequiredinformation.Whenyourefinished,clickCreate. Toeditordeleteauseraccount,selecttheuserinthelist.ThenmakechangesandclickUpdate,ortoremovetheuser youcanclickDelete.
UserAuthentication
OperationsManagersupportsthefollowingtypesofauthentication: LocalOperationsManagerstoresusercredentialsonitslocalserver ActiveDirectoryOperationsManagerauthenticatesuserviacredentialsthataremanagedbyActiveDirectory
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LocalAuthentication
Localauthenticationisforindividualusers.OperationsManagerstorestheaccountcredentialslocallyonitsserver.To createalocalaccount,opentheUserConfigurationpanelintheAdminview,andclickAddintheUser/GroupAdmin istrationform.ThenprovidetherequiredinformationandclickCreate.Theformshouldappearsimilartothefollow ingfigure:
ActiveDirectoryAuthentication
ActiveDirectory(AD)authenticationusescredentialsthataremanagedbyanActiveDirectoryserver.Tocreatean accountthatusesAD,youmustalreadyhavespecifiedtheADdomainorserverthatOperationsManagerwilluse. ThenyoucanspecifyADauthenticationforindividualusers,orforADgroups. Note:WhenyouspecifyActiveDirectorydomainandserver,thosesettingsareglobaltotheOperationsManager appliance.AllADuserswilllogintotheapplianceviathosespecifications.IfyouchangetheADdomainorserver,then thosechangeswillaffectallsubsequentADuserlogins. TospecifytheActiveDirectorydomainandserverthatOperationsManagerwilluse,opentheUserConfiguration panelintheAdminview,andprovidetherequiredinformation.Asyouchangeanyofthefieldsinthisform,besureto clickApply.Theformshouldappearsimilartothefollowingfigure.
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YoucanspecifyActiveDirectorySettingstogetthefollowingresults:
Result
DisableADauthentication ADauthenticationviaanyADserveron adomain ADauthenticationviaaspecificAD server EnableADGroupauthentication
Domain
Specifynodomainandnoserver. SpecifyanADdomainanddonotspecifyanADserver.Authenticationwilluseany ADserveraccessiblefromthatdomain. SpecifyanADserver,andoptionallyspecifyanADdomain. Toenablegroups,youmustspecifyandADdomain.AuthenticationwilluseanyAD serveraccessiblefromthatdomain.ThedomainisnecessaryforActiveDirectoryto findauserviatheUserPrincipalName(UPN).YoucanoptionallyspecifyanAD server. SpecifyanADserver,butdonotspecifyanADdomain.
DisableADGroupauthentication,but enableADforsingleusers
AccountPrivileges
OperationsManageraccountsincludestheRoleandTypesettingstospecifyaccessprivileges.Youcanusetheseto setupdifferenttypesofuseraccounts.Forexample,thesameOperationsManagerservercansupportuserswho: PerformOperationsManageradministrationtasks Modifythevirtualenvironment UseOperationsManagertomonitortheenvironment AccesssmallpartsoftheenvironmentasServiceProviderclients
BycombiningRoleandTypeinauseraccount,youcansetupaccessprivilegesthatsupporttheseandotherusers needs.
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AccountType
Accounttypeprovidesawaytolimitaccountprivilegessouserscanseeonlyvirtualresources.Thisisusefulforser viceproviderswhowanttheircustomerstouseOperationsManager,butdontwanttoexposeinformationaboutany physicalresourcesintheenvironment.Inthisway,aserviceprovidercanuseOperationsManagertogivecustomersa windowintotheresourcestheyhavepurchased,butnotexposeinformationtheserviceproviderwouldratherkeep private.
OperationsManagerprovidesthefollowinguseraccounttypes: DedicatedUnlimitedusertype Auserwhoisfocusedontheoverallvirtualenvironment,orwhoisanadministratoroftheOperationsManager appliance.Forexample,aserviceproviderwouldsetupdedicatedaccountsforitsITstaff. AdedicatedusercanhaveanyoftheuserrolesinOperationsManager. Whenyoucreateadedicateduseraccount,youcanoptionallyspecifyascope. SharedLimitedusertype Auserwhoisfocusedonasubsetofthevirtualenvironment.Forexample,aserviceproviderwouldcreatea sharedaccountforacustomerwhohaspurchasedasetvirtualofresources. Whenyoucreateashareduseraccount,youmustalsospecifyascopetolimittheinventorythattheshareduser canaccess. NotethatasharedusercanonlyhaveanObserverorAdvisorrole.AnadvisorcanseetheToDolist,butcannot performanyactionsviaOperationsManager.Inaddition,ashareduseronlyhasaccesstotheInventoryview.
AccountRole
RoledetermineswhatOperationsManagerfeaturestheusercanaccess.Youcansetaroleforindividualaccountsas wellasgroupaccounts.Forgroupaccounts,anymemberofthegroupwhologsinwiththisaccountwillassumethe givenrole.
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Youcanchoosefromthefollowing: Observer TheusercanusetheHomeandInventoryviews.Thisisthemostrestrictiverole. Advisor TheusercanusetheHome,Inventory,andPlanviews,butcannotacceptrecommendedactions. Automator TheusercanusealltheviewsexceptAdminandPolicy.Thisusercanacceptrecommendedactions,butcannot performadministrativetasks. Administrator TheusercanuseallOperationsManagerviews.
AccountScope
Whencreatinganaccount,youcandefineascopeforthatuser.Thescopelimitswhattheusercanmonitor.Forexam ple,assumeyouhavecreatedagroupthatcontainsonlythephysicalmachinesthatsupportthisusersVMsorappli cations.Youcanthensettheusersscopetothatgroup.Whentheuserlogsin,OperationsManagerwillonlydisplay informationaboutthosemachines,andresourcesassociatedwiththemsuchashostedVMsanddatastoragethat theyuse.Inthefigurebelow,thescopeissettotheVMsonaspecificnetwork.Theusersaccountcanonlyaccess resourcesassociatedwiththatnetwork. Notethatdedicatedcustomerscanworkwithphysicalresources,butsharedcustomersarerestrictedfromworking withthephysicalinfrastructure.Inthefigurebelow,theaccountisforashareduser.
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SettingtheUsersScope
Note:Ifyouwanttousecustomgroupstosetthescope,youmustcreatethegroupsfirst,andthenassignthemtothe useraccount.Formoreinformation,seeGroupManagementonpage 239.
TargetConfiguration
TargetConfigurationdetermineswhichVirtualManagementserversOperationsManagerwillmonitor.TouseOpera tionsManager,youmustinstallitinanetworkthathasaccesstotheseservers.Thenyoucanaddthemanagement serversastargetstoyourOperationsManagerinstallation. TargetConfigurationdisplaysanEnvironmentSummarypanelandalistofcurrenttargetservers.Theenvironment summarychartsthenumbersofPMs,VMs,datastores,Datacenters,andnetworknodesinyourenvironment. ThelistoftargetsdisplaysallthetargetserversOperationsManagercurrentlymonitors.OperationsManagercur rentlysupports:
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Hypervisors VMwarevCenter4.15.1 RHEVM(RedHatEnterpriseVirtualizationManager)versions3.0and3.1 MicrosoftHyperV2008and2012 CitrixXenServer5.66.1 CloudManagers VMwarevCloudDirector1.05.1 CloudStack3.0.2and3.0.6 LoadBalancers CitrixNetScaler StorageControllers NetAppStorageSystemsstoragecontrollersrunningDataONTAPversion8orlater ComputingFabrics CiscoUCS OperationsManager3.3orhigher AssignOperationsManagerappliancesastargetstoconfigureanaggregatedinstallation.
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CurrentlyLoadedTargets
Thissectionincludesthefollowingtopics.Unlessthereisaspecificentryinthislistforthetargetyouintendtoadd, youcanusethegeneralinstructions,AddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208.You shouldreviewthegeneralinstructionsinanycase,forinformationabouttargetcredentials,removing,andeditingtar gets: AddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServersonpage 208 Generalinstructionsforworkingwithtargetservers. HyperVTargetsonpage 210 AddingvCloudDirectorServersasTargetsonpage 212 AddingLoadBalancersasTargetsonpage 214
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AddingandRemovingTargetVirtualManagementServers
ThetargetserversyourOperationsManagerinstallationwillmanageappearintheTargetConfigurationlist.Youcan add,remove,andeditentriesinthislist.Notethatthetargetserversaccountmustbeconfiguredwithprivilegesthat supporttheOperationsManageractivitiesyouwanttoperform.Forexample,thefollowinglistshowshowvCenter privilegescorrespondtoactivitiesOperationsManagercanperform: VCenterAdministratorEnablesOperationsManagermonitoring,simulation(whatifscenarios),and automationfunctions ReadOnlyEnablesOperationsManagermonitoringandsimulation(whatifscenarios)only EnableDatastoreBrowseEnablingthispropertyfortheaccountgivesOperationsManagertheprivilegesit needstoenableitsstoragemanagementfunctionality
AddingTargets
Toaddatargetserver,clicktheAddbuttontoopentheTargetConfigurationdialogbox.Providetherequestedinfor mation,thenclickSave.Typicalinformationyouprovideincludes: TargetTypeChooseamongthesupportedVMManagementtechnologies(Hypervisor,CloudManagement,or LoadBalancer) Afteryouchoosethetechnology,thenchoosethespecifictargettypeforthattechnology.Youmayseeadifferent targettypes,dependingonyourcurrentlicense. HostnameorIPaddressTheaddressofthetargetserveryouwanttoadd UserNameAvalidaccountusernameforthetargetserver PasswordApasswordforthetargetserveraccount
AddingaLoadBalancerTarget
EditingandRemovingTargets
Toeditatargetserverentry,selecttheentryinthelistandthenclickEdit.TheTargetConfigurationFormopens, whereyoucanmakeyourchanges. Toremoveatargetserver,selecttheentryinthelistandthenclickDelete.
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SelectingaTargettoEditorDelete
AddingHypervisorsasTargets
TomanageVMsinyourenvironment,youaddVMmanagementserversasOperationsManagertargets.Forgeneral discussion,thisdocumentreferstothevarioussupportedVMmanagementtechnologiesashypervisors. Toaddahypervisorasatarget,youwillspecifythefollowing: HypervisortechnologyDifferentvendorscanhavedifferentrequirements HostnameorIPaddressTheaddressofthetargetserveryouwanttoadd UserNameAvalidaccountusernameforthetargetserver PasswordApasswordforthetargetserveraccount OtheroptionalorrequiredinformationForexample,HyperVserverscanusedomainnametoidentifyallthe managedhostsinagivendomain
Thefollowingtopicsprovidemoredetailsaboutaddinghypervisortargetsthatrequirespecialsettingstoprovide accesstoOperationsManager: vCenterServerTargetsonpage 209 HyperVTargetsonpage 210
vCenterServerTargets
ToaddvCenterServerasatarget,youprovide: IPaddressTheaddressofthevCenterservertoaddasatarget UsernameTheusernameforanaccountthathasappropriateprivilegesonthevCenterserver PasswordThepasswordtomatchtheuseraccountforthisvCenterserver
SpecifyingvCenterPrivilegesforOperationsManagerAccess
ToaccessthevCenterserver,OperationsManagerlogsinwiththespecifieduseraccount.Thisaccountmusthavesuf ficientprivilegesforOperationsManagertoaccessenvironmentdata,andtoperformrecommendedactions.For example,thefollowinglistshowshowvCenterprivilegescorrespondtoactivitiesOperationsManagercanperform: VCenterAdministratorEnablesOperationsManagermonitoring,simulation(whatifscenarios),and automationfunctions
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ReadOnlyEnablesOperationsManagermonitoringandsimulation(whatifscenarios)only EnableDatastoreBrowseEnablingthispropertyfortheaccountgivesOperationsManagertheprivilegesit needstoenableitsstoragemanagementfunctionality
Tosetaccountprivileges,usethevSphereclienttocreateoredittheuseraccount,andopentheEditRoledialogbox. ThefollowingtableliststheprivilegesthisaccountshouldhavetosupportOperationsManageractivities.
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Monitoring RecommendActions WastedStorageReporting ExecuteVMMove(vmotion)
RequiredPrivileges
Readonlyforallentitytypes Readonlyforallentitytypes Datastore>BrowseDatastore Resource>Migrate Resource>QueryVmotion Resource>ModifyResourcePool Resource>AssignVMtoResourcePool Datastore>AllocateSpace Datastore>BrowseDatastore Datastore>ConfigureDatastore Datastore>MoveDatastore Datastore>RemoveFile Datastore>UpdateVirtualMachineFiles DatastoreCluster>ConfigureaDatastoreCluster Resource>AssignVMtoResourcePool Resource>Migrate Resource>Relocate Resource>ModifyResourcePool Resource>MoveResourcePool Resource>QueryVMotion VirtualMachine>Configuration>ChangeResource VirtualMachine>Configuration>SwapFilePlacement NOTE:DatastoreClusterpermissionsonlyapplytovSphere5.x
ExecuteVMStorageMove(svmotion)
ExecuteVMResize
VirtualMachine>Configuration>ChangeCPUCount VirtualMachine>Configuration>ChangeResources VirtualMachine>Configuration>Memory VirtualMachine>Interaction>Reset VirtualMachine>Interaction>PowerOff VirtualMachine>Interaction>PowerOn
HyperVTargets
ToaddaHyperVserverasatarget,youmustprovidedomain\usernameintheUserNamefield.Inaddition,the userthatyouspecifymustbeoneoftheserversWBEMScriptingLocaterowners. EachHyperVserverrequiresspecificpermissionstoallowmanagementviaWMI.Thesepermissionsaresetinthe hostsWBEMScriptingLocaterregistrykey.Tosetthepermissions,edittheregistrykeytoaddownersandgrantthem fullcontrol.
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ToaddanownertotheHyperVserversregistrykey: 1. LaunchregeditonthatmachineasAdministrator 2. Findthefollowingregistrykey:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{76A64158-CB41-11D1-8B0200600806D9B6} 3. RightclickthekeyandchoosePermissions 4. ClickAdvancedanddisplaytheOwnertab 5. Intheownerslist,addtheuseryouwanttoallowtoconnecttothemachine 6. ClickOk 7. HighlighttheuserandgrantFullControl OnceyouhavedonethisyoucanspecifytheHyperVserverasanOperationsManagertarget,usingcredentialsforan ownerthathasFullControlprivileges.
AddingMultipleHyperVServers
YoucanaddHyperVtargetsasoneatatime,byprovidingthehostnameorIPaddressofeach.Ifyouhavemanysuch HyperVservers,itismoreefficienttouseasinglecommandtoaddalltheHyperVserversthatareinacluster.Todo this,providethefollowinginformation: HostNameorIPAddressAnyvalidaddressforaHyperVserverwithinthecluster FullDomainNameThefulldomainnameforthegivencluster UsernameandPasswordCredentialsthatarevalidforalltheHyperVserversinthecluster(seeabovefor informationaboutenablingWMImanagement)
AddingaHyperVTarget
Whenyouspecifyafulldomainnameforthecluster,OperationsManagerdiscoversalltheHyperVserverswithin thatclusterandaddsthemastargets.Inaddition,OperationsManagermonitorsyourenvironmentandautomatically addsnewtargetswheneveritdiscoversanewHyperVserverinthecluster.
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AddingCloudManagementTargets
IfyouhaveinstalledtheCloudEditionOperationsManagerlicense,youcanaddCloudStackandvCloudDirector(VCD) serversastargets.
AddingCloudStackServersasTargets
AddingaCloudStackTarget
ToaddaCloudStackserver,specifythefollowinginformation: HostNameorIPAddress OperationsManagerassumesport443Youcanspecifyadifferentportintheaddressfield. UsernameandPassword ThecredentialsmustbeforauserwhoisamemberoftheROOTaccount,andhasageneratedpairofAPIand SecretkeysforCloudStack.OperationsManagerusesthesecredentialstologontotheCloudStackserverand discovertheuserskeyvalues.
Note:AftersettingaCloudStackserverasatarget,youmustthensetthehypervisorsthatserverwillmanageasOper ationsManagertargets.
AddingvCloudDirectorServersasTargets
ToaddaVCDserver,specifytheloginaddressandcredentialsfortheVCDmachine,aswellasusernameandpass wordforthevCenterhypervisorsmanagedbythisVCDserver.
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AddingavCloudDirectorServer
ForaVCDtarget,OperationsManagerdiscoversthevirtualdatacenters(VDCs)thataremanagedbythattarget.To discoveralltheresourcesintheseVDCs,OperationsManagermustaccessthevCenterhypervisorsthatmanagethem. However,inordertodiscoverandmanagethesevCenterhypervisors,OperationsManagerneedslogincredentialsfor eachone.OperationsManagerusesVCUsernameandVCPasswordtoaccessthesevCenterservers. VCUsernameisanoptionalfield.Ifyoudonotprovidethisvalue,OperationsManagerwillobtaintheVCusername thatisspecifiedinthevCloudDirectorsconfiguration.Evenifyouleavethisfieldblank,youmustprovideavalidpass wordfortheobtainedusername. WhenspecifyingVCcredentials,youshouldconsiderthefollowing: OperationsManagerusesthesamecredentialsforallvCenterserversassociatedwiththisvCloudDirectortarget. OperationsManageraddsallthesevCenterserverstothetargetslist. IfthecredentialsarenotvalidforavCenterServer,OperationsManagershowsitinthelistoftargets,butithasa TargetStatusofNotValid.(Allthetargetsinthefollowingfigurearevalid.)
OperationsManagerTargetsshowingvCloudDirectorandassociatedvCenterServers
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AddingLoadBalancersasTargets
AddingaLoadBalancerTarget
Toaddaloadbalancerasatarget,youspecifytheIPaddressandcredentialsfortheloadbalancer.OperationsMan agerdiscoverstheservicetypesthatareassignedtothatloadbalancer.TheseservicetypesappearintheOperations Managersupplychainasvirtualapplications.Toenablediscoveryofvirtualapplications,youmustconfigureloadbal ancerdiscovery.
ConfiguringLoadBalancerDiscovery
Afteryouaddaloadbalancerasatarget,youmustconfigureOperationsManagertodiscoverthevirtualapplications thatloadbalancermanages.Thestepstodothisare: 1. Specifydiscoveryfortheapplicationstheloadbalancerwillmanage Theloadbalancermanagesworkloadacrossinstancesofrunningapplicationsinyourenvironment.Operations Managermustbeconfiguredtodiscoverandmanagetheserunningapplicationsbeforeitcanrecognizethatthey aremanagedbytheloadbalancer.Forexample,Tospecifydiscoveryofaspecificapplication,youdefineitsappli cationsignatureandthenprovidecredentialsforthegivenprotocol(WMI,SNMP,orJMX)thatOperations ManagercanusetoaccesstheVMsthathosttheapplication.Formoreinformation,seeApplicationDiscoveryon page 262. 2. Assignapplicationsignaturestospecificvirtualapplications OperationsManagerdiscoversthevirtualapplicationsthattheloadbalancerusestomanageapplications.After youhavespecifiedsignaturesanddiscoveryfortheapplicationsyouwanttheloadbalancertomanage,youcan thenassignthoseapplicationsignaturestospecificvirtualapplications.Formoreinformation,seeLoadBalancer Discoveryonpage 266. Forexample,assumetheloadbalancerusesvirtualapplicationsnamedwebandsqltomanagewebserversand SQLdatabases.AlsoassumethatyouhavedefinedanapplicationsignaturenamedIISforIISWebServerapplica tions,andanothersignaturenamedSQLforMicrosoftSQLServerapplications.Inthatcase,youneedtomapthe IISsignaturetothewebvirtualapplication,andSQLtothesqlvirtualapplication.NowOperationsManagercan discovertheseapplicationsandrepresentthemastherunningcomponentswithintheloadbalancer.
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AddingStorageControllersasTargets
IfyouhaveinstalledtheStorageExtensionlicense,youcanaddstoragecontrollersastargets.Whenyouaddthesetar gets,OperationsManagercandiscoverthediskarraystheymanage.
AddingaStorageControllerTarget
Toaddastoragecontrollerasatarget,specifytheIPaddressforthestoragecontroller,andcredentialsforauserthat hasAPIprivilegesonthestoragecontroller.OperationsManagerdiscoversthediskarraysandIOmodulesthatare managedbythestoragecontroller.
SpecifyingaUserRoleforOperationsManagerAccesstoNetAppStorage
NetAppfilersrunontheDataONTAPoperatingsystem.TodiscoverandmanageNetAppdiskarrays,OperationsMan agermusthavearoleanduseraccountthatgrantsprivilegestoexecutecertaincommandsviathefilersAPI.Thefiler administratormustconfiguretheroleanduseraccount.WhenyouaddtheNetAppfilerasatarget,youentercreden tialsfortheuserthathasthenecessaryrole.ThenOperationsManagercanlogintothefilertoperformdiscovery, analysis,andperformactions. Tospecifythisinformation,logintotheNetAppfilerwithacommandlineshell.ThenuseDataONTAPcommandsto createarolewithAPIprivileges,agroupthatexposesthatrole,andauserthatisamemberofthatgroup. CreatearolewithAPIprivileges Enterthefollowingcommand: useradmin role add role_name -a capability1[,capability2 ...] ThisrolewillgiveOperationsManagertheabilitytoexecuteeveryAPIcommandthatissupportedbythefilerOS. Forsecurityreasons,youshouldcreatetherolewithacommadelimitedlistofAPIcapabilities.Fortheminimal listofcapabilitiesyoumustgiveOperationsManager,seeRequiredCapabilitiesforOperationsManagerAccessof NetAppFilersonpage 216. Createagroupandassigntheroletoit Enterthefollowingcommand: useradmin group add group_name [-c comments] -r role_name Forexample:useradmin add VMTurboGroup -r VMTurboRole ThiscreatesagroupthatexposestherolenamedVMTurboRole.
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Createauserthatisamemberofthegroup Enterthefollowingcommand: useradmin user add user_name -g group_name Forexampleuseradmin user add VMTurboUser -g VMTurboGroup ThiswillcreateanewuserthatisamemberoftheVMTurboGroup.Whenyouexecutetheabovecommand,the OSwillpromptyoufortheuserspassword.Afteryouprovidethepassword,theOScreatestheuseraccount.You canthenusethosecredentialswhenyouspecifythegivenfilerasaNetApptarget.
RequiredCapabilitiesforOperationsManagerAccessofNetAppFilers
Tosecurelyadministerusers,groups,androles,youshouldnotconfigureroleswithglobalaccessunlessyouhavea specificneed.ForOperationsManagertoaccessNetAppfilers,youcanprovideitwithasubsetoftheDataONTAPAPI capabilities.Thefollowingtableshowstheminimallistofcapabilitiesyoumustprovide:
InspectionCapabilities
apiaggrlistinfo apidisklistinfo apifcpnodegetname apiflashdevicelistinfo apiigrouplistinfo apiiscsinodegetname apiluninitiatorlistmapinfo apinetifconfigget apinfsexportfslistrules2 apioptionslistinfo apisystemgetinfo apisystemgetversion apivolumelistinfo apisnapshotlistinfo apiperfobjectgetinstances apiperfobjectinstancelistinfo apiperfobjectcounterlistinfo apiqtreelist securityapivfiler apiaggrinfo
ExecutionCapabilities
apivolumecreate apivolumesize apivolumeoffline apivolumeonline apivolumedestroy apiaggradd apiaggrcreate apiaggroffline apiaggronline apiaggrdestroy
AddingFabricManagersasTargets
IfyouhaveinstalledtheStorageExtensionlicense,youcanaddfabricmanagersastargets.Whenyouaddthesetar gets,OperationsManagercandiscovertheassociatefabriccomponents.
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AddingaFabricManagerasaTarget
Toaddafabricmanagerasatarget,specifytheIPaddressandcredentialsforthefabricmanager.OperationsMan agerdiscoversthefabricinterfacesassociatedwiththefabricmanager.
AddingOperationsManagerTargetsforAggregation
Forlargevirtualenvironments,youcanusemorethanoneOperationsManagerinstancetomanageyourworkload. Byaggregatingmultipleinstancesinthisway,youcanviewtheentireenvironmentthroughasingleGUI.Onespecial installationofOperationsManagerservesastheaggregatinginstance,anditdisplaysthecombineddataofeach underlyingtargetinstance.FormoreinformationaboutOperationsManageraggregation,seeAggregatedOperations ManagerInstallationsonpage 276. Toconfigureanaggregatinginstance,youaddtheunderlyinginstancesofOperationsManagerastargets. Note:AnaggregatinginstancecannotmanagetargethypervisorsandtargetinstancesofOperationsManageratthe sametime.AllthetargetsofanaggregatinginstancemustbetargetinstancesofOperationsManager.
AddingtargetinstancesofOperationsManager
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ToaddatargetinstanceofOperationsManager,specifytheIPaddressandauthenticationcredentialsforthat instance.Youcanthenusetheaggregatinginstancetomanagethetargetinstancesandviewtheirinformation. TheApplianceIDappearsintheaggregatinguserinterfacewhentheuserneedstoaccessanunderlyingappliance. Forexample,assumeyoureloggedintoanaggregatingapplianceandwanttorunaplan.WhenyoudisplaythePlan view,youwillseealistoftheunderlyingtargetappliances.ThislistshowstheseappliancesbytheirApplianceIDs.
LicenseConfiguration
OperationsManagerprovidesarangeofcapabilities,fromobservingyourenvironment,toplanningresourceman agement,totheautomationofloadbalancing.Theuserinterfacepresentsthesecapabilitiesviadifferentviewsand tools.ThefollowingtableliststhemainOperationsManagerfeaturesforeacheditionoftheproduct.TheVirtual HealthMonitoreditionfeaturesdonotrequirelicensing,butallotherfeaturesdo.
KeyFeature
InfrastructurePerformanceVisibility CapacityandPerformanceAlerting ManagementReporting CapacityPlanning ResourceOptimization&Tuning ProblemPrevention AutomatedRecommendations MultihypervisorManagement APIIntegration&Support MultitenantManagement CloudscaleManagement CloudArchitectureIntegration(vCD/ CloudStack) GuidedWorkflowforOnboardingWorkloads
Cloud Edition
Enterpris eEdition
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KeyFeature
AggregatedViews/ManagementofDistributed Deployments ApplicationPerformanceVisibility ApplicationDiscoveryandPolicy ApplicationLoadBalancingIntegration VMmovesacrossvolumesonsameordifferent diskarrays Resize,suspend,andremovevolumesanddisk arrays Storagecontrolleranalysisincludesimpactof deduplication,compression,anddata scrubbing Calculationsaccountforthin/thick provisioning,deduplication,snapshotspace, andstoragetype(SSDandvariousspindle speeds)
Cloud Edition
Enterpris eEdition
VirtualHealth MonitorEdition

Application Extension
Storage Extension
ToactivatefeaturesoutsideoftheVirtualHealthMonitoredition,youmustpurchaselicensesfromVMTurbo.When youpurchaseanewproduct,VMTurbosendsthelicensekeytoyouinanemailmessage. Toactivatealicense,ClickLicenseConfigurationtodisplaytheform.Copythelicensekeyandpasteitintothetext box,andthenclickSave.TheLicensedProductlistshowsthefeaturesyoucurrentlyhavelicensed.
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LicenseConfigurationForm
Maintenance
TheMaintenancepanelprovidestoolstoloadconfigurationfilesontoyourOperationsManagerinstallation,setup themonitoringinterval,exportdatafortechnicalsupport,andcheckforOperationsManagerupdates.Thesetools areforadvancedusers.YoushouldverifywithVMTurbotechnicalsupportbeforeyouusethem: TheconfigurationfilecontrolsloadspecificconfigurationfilesontoyourOperationsManagerinstallation.For example,asupportengineermightsendyoufreshconfigurationfilesaspartofasolutiontoanissue.Youwould thenloadthesefilesasinstructedbytheengineer. WiththeSMTPRelaysectionyoucanenableemailingVMTurboreportstosubscribersthroughyouremailSMTP relayClicktoenableSMTPandentertheaddressofyourSMTPrelay. IfyouareexperiencingproblemswithOperationsManager,yoursupportengineermightrequestthatyouexport diagnosticdata.Theengineerwillhelpyouspecifythecorrectdatainthetextbox. YoucanchecktoseewhetherVMTurbohasreleasedupdatestotheOperationsManagersoftware,andapply themwhenappropriate.
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ReportConfiguration
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ReportConfiguration
OperationsManagergeneratesstandardreportseverydayatadeterminedtime(2:00am).AstheOperationsMan ageradministrator,youcanlimitreportgenerationandspecifyexactlywhichstandardreportstogenerate.Limiting reportgenerationreducestheprocessingtimespentonreports,andalsoreducesclutterinGUIwhenuserswantto reviewthereports.Changesyoumakeinreportconfigurationtakeeffectforthenextreportgenerationcycle. Toconfigurereportgeneration,expandthecategoriesandsetthecheckboxesforthereportsyouwant.Whenyou havemadeyoursettings,clickSubmit.
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ExtraConfigurationTasks
Thefollowingconfigurationtasksmightbeusefulinyourvirtualenvironment: OperationsManagerBackupProceduresonpage 222 P2VPlanningMigrationfromPhysicaltoVirtualonpage 224 CustomBrandingofOperationsManageronpage 227 ViewingtheAuditLogonpage 232
OperationsManagerBackupProcedures
OperationsManageranticipatestroublefreeuseofOperationsManager,butinmostenvironmentsaregularbackup scheduleisrecommended.YoushouldbeabletoincorporateOperationsManagerbackupsinyourschedulewith minimalimpactonyourregularbackupprocedures.
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OperationsManagerisarealtimemanagementandcontrolapplicationthatperformsthebulkofitsanalysisonin memorydata.Unlikemanyotherproducts,OperationsManagerdoesnotstoreoperationscriticaldataaboutyour environmentonthefilesystemorinadatabase.Asaresult,backupsdonotrequirethespacenecessarytostorea completelistingofalltheresourcesinyourenvironment.Thefollowingdescribesthedatathatmustbeincludedina backup: OperationsManagerhistoricaldatabase OperationsManageruseshistoricaldatatochartpastvalues,performprojections,providebaselinesforplans, anddisplayhistoricaldatainreports.Thisinformationisuseful,andchartsthatdisplayhistoricaldatarelyon historicaldata.However,OperationsManagerperformsworkloadmanagementassoonasitdiscoversyour topology,anddoesnotrelyonthisinformationforoperation. Retainedreports OperationsManagerretainsreportsforaspecifiedperiodoftimeoneyearbydefault. Configurationfiles Configurationfilesdefineuseraccounts,policies,groups,targetconfigurations,licensing,andotherdatathat describesyourinstallation.
OperationsManagerincludesascriptthatyoucanexecutetorunabackup.Youcanalsocancreateabackupbysaving asnapshotoftheOperationsManagervirtualmachine,orbyincludingOperationsManagerinscheduledrunsofa VMbackupagent.
BackupandRestoreViatheOperationsManagerBackupScript
ThesuppliedbackupandrestorescriptsperformbackupsofthecriticalOperationsManagerdatathehistorical database,retainedreports,andconfigurationfiles. Note:YoucanexecutebackupswithnointerruptiontoOperationsManagerprocessing.However,restoreoperations requiretheservertorestart.TherestorecommandrestartstheOperationsManagerserveraspartofitsexecution.
BackingUpOperationsManager
Toperformabackup: OpenaconsoleontheOperationsManagerserverandloginasroot/vmturbo(thesearethedefault credentials) Executethefollowingcommand: /srv/tomcat6/script/appliance/vmtbackup.sh -o [config|full] whereconfigbacksupjusttheconfigurationfiles,andfullbacksupthehistoricaldatabase,retainedreports, andconfigurationfiles. Thescriptgeneratesthefollowingbackupfile: /tmp/vmtbackup.zip Saveacopyofthebackupfiletoasafelocation YoushouldsavecopiesofthebackupsincasetheOperationsManagervirtualmachinefailsandcannotbe recovered.Inthatcase,youcanusethesavedcopytorestoretoanewinstallationoftheappliance.
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RestoringOperationsManagerBackups
Note:TheversionofOperationsManagertowhichyourestorethebackupmustbethesameastheversionthatgener atedthebackupfile. TorestoreabackuptoanOperationsManagerinstallation: Makesureyourmostrecentbackupfileisinthe/tmpdirectoryontheOperationsManagerserver Thebackupfilemustbelocatedin: /tmp/vmtbackup.zip OpenaconsoleontheOperationsManagerserverandloginasroot/vmturbo(thesearethedefault credentials),andnavigatetotherootdirectory(cd /) Executethefollowingcommand: /srv/tomcat6/script/appliance/vmtrestore.sh -o [config|full] whereconfigrestoresjusttheconfigurationfiles,andfullrestoresthehistoricaldatabase,retainedreports, andconfigurationfiles. DownloadanewserverfromtheVMTurboInc.website,anddeployit Thisservershouldbethesameversionastheversionthatyouusedtocreatethebackupfileyouwillrestore. Copyyourmostrecentbackupfiletointhe/tmpdirectoryonthenewlyinstalledserver Thebackupfilemustbelocatedin: /tmp/vmtbackup.zip Executearestorecommandonthenewlyinstalledserver
TorestoreabackupiftheOperationsManagerappliancehasfailedandcannotberecovered:
BackupsViaVirtualMachineSnapshots
Itscommontobackupcriticalvirtualmachinesbycreatingregularsnapshots.Ifthisisthemethodyouprefer,you canincludeOperationsManagerappliancesinyoursnapshotschedule.Thesebackupswillincludealltheinformation thatisnecessarytorestoreOperationsManagertoitsoriginalstate.
UsingVMBackupAgents
IfyouuseVMbackupagentstobackupyourenvironment,youcanincludetheOperationsManagerapplianceinthat backupschedule.Wehavenottestedspecificbackupagents,butwearenotawareofanyreportedissueswiththeir use.
P2VPlanningMigrationfromPhysicaltoVirtual
Tomigrateyourphysicalenvironmenttoavirtualenvironment,youwillidentifyhowmanyvirtualmachinesto deploy,andwhathardwareyouneedtoservethevirtualenvironment.Youcanperformyourownanalysistobuildup suchalisting,oryoucanuseexistingservicesandutilitiestogeneratealisting. Onceyouhavealistofthedevicesyouneedinyourenvironment,youcanuseOperationsManagertoplanoutthe distributionofworkloadandresourcesthatwillgiveyouoptimalperformance.ThePlannersuggestsdeployments thatassureQoSwhilemakingsuretoutilizesystemresourcesasfullyandefficientlyaspossible.
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WhenyouexecuteP2V,theplannercreatesaplanningscenariothatcontainsonlythedevicesinyourlisting.Itthen usestheEconomicSchedulingEnginetocalculatethebestplacementofVMsamongthephysicalhostsanddata stores.ThePlannergeneratesaToDolistofrecommendedactionstoachievethistargetdeployment.Whenitscom pleted,youcanviewtheresults: AsanXMLlistingofrecommendedactions AsaPDFreport AsaplaninthePlanviewofOperationsManager
RunningaP2VPlan
TorunaP2Vplan: 1. GenerateaCSVlistingofvirtualandphysicaldevices Youcangeneratethelistinginanumberofways.Youcanturntoavendortoanalyzeyourcurrentphysicalenvi ronmentandgeneratealistingforyou.Oryoucanperformyourownanalysistogeneratethelisting. Onceyouhavealistofphysicalandvirtualdevices,plustheircapacitiesandresourcerequirements,youmust convertthatdataintoaCSVfilewiththeappropriatefieldsforeachdevice.Foralistingoftherequiredfieldsand fieldorder,seeCSVFieldOrderonpage 226. 2. Loadthelistingandruntheplan ToaccessP2Vplanning,navigateyourbrowsertothefollowingURL:<Operations ManagerAddress>/ plan.html ThisopenstheP2Vpagewhereyoucanprovidethefollowing:
ThelogincredentialsyougivemustbeforauseraccountwitharolethathasaccesstorunthePlanner.Torunthe plan,clickPlanP2V. 3. Viewtheresults Afterrunningtheplan,thewebpagedisplaystwolinks: ViewActionPlanDisplaythelistofrecommendedactionsasXML. GenerateReportDirectOperationsManagertogenerateaPDFreportoutliningtheplanresults. ToreturntotheoriginalP2Vpage,clickthebrowsersBackbutton. ToviewresultsinthePlanviewofOperationsManager,logintoOperationsManagerwiththesamecredentials youusedtoruntheP2Vplan,thennavigatetothePlanview.
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CSVFieldOrder
ThefollowingtableliststhefieldsintheCSVfile.Foreachtypeofdeviceyouwilladd,somefieldsaremandatory, whiletheothersareoptional.ThetableliststhemandatoryfieldsforeachdevicetypewithanX.Youcanprovideval uesfortheunmarkedfields,buttheyarenotmandatory.
Field
Type Instances DataCenter Cluster Network Datastore Host SystemName Vendor Model Description Price VCPUCount Speed(Mhz) vMemSize(MB) StorageSize(GB) NetworkInterfaceCount NetworkSpeed Networkthroughput Speed(MB/sec) I/Ospeed(MB/sec) I/OThroughputSize RackUnits Weight(lbs) Power(W) Thermal(BTU/hr) %CPUUsed
Description
ThetypeofdeviceCanbeoneofVirtualMachine, PhysicaMachine,orStorage Numberofinstancestocreate Nameofthedatacenterthathousesthedevice Nameoftheclusterthedevicebelongsto Nameofthenetworkthedevicerunson Nameofthedatastorethatservicesthedevice ForaVM,thehostphysicalmachine Thenameforthisdevice. Thevendornameforthisdevice Themodelforthisdevice Astringdescribingthisdevice Thepriceforthishardwaredevice Thenumberofcoresonthephysicalmachine Corespeedforthisphysicalmachine Thememoryinstalledonthisphysicalmachine Sizeofthedatastore Thenumberofnetworksthedeviceisconnectedto Thebandwidthofthenetworkservingthisdevice Thenetworkthroughputfortheinterface(s)onthisphysical machine(Kbytes/sec) ??? I/Ospeedforthisdevice(Kbytes/sec) I/Othroughputbandwidthforthisphysicalmachine Numberofrackslotsthisphysicaldevicetakesup Weightofthisphysicaldevice Powerconsumptionofthisphysicaldevice Heatgeneratedbythisphysicaldevice PercentageofCPUcapacitygrantedtothisVMinstance
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Description
PercentageofCPUwaittimecapacitygrantedtothisVM PercentageofmemorycapacitygrantedtothisVMinstance Filesystemcachespacecapacityforthisdevice Percentageofpagingcapacitygrantedtothisdevice Storageaccessspeed PercentageofIOpscapacitygrantedtothisVMinstance I/OspeedforthisVMinstance PercentageofI/OcapacitygrantedtothisVMinstance PercentageofstoragecapacitygrantedtothisVMinstance NetworkspeedforthisVMinstance PercentageofnetworkcapacitygrantedtothisVMinstance
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CustomBrandingofOperationsManager
ThirdpartydistributorsandserviceprovidersmightwanttocustomizethecompanybrandnameforOperationsMan ager.YoucanchangethelogosthatappearingeneratedreportsandintheGUI,sotheproductwillpresentyour brandslogo.WhenyourebrandOperationsManager: YoucreateoneormorecustomOperationsManagerstartuppagestodisplaycustomlogos TheproductGUIdisplaysyourlogo Generatedreportsdisplayyourlogo,andyourcopyrightstatement
Torebrandtheproduct,youwilluploadaZIParchivethatcontainscustomhtmlfiles,andasetoflogoimagefiles. OperationsManagerthencopiesthefilesintotheproperlocations.Inaddition,theOperationsManagerinstallation storesacopyofyourrebrandingfilessothatyourbrandwillremainevenafterexecutingaproductupdate.
ReBrandingOperationsManager
TorebrandOperationsManager: 1. Createimagefilesforyourlogosandcopyrightstatement. Createthefollowingfiles: logo-<Brand_Name>.jpg (where <BrandName> is a custom name you use to identify your brand). Used in the top-left of the application window. This image file mustbe150pixelswideby29 pixelshigh.Userinterfacedisplaywillhaveunpredictableresultsifyouuseadifferentsizedimage. VMTurbo.jpgUsedintheReportswebpage.Therecommendedsizeforthisimageis250pixelswideby 31pixelshigh. vmt_logo.jpgUsedintheReportswebpage.Therecommendedsizeforthisimageis250pixelswideby 31pixelshigh. logo.jpgUsedintheheadersofgeneratedreportpages.Thisimagefilemustbe150pixelswideby29 pixelshigh.
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copyright.jpgUsedtodeclareyourcopyrightforgeneratedreports.Therecommendedsizeforthis imageisby250pixelswideby18pixelshigh.Theimageappearsatthebottomrightofreportpages.
2. Downloadthedefaultrebrandingpackage. Youwillusethispackageasatemplateforcreatingyourownrebrandingpackage. NavigatetoHTTP://<appliance_IP>/update.html.
Provideausername/passwordforanadministratoraccount,chooseDownloadExistingBranding,thenclick Download.Thisdownloadsthefilebranding.zip.Savethisfileinyourworkingdirectory.Youshouldchange thefilenameforexample,saveitasbranding_default.zip. NOTE:YougetthedefaultpackageonlyfromanOperationsManagerinstancethathasnotalreadybeenre branded.Besuretosavethisdefaultpackageforfuturereference.
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3. Unziptherebrandingpackageandaddyourimagestothefiletree. Youshouldseethefollowingdirectorystructureaddyourfilesasindicatedbelowinboldtext: ...\srv ...\srv\rails ...\srv\rails\webapps ...\srv\rails\webapps\persistence ...\srv\rails\webapps\persistence\public ...\srv\rails\webapps\persistence\public\images ...\srv\rails\webapps\persistence\public\images\vmt_logo.jpg ...\srv\rails\webapps\persistence\public\images\VMTurbo.jpg ...\srv\reports ...\srv\reports\images ...\srv\reports\images\copyright.jpg ...\srv\reports\images\logo.jpg ...\srv\www ...\srv\www\htdocs ...\srv\www\htdocs\com.vmturbo.UI ...\srv\www\htdocs\com.vmturbo.UI\assets ...\srv\www\htdocs\com.vmturbo.UI\assets\images ...\srv\www\htdocs\com.vmturbo.UI\assets\images\logo<BrandName>.jpg ...\srv\www\htdocs\com.vmturbo.UI\UIMain.html 4. RenametheUIMain.htmlfile ThisfilepresentstheOperationsManageruserinterface,alongwiththebrandinglogo.Whenyouruserslaunch yourGUI,theURLtheyexecutewillterminateinthisfilename.Forthatreason,youshouldgiveafilenamethat representsyourbrand.Forexample,ifyourenamethefiletoUIMain_MyCompany.html,theURLcustomers executewillbeHTTP://<Appliance_Address>/com.vmturbo.UI/UIMain_MyCompany.html. Notethatyoucanmakeseveralcopiesofthisfile,eachwithadifferentname,andeachthatwilluseadifferent logo.Inthatcase,youwould: Createdifferentversionsoflogo-<BrandName>.jpg, and store them all in
...srv\www\htdocs\com.vmturbo.UI\assets\images\
GivedifferentcustomerstheappropriateURLs,dependingonwhichoftheseUIMain.htmlfilesyouwantthem toopen
5. EdittheUIMain.htmltitleelement Editthisfiletosetthetextthatdisplaysinthebrowserwindowstitlebar.Searchforthe<title>element,andmake yourchanges.Forexample,change <title>VMTurbo - Converge,Control, Prevent</title> to <title>MyCompany - Converge,Control, Prevent </title>
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6. SpecifythelogoforthisUIMain.htmlfile ThelogoisspecifiedasaFlashvariable.Searchthefileforthefollowingstatement: var flashvars = {}; Immediatelyafterthisline,specifythepathtoyourcustomlogoasfollows: flashvars.appImageFileName = "assets/images/logo-<BrandName>.jpg"; AssumingalogofilenamedlogoMyCompany.jpg,theresultingeditshouldappearasfollows: var flashvars = {};flashvars.appImageFileName = "assets/images/logoMyCompany.jpg"; 7. Savethefiletreeasarebrandingpackage Therebrandingfiletreethatyouhavemodifiedbeginsatthesrvdirectory.Savethisdirectoryandallofits contentsasaZIPfilenamedbranding.zip. 8. Uploadyourcustomrebrandingpackage NavigatetoHTTP://<appliance_IP>/update.htmlandchooseUploadNewBranding Provideausername/passwordforanadministratoraccount ClickBrowse and select the ZIP file you just created. Note: The file must be named branding.zip. Click Upload
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Thisuploadsthepackagetotheinstallation.OperationsManagerdeploysthesefilessoitcanusethelogosand copyrightimagethatyouprovided.Inaddition,itstoresthepackagesoyourbrandwillpersistafteryouupdateto laterversionsofOperationsManager. 9. Saveyourbrandingpackagesforlaterreference. Youshouldsavethedefaultbrandingpackageandyourcustombrandingpackage,incaseyouneedeitherofthe setsoffilesatalaterdate.
DeliveringtheReBrandedGUI
TodeliveryourbrandedGUItoyourcustomers,havethemexecutetheURLthatcallsyourcustomversionof UIMain.html.Forexample,haveyourcustomersnavigateto:
HTTP://<Appliance_Address>/com.vmturbo.UI/UIMain_MyCompany.html
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UpdatingOperationsManager
WhenyouupdateOperationsManager,theupdatedversionwillstilluseyourcustombranding. Insomecases,anupdateincludeschangestotheUIMain.htmlfile.Inthiscase,yourcustomizedfilewillnotinclude thesechanges.ForyourcustombrandtousethelatestchangesinUIMain.html,youmustrecreateyourcustomUIM ain.htmlfiles,basedonthenewversion.
ViewingtheAuditLog
OperationsManagermaintainsalogofeventsthatoccurinyourenvironment.Theseincludeactionsperformedby OperationsManager,aswellasactionsperformedbyothermanagementsystemsthatoperateonyourenvironment. Forexample,aVMMovefromOperationsManagercanincludeauditlogentriesforthefollowing: Moveactionrecommended(OperationsManager) Moveactionaccepted(OperationsManager) Moveperformed(HypervisorresponsetoOperationsManagercommand) Movecompleted(OperationsManager)
Theauditlogwouldincludeentriesforeachoftheseevents. Toviewtheauditlog,clicktheReportstool( showthefollowing: )todisplaytheReportsview.Inyourbrowser,theURLshould
http://<Appliance_IP_Address>/persistence/standard_reports/list
TodisplaytheAuditLog,changetheURLtothefollowing:
http://<Appliance_IP_Address>/persistence/audit_log_entries
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TheAuditLog
FromtheAuditLogview,youcanperformvariousactionssuchas: Createanauditlogentryofyourown ExportthelogtoaCSVfile UploadentriesasaCSVfile Deleteselectedentries
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ThePolicyviewprovidessettingstocontrolhowtheOperationsManageranalyzesresourceallocation,howitdisplays resourcestatus,andhowitrecommendsorperformsactions.ThisviewopensthePolicyEditorthatyoucanuseto: Navigatetopolicycategories SpecifythescopeofyoursettingsYoucanmakeglobalsettings,ormakesettingsforgroupsofmachinesor applications. Entersettingvaluesandapplyyourchanges
Tosetapolicy,youfirstselectacategory,andthennavigatetheScopetreetosetthescopeofthepolicychange.The editorthendisplaysthesettingsyoucanmake.Toeditafieldyouclickinitandenteravalue.Whenyouhavemade thesettingsyouwant,besuretoclickApplySettingChanges. Forexample,youcandirectOperationsManagertoautomaticallyresizeallVMsonaspecificdatastore.Todothis, youwouldmakeaselectionsimilartothefollowingfigure,settheResizevalue,andapplythechange.
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PolicyScopeSettoVMsonaSpecificDatastore
Beforeyoumakepolicysettings,youshouldunderstandthescopeofthesesettings,andhowOperationsManager choosesamongcompetingsettings.Formoreinformation,seePolicyScopeonpage 235. Forinformationaboutpolicycategories,andtheeffectsoftheirindividualsettings,seePolicyCategoriesonpage 239.
PolicyScope
Policyscopedetermineswhichresourceswillbeaffectedbythesettingsyoumake.Scopecanbeeither: GlobalSettingsonpage 235:Basesettingsforeachcategorythatapplybydefaulttoallresources GroupOverridesonpage 236:Settingsyouapplytospecificgroupsofresources
GlobalSettings
Tomakeglobalsettings,selectacategory,andifnecessaryselectaresourcetype.Thefollowingimageshowsglobal settingsforactionsonHosts.
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GlobalPolicySettings
Thesearethebasesettingsforalltheresourcesinyourinventory.Thesettingsyoumakeongroupsandindividual resourceswilloverridetheseglobalsettings.
GroupOverrides
Youcanmakesettingstogroupsofresourcesthatoverridetheglobalsettingsfortheresourcetype.(Forinformation aboutdefiningcustomgroups,seeGroupManagementonpage 239.)Asyoumakethesesettings,youshouldbe awareofissuesthatcanarisewith: ConflictingSettingsonpage 236 ToplevelGroupsonpage 238
ConflictingSettings
YoucansetoverridesonanygroupslistedintheProfilesview.However,itspossiblethatindividualmachinesorappli cationsareinmorethanonegroup(seethefollowingillustration).
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SameVMinTwoGroups
Inthiscase,youcouldsetdifferentoverridesforthetwogroups,whichcanthenconflictwitheachotherinthesame resourceinstance.Forexample,assumethefollowingsettingsforVMResizing: TheGlobalsettingisManual TheoverrideforVMs_Beta\Cluster1(inVirtualMachinesbyCluster)isAutomated TheoverrideforVMs_dvVMNetwork(inVirtualMachinesbyNetwork)isRecommend
Inthiscase,twodifferentsettingswillbeassociatedwiththeVMnamedFedora12.Inallsuchconflicts,Operations Managerusesatiebreakertoresolvestheconflict.Inthecaseofactions,thetiebreakerusesthemostconservative setting.Followingthisexample,anyResizeactionsforFedora12willbeoftypeRecommend,becausethatisthemost conservativeofthesettingsforthisVM. Thedocumentationforeachpolicycategorydescribesthetiebreakerforthatcategory. Note:Tiebreakersonlyapplyamongoverridesettings.Forexample,evenifaglobalactionsettingismoreconserva tivethanitsoverride,theoverridetakesprecedence.Butamongtwoormoreoverridesforthesamesetting,thetie breakercomesintoeffect. Youcannavigatetoanyinstanceinthescopetree,seeitseffectivesetting,andalsoseewherethathasbeenset.For example,thefollowingfigureshowsthattheactionmodeforResizeonFedora12isRecommend,anditwassetinthe VMs_dvVMNetworkgroup.
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ViewingtheEffectiveSettingforaVM
ToplevelGroups
Withineachpolicycategory,theeditordisplaysresourcesingroups.Thefollowingfigureshowsgroupsforactionson VMs.
ToplevelGroupsforActions
Noticethateachcategoryhastoplevelgroups.Forexample,theActioncategorysetspoliciesforactionsonVMs, hosts,datastores,andvirtualdatacenters.ForVMactionsthescopetreeshows:
PolicyCategories
VirtualMachines VirtualMachinesbyCluster VirtualMachinesbyNetwork VirtualMachinesbyStorage
Eachoftheseisatoplevelgroup.Beneatheachtoplevelyoucanseetheindividualgroupsthatcontaintheresources. Itslikelythatmostindividualresourcesbelongtoallofthetoplevelgroups.Forexample,itslikelythatasingleVM belongstoVirtualMachinesbyClusterandtoVirtualMachinesbyDatacenter Youshouldnotmakesettingstothetoplevelgroups.Youcouldmakeatoplevelsettingthatalwayswinsatie breaker,andsoallthelowerlevelsettingswouldnevertakeeffect.Ifyousetoverridestoatoplevelgroupafter lowerlevelsettingswerealreadymade,youcouldinadvertentlymakeallthelowerlevelsettingsineffective. Note:Ifyouwanttomakesettingstoallresources(allPMsorallVMs,forexample),thenyoushouldmakeglobal settings(seeGlobalSettingsonpage 235).Youshouldnotmakesettingsinatoplevelgroup.
PolicyCategories
YoucanspecifythefollowingcategoriesofpoliciesonthisinstallationofOperationsManager: GroupManagementonpage 239:CustomgroupsyoudefinetomanageresourcesYoucanusegroupsto managehowOperationsManagerusespolicysettings WorkloadPlacementonpage 244:Importedandusercreatedworkloadplacementpoliciesthatrestricthow OperationsManagercalculatesworkloaddistribution Analysisonpage 246ConstraintsthatOperationsManagercanusetodeterminewhetheraresourceis operatingoptimally ActionModesonpage 254HowOperationsManagerhandlestheexecutionofactionsintheToDolist (automatic,manual,recommend,ordisable) ApplicationPriorityonpage 260Missioncriticalornormal DiscoveryPoliciesonpage 262HowtodiscoverWindowsapplications,andhowtorecognizevCentertags InfrastructureCostonpage 268Grouphardwaredevicesbycostsoyoucanusethosecriteriaforplacement policies EmailandTrapNotificationonpage 271NotificationpoliciesforOperationsManagerevents RetentionConfigurationonpage 274Policiestoretainhistoricaldata
GroupManagement
GroupsassemblecollectionsofresourcesforOperationsManagertomonitorandmanage.WhenusingtheNaviga tionPanel,orwhenorsettingscope,youcanselectgroupstofocusonthosespecificresources.Forexample,ifyou haveanumberofVMsdevotedtoasinglecustomer,youcancreateagroupofjustthoseVMs.WhenrunningaPlan nerscenarioyoucansetthescopetoworkwithjustthatgroup. OperationsManagershipswithsomegroupsalreadydefined.WithGroupManagementyoucanalsocreateyourown groups.OperationsManagersupportstwocustomgroupingmethods:
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BycriteriaYoucreatedynamicgroupsthataredefinedbyspecificsearchcriteria.Youcangroupservices accordingtonamingconventions(allVMnamesthatstartwithny),resourcecharacteristics(allphysical machineswithfourCPUs),orothercriteriasuchastimezoneornumberofCPUs.Thesegroupsaredynamic becauseOperationsManagerupdatesthegroupasconditionschanges. BymanualselectionYoucreatestaticgroupsbyselectingthespecificgroupmembers.
EditingGroups
Whenworkingwithgroupsyoucan: CreatenewgroupsclickthePLUSicon Editanexistinggroupselectagroupandmakechangestoitsproperties DeleteanexistinggroupselectagroupandclicktheXicon
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CreatingaGroup
WhenyouclickthePLUSicon,theGroupBuilderdialogboxappears.Tocreateagroup: 1. Namethegroup.
NamingaNewGroup
2. Tospecifythegroupingcriteria,displaytheMemberstab.
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3. Chooseagroupingmethod. Ifyougroupbycriteria,thegroupwillcontainalltheitemsthatmatchyoursearchcriteria.AsOperationsManager discoversnewentitiesthatmatchyourcriteria,itwilladdtheentitiestothegroup.Tomanuallyselectentities, yousearchforitemsandaddspecificmatchestotheCustomgroupcontentlist. 4. Definethegroupmembers Yousetupsearchestofindthegroupitems.Forsearchcriteria,youchoosethetypeofentitytosearchfor.When youchooseanitemintheSearchcriterialist,thesearchfieldupdatestoaccepttheappropriateinput. Thesearchfieldacceptsregularexpressions.Forhelponregularexpressionsyntax,clicktheQUESTIONMARK button. Whenyouhaveenteredyoursearchcriteria,clickFindmatchestoseewhatentitiesyoursearchspecifies.Ifyou enabledtheGroupByCriteriagroupingmethod,theseitemswillbethemembersofyourgroup.Ifyouenabled theManuallySelectgroupingmethod,youcandragitemsfromthematchlisttotheCustomgroupcontentlist.
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5. ClickCreateGroup. Beforeyoucreatethegroup,youcanmakesettingsforthatgroup,includingwhethertoenableordisablereports forthatgroup(seeGroupSettingsonpage 243,below).Youcanalwaysreturntoagroupandeditittochange thesesettingsatanytime.Also,youcanspecifythesesettingsdirectly,choosinggroupstolimitthescopeofyour changes.Formoreinformation,seePolicyScopeonpage 235. YoucanalsousetheSegmenttabtoseealistingofworkloadplacementpoliciesthatincludethisgroupintheir definitions(seeWorkloadPlacementonpage 244).
GroupSettings
Asyoucreateagroup,youcanspecifythesettingsthatapplytothatgroup.Youcanalsoeditthesesettingsatany time.Thesettingsforagroupdependonthetypeofresourceinthegroup.Forexample,inagroupofPMsyoucannot setconstraintsthatapplytostoragedevices.Foralistingofthesettingsyoucanapplytoagroup,see: Analysisonpage 246 ActionModesonpage 254 ApplicationPriorityonpage 260 DiscoveryPoliciesonpage 262
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SettingActionsModesforaGroup
Foreachgroup,youcanalsoenableordisablereports.Reportsareenabledbydefaultifyouwanttoexcludea givengroupfromreports,makethesettinginthatgroupdefinition.
WorkloadPlacement
Forplanningandoptimization,OperationsManagermakesrecommendationstomoveVMs,andcanexecutethese movesautomatically.WhencalculatingVMmoves,OperationsManagerrespectsclusterboundaries,networks,and provisioneddatastores.Forplanning,youcanalsospecifytheexplicitscopeofascenarioasyoucreateit(seeThe PlanViewonpage 99). WorkloadplacementpoliciesprovideyouwithfinercontroloverhowOperationsManagercalculatesthesemoves. Fromthistabyoucan: Enable/disableimportedplacementpoliciesthatarespecifiedinyourVCenterenvironment Createsegmentpoliciesthatrestrictworkloadplacementaccordingtospecificrules
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ImportingWorkloadPlacementPolicies
Thehypervisorsthatyousetastargetscanincludeplacementpoliciesoftheirown.OperationsManagerimports theseplacementpolicies,andyoucanchoosetoenableordisablethem.Bydefault,OperationsManagerenables importedplacementpolicies.(Forinformationabouttargethypervisors,seeTargetConfigurationonpage 205.) Forexample,VCenterserverscanincludeDistributedResourceScheduler(DRS)rulesthatdetermineplacementof VMsamongphysicalhosts.ForeachDRSrule,youcanspecifywhethertoenableordisableitinOperationsManager. Toseethelistofimportedplacementpoliciesforyourenvironment,expandtheImportedPlacementPoliciesfolder. Toenableordisableapolicy,selectitinthelistandmodifyitssettings.
EnablinganImportedPlacementPolicy
CreatingWorkloadPlacementPolicies
YoucancreateOperationsManagerSegmentpoliciestofurthercontrolhowOperationsManagercalculatestheplace mentofVMsamongyourphysicalhostsanddatastores.Youcancreatepoliciesthathavetheseandothereffects: RestrictthenumberofVMsthatcanuseagivendatastore LimitVMmobilitybyrestrictingacollectionofVMstoaspecifiedclusterorgroupofhosts ImplementsystemredundancybyspecifyingthatcertainVMsalwaysrunondifferenthosts VMsmustnotrunonthesameHost NomorethanthespecifiednumberofVMscanrunonthesamehost. VMsmustnotrunonthesameHost,outofthegivenPMgroup ForhostsfromaspecifiedPMgroup,nomorethanthespecifiednumberofVMscanrunonthesamehost. VMsmustnotbeconnectedtothesameStoragedevice NomorethanthespecifiednumberofVMscanusethesamestoragedevice. VMsmustnotbeconnectedtothesameStorage,outofthegivengroupofStoragedevices Forstoragedevicesfromaspecifiedgroup,nomorethanthespecifiednumberofVMscanusethesamedevice.
FortheVMsinaselectedgroup,youcancreaterulesofthefollowingtypes:
Tocreateasegmentrule,clickthePlusicon(+)todisplaythePolicyBuilder.InthePolicyBuilder:
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Namethesegmentrule ChoosetheworkloadselectaVMgrouptodeterminetheplacementofthesegroupmembers ClickthePLUSicontoopenagroupbrowser,anddoubleclickthegroupyouwanttochoose. ChoosetheplacementselectagroupofphysicaldevicestodeterminehowtheVMscanbeplacedonthese members ClickthePLUSicontoopenagroupbrowser,anddoubleclickthegroupyouwanttochoose. TurnontheLimitworkloadcheckboxtoenabletheruleandlimittheworkloadtothetargetplacementgroup OptionallylimitthenumberofVMstoplaceoneachphysicaldevice ClickCreateRule
Forexample,thefollowingfigureshowsapolicyforplacingVMsdevotedtodatabases.ForalltheVMsinthecluster setintheChooseWorkloadlist,thepolicylimitsplacementtooneVMperphysicalhostinthecustomgroup, DB_Hosts.
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Analysis
AsOperationsManagergathersmetrics,itcomparesthemetricvaluesagainstspecifiedconstraintandcapacityset tingstodeterminewhetherametricexhibitsaproblem,howtorecommendaproblemresolution,andsoon.Opera tionsManagermaintainsanalysissettingsforHostandStoragedevices. ThefollowingfigureshowsoverridesettingsforallNASstoragedevices.Tomakesettingsforallstoragedevicesinthe environment,youshouldmakeglobalsettingsforAnalysis>HostorAnalysis>Storage(seeGlobalSettingson page 235).
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TiebreakResults
Whenthesameresourceinstancehasconflictingsettings,themostconservativesettingwins:
Settingtype:
Utilization,throughput,andupperbounds Latencyandlowerbounds
Mostconservativeis:
Lowestvalue Highestvalue
HowOperationsManagerRespondstoAnalysisSettings
OperationsManagercomparesutilizationmetricsinyourenvironmenttotheoperationalconstraintsyouspecify.It usesthatcomparisontotriggerproblemnotificationsandtoclassifytheproblems.Thevaluesyousetherespecify maximumvaluesforeachmetric.Basedonthosesettings,OperationsManagerclassifiesthesemetricsasfollows:
Ifthevalueis:
Morethan80%oftheconstraintsetting Morethan60%andlessthan80%ofsetting Lessthan10%andmorethan5%ofsetting Lessthan5%ofanalysissetting
Theclassificationis:
Criticallyoverutilized Overutilized Underutilized Criticallyunderutilized
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LoadBalancerSettings
Tomanageloadbalancers,OperationsManagertrackstransactionsthatoccuronthevirtualapplications(vservers) eachloadbalancermanages.Youcansetthecapacityoftransactionspersecondasapolicyforvirtualapplications. OperationsManagerwilllisttransactionutilizationasapercentageofthecapacityyouset.:
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OperationalSettings HardwareCosts
Forplanningandreporting,OperationsManagerusesthesevaluestoestimatethecostofchangestoyourhardware inventory.Thefollowingtableshowsthedefaultsettingsforhardwarecost:
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HostHardwareCost CostofCPUperunit CostofmemoryperGB CostofstorageperTB
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HeatmapCriticalUtilization
OperationsManagercomparesutilizationmetricsinyourenvironmenttotheoperationalconstraintsyouspecify(see UtilizationConstraintsonpage 251andStorageSettingsonpage 253).Itusesthatcomparisontosetcolorednotifica tionsinheatmaps,triggerproblemnotifications,andtoclassifytheproblemsitfinds.Thevaluesyousetheredefine whatOperationsManagerconsiderscriticalviolationsfordifferentmetrics. Forexample,assumeyoudefinecriticalas80%forametric.Basedonthesettingsyoumakeforthemonitoredmet rics,OperationsManagerthenclassifiesthesemetricsasfollows:
Ifthevalueis:
Morethan80%oftheconstraintsetting Morethan60%andlessthan80%ofsetting
Criticallyoverutilized Overutilized
Forunderutilization,assumeyoudefinecriticalas10%forametric.Basedonthesettingsyoumakeforthemoni toredmetrics,OperationsManagerthenclassifiesthesemetricsasfollows:
Ifthevalueis:
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Ifthevalueis:
Lessthan5%ofanalysissetting
Criticallyunderutilized
Thefollowingtableshowsthedefaultsettingsforcriticalutilization:
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CriticalUtilizationPercentforIOPS CriticalUtilizationPercentforCPU CriticalUtilizationPercentforMemory CriticalUtilizationPercentforIOThroughput CriticalUtilizationPercentforNetThroughput CriticalUtilizationPercentforSwapping CriticalUtilizationPercentforLatency CriticalUtilizationPercentforStorageAmount
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80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
ReportingUpperandLowerBounds
Thefollowingtableshowsthedefaultsettingsforoperationalconstraintsonvirtualmachines. UpperboundslimittheamountofaphysicalresourcethatwillbedevotedtoaVMconsumer.Forexample,witha VMemupperboundof85OperationsManagerwillneverdevotemorethan85%ofphysicalmemorytoVMsrunning onahost.Thisensuresthehostmachinehasenoughphysicalmemorytoperformcoreoperations. LowerboundsidentifythepercentageutilizationthatOperationsManagerwillconsiderunderutilized.Forexample, withaVMemlowerboundof10,ifutilizationfallsbelow10%OperationsManagerwillconsidermigratingconsumers toanotherhostandsuspendingtheunderutilizedphysicalmachine.
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VMemUtilizationUpperBound VCPUUtilizationUpperBound VMemUtilizationLowerBound VCPUUtilizationLowerBound VStorageUtilizationUpperBound VStorageUtilizationLowerBound
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85 85 10 10 85 10
ResizeRecommendationSettings
WhenOperationsManagerrecommendschangestovirtualresources,itusesincrementsasitcalculateshowmuchto raiseorlowerthegivenvalue,andaRateofResizetospecifyhowmanyincrementstoapplyinasingleresizeaction.
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Note:ForCloudStackenvironments,resizeisdeterminedbytemplates.ResizeIncrementshavenoeffect.However, RateofResizecanaffectwhichtemplateOperationsManagerwilluseforaresizeoperation.Assumeanenvironment withsmall,medium,andlargetemplates,andaVMthatissettosmallneedstoberesizedtolarge.IftheRateofResize issettoLow,OperationsManagermighttrythemediumtemplatefirst.However,ifthesettingisHigh,thenOpera tionsManagerwillprobablyusethelargetemplatefortheinitialresizeoperation. ResizeIncrements TheincrementsspecifyhowmanyunitstoaddorsubtractwhenresizingthegivenresourceallocationforaVM.For example,itmakessensetochangeVMEMbystepsof1024MBatatime,butforVStorageitsbettertomakechanges by0.5GBsteps. ThefollowingtableshowsthedefaultsettingsfortheResizeincrements:
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IncrementconstantforVMemofVirtualMachine[MB] IncrementconstantforVCPUofVirtualMachine[MHz] IncrementconstantforVStorageofVirtualMachine[GB] IncrementconstantforStorageAmountofVolumesand Aggregates[GB]
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1024 1800 100000 100
Note:ForVMem,youshouldnotsettheincrementvaluebelow1024.VirtualmachinesrelyonVMemtostartupand run.ForaVMthatisunderutilized,OperationsManagerwillreduceVMemallocationbytheincrementamount,but itwillnotleaveaVMwithzeroVMem.Forexample,ifyousetthisto512,thenOperationsManagercouldreducethe memoryforaVMto512Kb.ItspossiblethatIftheincrementistoolow,thenOperationsManagermightallocate insufficientVMemforthemachinetooperate. RateofResize WhenresizingresourcesforaVM,OperationsManagercalculatestheoptimalvaluesforVMEM,VCPUandVStorage. Butitdoesnotnecessarilymakeachangetothatvalueinoneaction.OperationsManagerusestheRateofResizeset tingtodeterminehowtomakethechangeinasingleaction,asfollows: Low Changethevaluebyoneincrement,only.Forexample,iftheresizeactioncallsforincreasingVMEM,andthe incrementissetat1024,OperationsManagerincreasesVMEMby1024MB. Medium Changethevaluetobehalfwaybetweenthecurrentvalue,andtheoptimalvalue.Forexample,ifthecurrent VMEMis2GBandtheoptimalVMEMis8GB,thenOperationsManagerwillraiseVMEMto5GB(orascloseto thatastheincrementconstantwillallow). High Changethevaluetobetheoptimalvalue.Forexample,ifthecurrentVMEMis2GBandtheoptimalVMEMis8 GB,thenOperationsManagerwillraiseVMEMto8GB(orasclosetothatastheincrementconstantwillallow).
ThedefaultsettingforRateofResizeisMedium.
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UtilizationConstraints
OperationsManagerusestheconstraintsyousetforspecificmetricswhenitanalyzesyourenvironmentandrecom mendschangesthatwillachievetheoptimaltargets. Thefollowingtableshowsthedefaultsettingsforoperationalconstraintsonphysicalmachines.
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StorageAmountUtilization StorageIOPSUtilization HostCPUUtilization HostMemoryUtilization HostIOThroughput HostNetThroughput SwitchNetThroughput NetworkNetThroughput HostSwappingUtilization StorageLatencyUtilization CPUOverprovisionedPercentage MemOverprovisionedPercentage
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100 100 100 100 20 20 70 100 20 100 1000 1000
Advanced
Theadvancedsettingsadjusttheoverallanalysisperformedbytheeconomicschedulingengine.Theyadjusthow OperationsManagercalculatesrecommendedactions,aswellasthedesiredstateOperationsManagerwilltryto achieveforyourenvironment. Price PricesettingsaffecthowtheEconomicSchedulingEngineassignsavirtualpricewhenrecommendingactions.The TimeRangeConstantsetsthenumberofdaysworthofhistoricaldataOperationsManagerwillusewhenmakingrec ommendationstodecreasetheresourcesavailabletoaVMorapplication.OperationsManagermakessuggestionsto reduceresourcesonadailybasis. (NotethatOperationsManagercanmakerecommendationstoincreaseresourcesevery10minutecycle.Forthese recommendationsitlooksback24hours.) Weightsforpeaksandaveragesspecifythedegreetowhichhistoricpeakandaveragemetricvalueswillaffectcalcula tions.ThesesettingsareawaytoattenuatetheEconomicSchedulingEnginesresponsetoeventsintheenvironment. Ahigherweightforhistoricpeaksoraveragesreducestheimpactofcurrentpeaksoraverages. Forexample,assumeyouhaveapplicationsthatuse100%CPUforshorttransientevents.Toreducetheimpactof thesetransients,youcansetahighervalueforWeightforPeaks.Asaresult,OperationsManageronlyrespondsto longerlastingeventsof100%CPUutilization. ThefollowingtableshowsthedefaultsettingsforoverallOperationsManagersettings.
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TimeRangeConstant WeightforPeaks WeightforAverages
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100 99 50
DesiredState Thedesiredstateforyourenvironmentisanndimensionalspherethatencompassesthefittestconditionsyourenvi ronmentcanachieve.Themultipledimensionsofthisspherearedefinedbytheresourcemetricsinyourenviron ment.MetricdimensionsincludeVMem,storage,CPU,etc.Whilethemetricsonthedevicesinyourenvironmentcan beanyvalue,thedesiredstate,thisndimensionalsphere,isthesubsetofmetricvaluesthatassuresthebestperfor mancewhileachievingthemostefficientutilizationofresourcesthatispossible. TheDesiredStatesettingsdefinethecenterofthesphereaswellasitsdiameter.Thisisawayforyoutocustomize whatOperationsManagerconsiderstobethedesiredstate. SettingthecenterofthespherechoosesthepriorityforOperationsManageranalysis.Ifyousetthebalanceinfavor ofefficiency,OperationsManagertendstoplacemoreVMsonfewerphysicalhosts,andtogivestoragecapacityfrom fewerdatastores.Asaresult,highutilizationcanhavemoreimpactonQoS.Withabalanceinfavorofperformance, OperationsManagertendstospreadvirtualloadsacrossmorephysicaldevices.Thiscanresultintheprovisioningof excessresources. Thediametersettingdeterminestherangeofdeviationfromthecenterthatcanencompassthedesiredstate.Ifyou specifyalargediameter,OperationsManagerwillhavemorevariationinthewayitdistributesworkloadacrosshost ingdevices. Asyoumoveeachslider,atooltipdisplaysthenumericalvalueofthesetting.Centerindicatesthepercentageof resourceutilizationyouwant,withintherangeyouspecifyasDiameter.Forexample,ifyouwantutilizationof75%, plusorminus10%,thenyouwouldsetCenter=75andDiameter=20.OperationsManagerrecommendsactionsthat tendtowardthisdesiredstatemuchaspossible,giventhedependencieswithinthecurrentenvironment. Note:ThesettingforTargetUtilizationcanhaveaneffectonplansthatyourun.Ifyoudisableprovisioningandsuspen sionforhostsanddatastores,thenyoushouldalwayssetCenterandDiametertotheirdefaultvalues.(Formoreinfor mationabouthardwareprovisioninginplans,seeHWManagementonpage 129.) ThefollowingtableshowsthedefaultsettingsforDesiredState:
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Center Diameter
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StorageSettings
StorageandDiskArrayOverprovisionedPercentagesethowmuchoverprovisioningOperationsManagerassumes whenrecommendingactionsforVMdatastoresanddiskarrays.Forexample,ifadatastorehasa30GBcapacity,and StorageOverprovisionedPercentageissetto200,OperationsManagerwillassumethedatastorehasacapacityof60 GB. Forcapacity,youspecifytheIOPS(inputoperationspersecond)andlatencyinmsthatyourstoragedevicescansup port.IOPSCapacityisthesettingfordatastores.ThevariousDiskIOPSCapacitysettings(SSDDiskIOPS,7.2kDisk IOPS,etc)areforthedifferenttypesofphysicaldrivesthatmightbeonadiskarray.OperationsManagerconsiders thesesettingswhencalculatingutilizationpercentage.Forexample,assumeIOPSCapacityof500,andLatencyof 1000ms.Ifastoragedevicehas250IOPS,thenitisat50%ofcapacityforthatmetric.(SeeUtilizationConstraintson page 251forinformationabouthowOperationsManagerusespercentageutilized.) ThesettingforDirectoriestoIgnorespecifiesdirectoriesthatOperationsManagerwillnotconsiderwhenlookingfor wasteddatastoragespace.OperationsManageralsoignoresanyfilesthatarelistedinFilestoignore.Separateitems intheselistswiththeORbar(|).ForinformationabouthowOperationsManagershowswastedstorage,see WastedStorageonpage 73intheDashboardsview. ThesettingtolockVMstoastorageclusterspecifieswhetherOperationsManagerwillrespectstorageclusterbound arieswhenmovingaVMsdatastoretoanotherstoragedevice.Whenthisisenabled,ifagivendatastoreiscurrently onadevicewithinastoragecluster,thenanymoveofthatdatastorewillbetoadevicethatisonthesamestorage cluster.
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Storage Overprovisioned Percentage DiskArray Overprovisioned Percentage StorageLatency IOPSCapacity SSDDiskIOPS Capacity 7.2kDiskIOPS Capacity 10kDiskIOPS Capacity 15kDiskIOPS Capacity Directoriesto Ignore FilestoIgnore LockVMsto StorageCluster
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200
100 5000 50000 80 120 160 \.dvsData.*|\.snapshots.*|\.vSphere-HA.*|\.naa.*|\.etc.*|lost\+found.* Unchecked
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SwitchSettings
ThesesettingsareforthepercentageofnetworkthroughputcapacityassignedtoagivenStorageControllerIOmod uleoraFabricInterconnect.OperationsManagerrecommendsactionsthattrytokeepthroughputbelowthespeci fiedpercentageoftheswitchcapacity.
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SwitchNet Throughput
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ActionModes
WhenOperationsManageruncoverspotentialbottlenecks,overprovisioning,orotherissues,itcanthenidentifyand performactionsthatwillpreventthoseissuesfromoccurring,andkeeptheenvironmentintheOptimalOperating Zone.YoucanspecifyactionmodesthatdeterminehowOperationsManagerhandlestheactionsitidentifiesfor switches,diskarrays,datastores,hosts,andVMs.
ActionAutomationSupport
OperationsManagerdoesntautomatethesameactionsequallyforalltechnologies.Thisisbecausetheunderlying technologiesdonotprovidethesamedegreeofautomation.Forexample,assumeyousettheSuspendactiontobe automatedforallVMs.Inthatcase,OperationsManagercanautomatesuspensionforVMsmanagedbyvCenterand XenServer,butitcannotautomaticallysuspendVMsmanagedbyHyperV.NotethatOperationsManagerwillper formautomationfortheVMsthatitcan,andrecommendsuspensionforHyperVVMs. ThefollowingtablelistsactionsOperationsManagersupportsoneachentity,showingwhethertheunderlyingtech nologysupportsautomation,orrecommendedonlyactions. indicatesfullautomationsupport indicatesrecommendedonlyactions
VMActions
Action
Start Move Suspend Remove(Terminate)
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Change(MovetoDifferent Storage) AddStorage RemoveStorage Reconfigure(Changenetworkand storageconfigurations) Resize(ChangeVCPUand memorycapacities)
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Start Suspend Remove(Terminate) Provision
vCenter
XenServer
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Remove(Terminate) Provision
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VirtualDatacenterActions
FordirectactionsonVCloudDirectorandCloudStackvirtualdatacenters,OperationsManageronlysupportsresize actions.However,OperationsManagerdoesautomateactionsfortheunderlyingentities(VMsandhosts)thatare managedbythevirtualdatacenter.However,notethatCloudStackdoesnotsupportVMotionofstorage.
Action
Resize(ChangeVCPUandmemory capacities)
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Start Move Suspend Provision Resize
NetApp
Switch(FabricInterconnect)Actions
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Start Move Suspend Provision Resize
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ActionModeSettings
ForeachactionOperationsManagercanperformyoucanspecifytheactionmode,orhowitwillhandletheaction. OperationsManagersupportsthefollowingactionmodes: DisabledDonotrecommendorperformtheaction RecommendedRecommendtheactionsoausercanperformitusingthegivenhypervisororbyothermeans ManualRecommendtheaction,andprovidetheoptiontoperformthatactionthroughtheVMTurbo OperationsManageruserinterface AutomatedOperationsManagerperformstheactionautomatically
ThefollowingfigureshowsoverridesettingsforagroupofDevelopmenthosts.Inthiscase,OperationsManagerwill automaticallystartphysicalmachinesinthisgroup.Tosetmodesforallhostsintheenvironment,youshouldmake globalhostsettingsforthegivenactions(seeGlobalSettingsonpage 235).
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SettingActionModesforaGroup
TogetthebestresultsfromOperationsManagersIntelligentWorkloadManagement,youshouldsetasmanyactions aspossibletoAutomated.Inthatcase,youshouldsettheactionstoAutomatedatthegloballevel.Ifsomeclusters runapplicationsthatarehighlycritical,youcanoverridetheglobalsettingforthoseclusters,andsetthemtoManual.
SchedulingActionRestrictionWindows
Forsomeclustersorgroupsofdevices,youmightwanttoautomateactions,butonlyduringoffpeakhours.Opera tionsManagerincludesaschedulingutilitythatyoucanusetospecifytimewindowswhenyoucanrestricttheaction modeforagivenscopeofdevices.Youcanusethistoallowordisallowautomationforagivenwindowoftime. Note:TheOperationsManagerEconomicSchedulingEnginecontinuallycalculatesactionsthatcauseyourenviron menttoconvergeontheOptimalOperatingZone.Theseactionsareinresponsetotheenvironmentatagivenpoint intime.Whenyourestricttheautomationofagivenactiontoacertaintimewindow,OperationsManagerwillonly calculateandperformactionsthatareappropriatefortheenvironmentduringthatscheduledwindow.Youshould reviewmanualactionsduringtimeperiodswhenautomationisrestricted,soyoucanmanuallyadjusttheenvironment inresponsetopeakstates. Bydefault,theglobalsettingsforallactionshavenorestrictionwindowssetforthem.IfyougloballysettheVMMove actiontoAutomated,thenVMTurboOperationsManagerwillautomaticallyexecuteanyrecommendedVMmove actionswhenevertheyarise24hoursaday,7daysaweek.Actionrestrictionwidowsmodifythis,forglobalpolicies orasoverridestoglobalpoliciesscopedtospecificgroups.(Forinformationaboutpolicyscope,seeGlobalSettingson page 235.) Forexample,assumeyouwanttoalwaysautomateResizeforallbutthemostcriticalVMs.YouwouldsetResizeVMs toAutomatedatagloballevel.Thenforacriticalcluster,youcouldsetarestrictionwindowthatoverridestheauto mation(setsResizetoManual)duringpeakhours(9:00to5:00mf).
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Youcanalsorestrictactionmodesinreversefashion.Forexample,ifyouwanttoautomateonlyonesetofVMs,you cansetResizetoManualatthegloballevel,andforoneclusteryoucanscheduleittobeAutomatedforagiventime window. CreatingaSimpleActionRestrictionWindow Toscheduleatimewindowforanautomatedaction: 1. Setthescopeforthisaction. Youcansetglobalscope,orscopeforagivencluster.
2. ClickViewScheduletoopentherestrictionswindowspanelandthenclickNewActionRestrictionWindow. Youcanselectthewindowstartdatebeforehandinthecalendar,orsetitasyoucreatethepolicy. 3. Specifythesettingsforthisrestrictionwindow. Thedaterangedetermineshowmanydaysthewindowwillopen,orinbeineffect.Youshouldkeepthe followingpointsinmind: Anonrecurringwindowhasastartdate,andnoenddate.Thewindowwillopenforthedayyouspecifyas thestartdate. Forrecurringwindowsyouspecifyadaterange.Thewindowwillopenduringtimeswithinthatrange. Formonthlyrecurrence,thewindowwillopenonedayeachmonthonthedayyousetfortheStartDate. ButthewindowrecurrenceremainsineffectuntiltheEndDate.Forexample,ifyouspecifythe1January1st 20123forthestartdate,andtheDecember31st2013fortheenddate,thewindowwillopenonthefirstday ofeachmonthforthatyear. Foranygivenday,thewindowcanbeineffectfrom00:00through24:00.Ifyouwantanactionmodetospantwo days,youmustspecifytworestrictionwindows.Forexample,toenableautomationfrom22:00to06:00,youmust createtwowindowsOnfrom22:00to24:00,andanotherfrom0:00to06:00. Notethatyoucansetdifferentlabelcolorsforyourrestrictionwindows.Thisisagoodwaytotrackwindowsofa similartype.Forexample,youcoulduseredforwindowsoncriticalclusters,andgreenforwindowsonproto typingclusters.
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4. Whenyouhavethesettingsyouwant,clickCreate. Therestrictionwindowappearsinthecalendar.Whenyouselectadayinthecalendar,theActionRestriction Windowslistshowsalltheitemsforthatday.Hoveroveranitemtodisplaydetailsinatooltip.
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TiebreakResults
Itspossiblethatdifferentrestrictionwindowswillaffectthesameresourceinstance.Inthatcasethemostconserva tivesettingwins.Thefollowinglistisfrommostconservativetomostaggressive: Disabled Recommended Manual Automated
ApplicationPriority
ApplicationprioritydeterminestheconditionsunderwhichOperationsManagerrecommendstosuspendortermi nateaVM.SuspendingaVMmeanspoweringitdown,butleavingitintheinthehypervisorslistofmanagedVMs. TerminatingaVMmeansremovingitfromthehypervisor.WhenOperationsManagerrecommendsthatyoutermi nateaVM,thisindicatesthattheVMisdormant,andnoapplicationsarerunningonit. Note:YourenvironmentmayincludesomeVMsthatyouneverwanttoterminate.Youmightthinkthatyoucanset allapplicationstoMissionCriticalasawaytodirectthatOperationsManagerneverrecommendstermination.Infact, OperationsManagercanrecommendthatyouterminateadormantVMthathasMissionCriticalapplicationsonit.If
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youwanttoneverterminate,thenyoucandisabletheTerminateactionforallVMsorforagroupofVMs.Formore information,seeActionModesonpage 254. OperationsManagermonitorsresourceconsumption,andworkstokeepMissionCriticalapplicationsrunning.Ifa MissionCriticalapplicationneedsresourcesandnoneareimmediatelyavailable,OperationsManagermayrecom mendsuspendingnoncriticalVMstofreeupresourcesandmakethemavailabletothecriticalapplication. Youcanspecifythepriorityforapplicationstobe: MissionCriticalThefocusofOperationsManageristokeeptheapplicationsrunning.Forexample,itwillnever suggestsuspendingtheVMthathostsamissioncriticalapplication. NormalOperationsManagermaysuggestsuspendingaVMthathostsnormalapplicationstofreeupresources thatamissioncriticalapplicationmightneed. LowOperationsManagerdoesnotconsidertheneedsoflowpriorityapplicationswhencalculatingtheoptimal operatingzoneforyourenvironment. ApplicationsEachgroupisnamedforadiscoveredapplication,andcontainsalltheinstancesofthatnamed application. PhysicalMachinesForeachphysicalmachines,alltheapplicationsrunningonthatmachine.
Youspecifyapplicationprioritytogroups.Themostimportantgroupsforapplicationpriorityare:
IfaVMhasanyMissionCriticalapplicationsonit,OperationsManagerwillalwaystrytofindresourcesforthatVM, andwillneverrecommendsuspendingitinordertofreeupresources.OperationsManagercanrecommendtermi natingaVMwithMissionCriticalapplications,iftheVMistrulydormant. ForaVMwithallNormalapplications,iftheVMusesresourcesthatareneededelsewhere,thenOperationsManager mayrecommendsuspendingthisVM.ForaVMwithLowpriorityapplications,itcanrecommendtoterminatetheVM tofreeupresources. Bydefault,allapplicationsareMissionCritical(seetheGlobalSettingforApplicationPriority). Note:ForeachVMOperationsManagerdefinesaGuestLoadapplication.TheGuestLoadrepresentsallconsumption thatOperationsManagercannotassigntoaspecificapplication.ThisincludesprocessesfortheVMsoperating system.OperationsManagerignoresGuestLoadprioritywhendecidinghowtofreeupresources.However,ifaVM hasonlytheGuestLoadapplicationonit,andthatapplicationissettoLow,thenOperationsManagermayrecommend terminatingthatVM. Thefollowingfigureshowsoverridesettingsfortheapplicationshostedbyuseaspecificphysicalmachine.Tosetpri orityforallapplicationsintheenvironment,youshouldmakeglobalsettingsforApplicationPriority(seeGlobalSet tingsonpage 235).
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SettingPriorityfortheApplicationsonaSpecificHost
TiebreakResults
Whenthesameresourceinstancehasconflictingsettings,themostconservativesettingwins.Thefollowinglistis frommostconservativetomostaggressive: MissionCritical Normal Low
DiscoveryPolicies
OperationsManagersweepsthroughyourenvironmenttodiscovertheinventoryitems(applications,VMs,hosts, datastores,etc.)inyourenvironment.Itperformsinitialdiscoverywhenyoufirststartitandaddtargethypervisors, andeventsthatcanchangetheinventorytriggersubsequentdiscovery.Youcansetpoliciestodirect: ApplicationDiscoveryonpage 262ApplicationSignatures(howOperationsManagerrecognizesapplication processes),andcredentialstoaccesstheVMsthathosttheapplications LoadBalancerDiscoveryonpage 266Mappingapplicationsignaturestovirtualapplications vCenterAnnotationGroupingonpage 268ThevCentertagstouseforgrouping
ApplicationDiscovery
OperationsManagerdiscoversapplicationsviaWMI(forapplicationsonWindowsVMs)andSNMPorJMX(forappli cationsonotherVMs).Tokeepthelistofdiscoveredapplicationscurrent,OperationsManagerpollstheenvironment every20minutes. Note:ForSNMPmonitoring,OperationsManagerreceivestrapmessagesviaport162. ForOperationsManagertoperformapplicationdiscovery,itrequires:
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TheappropriateagentrunningonthegivenVM ForVMsrunningWindows,theVMmusthaveaWMIagentrunningonit ForSNMPdiscovery,VMsmustrunLinux,andtheVMmusthavearunningSNMPagent ForJMXdiscovery,theJVMonthevirtualmachinemustbestartedwithajmxremoteport VMAccessCredentialsonpage 264forthegivenprotocol(WMI,SNMP,orJMX) ApplicationSignaturesonpage 263toidentifytheapplicationsyouwanttodiscoverandmanage Applicationsignaturesidentifyrunningprocessesthatbelongtoaspecificapplication.OperationsManagerships withadefaultsetofapplicationsignaturesyoucanaddotherstothelist.
DefaultApplicationDiscovery
Bydefault,OperationsManagerdiscoversthefollowingapplications:
ApplicationName
MSSQL IIS LSASS XenDesktop VMView SharePoint GuestLoad
Description
MicrosoftSQLServer MicrosoftInternetInformationServices MicrosoftActiveDirectoryservices CitrixXenDesktop VMWareView MicrosoftSharepointServer TheresourcesthatOperationsManagerhasnotassignedtoanyspecificapplication(formore information,seeGuestLoadonpage 160)
ApplicationSignatures
Anapplicationsignatureisasearchstringthatmatchesprocessnames.Asingleapplicationmaylaunchanumberof processestoperformitsjob.Ratherthantrackingeachprocessasaseparateapplication,OperationsManagercan grouptheseprocessesandmonitorthegroupasasingleapplication. Eachprocessmusthaveauniquename,buteachprocessnametypicallyincludespartofthenameofthemainappli cation,orsomeothertextthatidentifiesitaspartoftheoverallapplication.Thisnamethatssharedinalltheprocess namesistheapplicationsignature. NotethatthesameapplicationsignatureisvalidforWMIandSNMPapplicationdiscovery.Whenyoumakethelistof signatures,youdonotneedtoidentifywhatprotocolwillbeusedtomonitorthem.AsOperationsManagerscansa VMforapplicationprocesses,itusesthefulllistofsignatures,nomatterwhattheoperatingsystemisforthatVM. Tospecifyanapplicationsignature: 1. SelectApplicationDiscoverytodisplaytheeditor. 2. Createanewapplicationsignature. 3. Provideanapplicationname. Applicationnamesshouldbeunique.Ifyouprovideanamethatisidenticaltoadefaultapplicationname(as describedinDefaultApplicationDiscoveryonpage 263),thenOperationsManagerwilluseyourcustomapplica tionsignaturewhengroupingapplicationprocesses.
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4. EnterregularexpressionstoidentifythecharactersthatmustbeinaWindowsprocessname. Youcanalsospecifycharactersthatmustnotbeintheprocessname.Anyprocessnamethatsatisfiestheappli cationsignatureidentifiesamemberofthegivenapplication. Forexample,assumethefollowingstrings:Match:s.*Nomatch:sq.* Inthiscase,thesignaturewouldmatchallprocessnamesthatbeginwith's',exceptthosethatbeginwith'sq'.
CreatingApplicationSignatures
VMAccessCredentials
Todiscoverandmonitorapplications,OperationsManagerusesWMIonVMsrunningWindows,andSNMPorJMXon otherVMs.YoumustprovidevalidcredentialsforanyoftheVMsthathostapplicationsyouwanttomonitor. Note:ForWMIapplicationdiscoveryandmanagement,thegiventargethypervisorrequiresspecificpermissionsthat allowWMIaccess.Formoreinformation,seeHyperVTargetsonpage 210.
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YouselectVMgroupsandsetspecificcredentialsforthoseVMs.Youcanselectatoplevelgrouptoprovideonesetof credentialsforalltheVMsintheinventory,andthenselectlowerlevelgroupstooverridethemoregeneralsettings (formoreaboutsettingsoverrides,seePolicyScopeonpage 235). NotethatyousetcredentialstogroupsofVMs,nottoindividualVMs.TodiscoverapplicationsonalltheVMsina group,allthoseVMsmusthonorthesamecredentials.IftheVMsindefaultgroupingsdontallhavethesamecreden tials,youcancreatecustomgroupstokeepthesamecredentialstogether.Forinformationaboutcreatingcustom groups,seeGroupManagementonpage 239. YoucanspecifyWMI,SNMP,andJMXaccesscredentialsforthesamegroup.Forexample,ifthegroupincludesVMs runningWindowsandLinux,youshouldspecifybothavalidwindowsadminaccount,andavalidSNMPcommunity. ForallVMsinthegroup,iftheyarerunningWindowsthentheymusthonortheprovidedadmincredentials;forother operatingsystems,theymusthonortheprovidedSNMPcommunity. Thesettingstomakeare: Username:Auserwithadminrightsonthemachine Password:Thatuserspassword SNMPCommunity:Acommunitystringthatisvalidonthemachine JMXProtocol:CanbeRMIorJMXMP JMXPort:TheportnumberofthejmxremoteportfortheVMsJVM JMXURL:TheURLthatOperationsManagerusestoestablishaclientconnectionwiththeVMsJVM RetryInterval:TheminimumamountoftimetowaitbeforetryingtologintoamachineagainItscommonto configuremachinessotheywilllockoutanyloginattemptsafteracertainnumberofunsuccessfulattempts.The lockouttypicallystaysineffectforagiventime(15or30minutes,forexample).OperationsManagerlogsinto pollforapplicationsevery20minutes.Youshouldsettheretryintervaltoavaluelargerthanthelockouttimethat isspecifiedforthemachine.Thiswillavoidunnecessarylockoutsincasethecredentialsyouprovidehereare incorrect.Thedefaultretryintervalvalueis60minutes.
ThefollowingfigureshowssettingsfortheapplicationsthatrunonVMsinaspecificcluster.Tosetcredentialsforall VMsintheenvironment,youwouldselectatoplevelitemintheScopelist.
SettingDiscoveryCredentialsforApplicationsinaCluster
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Credentialsareinherited.Forexample,youcanselectthetoplevelgroupVirtualMachinesandprovideonesetof credentials.Thenyoucanselectlowerlevelgroupsandprovideoverridecredentials.Thelowestlevelcredentialspec ificationwins. ThefollowingimageshowssettingsforallVMs(thetoplevelgroup).ThismeansthatbydefaultOperationsManager willusethesecredentialswhenitperformsapplicationdiscoveryonaVM:
ThenextimageshowssettingsforaspecificVM.YoucannotmakesettingsonindividualVMs,butyoucanseethe username,andyoucanalsoseewhichgroupsettingisineffect.Inthiscase,OperationsManagerwillusethesecre dentialsforapplicationdiscoveryonthatVM.
NotethattheApplicationDiscoverytableshowswherethisVMscredentialsareset.Inthiscase,theyaresetinthe toplevelgroup(VirtualMachines).ItspossibleforoneVMtobelongtomanygroups.Ifyouneedtochangethecre dentialsforthismachine,youknowwheretheyarecurrentlyset.Youcancreateanothergrouptosetdifferentcre dentialsforthisVM.
LoadBalancerDiscovery
Loadbalancersusevirtualapplications(sometimescalledvServers)tomanagerequeststoadefinedsetofrunning applications.Virtualapplicationsaredividedbyservicetype.OperationsManagerdiscoverstheservicetypesthatare definedfortheloadbalancersinyourenvironment. TodefinewhichapplicationsOperationsManagerassociateswithloadbalancerservicetypes,youassignanapplica tionsignaturetoeachservicetype.Theapplicationsignaturesshouldidentifyapplicationsthatarecurrentlyboundto specificloadbalancers.(Applicationbindingtoloadbalancersispartoftheloadbalancerconfiguration.)
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Toassignsignaturestoaloadbalancerservicetype,youmustfirsthavedefinedappropriatesignaturesforthespecific applicationsrunninginyourenvironment.Forinformationaboutdefiningapplicationsignatures,seeApplicationDis coveryonpage 262.Whenyouhavetheappropriateapplicationsignatures,youcanthenassignsignaturestoload balancerservicetypes. 1. ChooseDiscovery>LoadBalancerintheCategorylist. Alistofloadbalancersappears.ThesearetheloadbalancersyousetupastargetsintheAdminview(seeAdding LoadBalancersasTargetsonpage 214). 2. Assignapplicationsignaturestoaloadbalancersservicetypes. Expandtheloadbalanceryouwantandselectaservicetype.Clickintherightcolumntochoosefromthecurrently definedapplicationsignatures.
AssigningApplicationSignaturestoLoadBalancerServiceTypes
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vCenterAnnotationGrouping
vCenterServerannotationsareawayforuserstoclassifytheirVMsaccordingtocustomnames.Forexample,the vCenteradministratormayusetagsforDepartment,Owner,andTeam.Eachoneofthesetagsisawaytoclassifythe VMs.Theadministratorcanthenassignvaluestoeachtag,whichfurtherclassifiestheVMs.Forexample,theVMscan begroupedintotwodepartmentsasawaytodistinguishVMsforSalesfromVMsforDevelopment. OperationsManagercanusetheseannotationstomanagevCenterVMsingroups.Thefollowingfigureshowstwo departmentalgroups.ThiscorrespondstotheVMsinvCenterthathavebeengiveneitherDemoorEngineeringval uesfortheirDepartmentannotations.NotethatOperationsManagerfullyrecognizesthesegroups.Youcansetscope (foruseraccountsorplans),generatereports,anduseothergrouprelatedfeatures. TospecifyhowOperationsManagerdiscoversannotations,displayVCAnnotationsandenterastring.Thestring nameseachannotation,separatedbyanORbar.Donotincludespacesateithersideoftheseparator.
SpecifyingAnnotationNames
InfrastructureCost
Oftenyouwillhavedifferentclassesofhardwaretohostyourenvironment,whereyouwishtoreservemoreexpen sivehardwareforcriticaluse.Forexample,youmightreservemoreexpensivehoststorunbusinesscriticalapplica tions,andreservelowercosthardwareforyourdevelopmentenvironment.Inthatcase,youwouldwantOperations Managertoplaceapplicationsaccordinglycriticalapplicationsonthesehigherpricedhosts,anddevelopment applicationsonthelowercostmachines.
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AssigningaHostTemplatetotheInfrastructureCostPolicy
WithInfrastructureCostpolicies,youcreatetemplatesthatapproximateyourdifferentclassesofmachines,andthen assignthosetemplatestothepolicies.OperationsManagerthendiscoverswhichmachinesbestmatchthesetem plates,andassignsthemachinestoassociatedgroups.Forexample,ifyoucreateaSmall,aMedium,andaLargehost template,OperationsManagercreatesthreegroupsPMs_Small,PMs_Medium,andPMs_Large.Itthenassignsall thehostsinyourenvironmenttothesegroups,accordingtowhichtemplatemostcloselydescribeseachhost. WhenyouassignatemplatetoanInfrastructureCostpolicy,youcancheckwhichmachinesinyourenvironment matchthetemplatesettings.Thisshowsyouwhichmachineswouldbeinthegroupforthattemplate.
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CreatinganInfrastructureCostPolicy
TocreateanInfrastructureCostpolicy: 1. ChoosethedevicetypeyouwantHostorStorage. 2. Choosethetemplatesyouwanttoaddtothepolicy. Youcanchooseanexistingtemplatefromthetemplatecatalog,orcreateanewone. 3. Editthetemplate. Specifythefollowing: Templatenameanddescription PriceYoushouldspecifyapricethatapproximatesyourhardwarecostaswellaspossible.Currently,this pricedisplaysingeneratedreports.InfutureversionsofOperationsManagerthepricemightbeusedforother calculations. CapacityDoyourbesttoapproximatethecapacityfortheclassofhardwareyouredescribing.Operations Managerusesthesevaluestodecidewhichgrouptoputeachdeviceinto.Ifamachinedoesntexactlymatch anytemplatesinthepolicy,OperationsManagerassignsthemachinetotheclosestmatchpossible. AddtoInfrastructureCostPolicyTurnonthischeckboxtoaddthetemplatetothepolicy.Foreachtemplate thatyouenable,OperationsManagercreatesanassociatedgroup.(Note:Ifnomachinesmatchthegiven template,thenthegroupwillnotappearintheGUI.) 4. Applythechanges. ClickApplytoassignthetemplatetothepolicy.
UsingtheInfrastructureCostPolicy
Thesepoliciesassignhardwaretogroups.ThegroupsappearintheByCostfolder.Whenyousetscopetoadashboard oraWorkloadPlacementpolicy,youcanselecttheseorothergroups.
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SettingScopetoaGroupbyCost
YoucanusethesegroupswiththefollowingOperationsManagerfeatures: DashboardsinTheDashboardsViewonpage 64 YoucanuseInfrastructureCostgroupstosetthescopeofdashboardsontheDashboardsview.Inthisway,you cansavecustomdashboardsthatonlyshowinformationaboutaspecificclassofhardware.Formoreinformation, seeViewingStandardDashboardsonpage 66. WorkloadPlacementonpage 244 WithWorkloadPlacementpolicies,youcanensurethatcertainVMswillalwaysbeplacedonhardwareofa certainclass,orelseyoucanspecifythatcertainVMsnevergetplacedonaclassofhardware.
EmailandTrapNotification
YoucansetupemailandSNMPtrapnotificationsforproblemsthatariseonVMs,hosts,ordatastores.Operations Managercansendnotificationswhenproblemsoccurandwhentheyrecleared.Forexample,youcansetupanotifi cationtoyouremailaddresswhenevertheresaDiscoveryproblem,oranSNMPtraptoyournetworkmanagement applicationwhenevertheresamonitoringproblem.
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MessageFormat
YoucandefinethecontentofEmailnotificationmessages,aswellastheFromaddressforeachmessage.Tomake thesesettings,selecttheEmail/TrapNotificationscategoryandmakeGlobalsettings.
TheFromaddressidentifiesthesender,andwillbeusedforanyrepliestoanemailnotification.Ifyouleavethisfield blank,theFromaddresswillbetheemailaddressthatisassociatedwiththeOperationsManagerlicenseinstallation. Note:TheFromaddressalsoidentifiesthesenderforreportsubscriptions.Formoreinformationaboutreport subscriptions,seeManageSubscriptionsonpage 196. Whenyoudefinemessagecontent,youenterformatvariablesandlinebreakstodeterminewhatthemassagewill include.Forexample,thefollowingmessageformat:

{6}: {5} \nDatastores: {9}\nTarget: {7}\nEvent: {0} - {4}\nCategory: {1}\nSeverity: {2}
Resultsinthefollowingemailmessage:
PhysicalMachine: myMachine.corp.mydomain.com Datastores: No value Target: 10.10.172.203 Event: WorkloadBalance - Improve Physical Machine workload distribution for hpesx28.corp.vmturbo.com Category: Workload Placement Severity: MINOR State: NOTIFY
Themessageformatvariablesforamessageare:
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Variable
{0} {1}
Description
EventtypeTheproblemname.Forexample,WorkloadBalance. SubcategoryOneof: PerformanceBottlenecks StorageManagement WorkloadPlacement GreenIT ConfigurationManagement OverProvisioning CapacityManagement SeverityOneof: Critical Major Minor StateCanbeNOTIFYorCLEAR. DescriptionAfulldescriptionoftheproblem. AffectedentityThenameoftheVM,host,ordatastoreassociatedwiththeproblem. ClassnameThetypeofdevicethatregistersthisproblem.Canbeoneof: VirtualMachine PhysicalMachine Datastore TargetTheIPaddressornameofthehypervisorthatmanagestheaffecteddevices. HostnameThenameofthephysicalmachinethathoststheaffectedVM.ThisvariableonlyappliestoVM problemnotifications. DatastorenamesThenamesofthedatastoresthatservertheaffectedHostorVM.Thisvariableonlyappliesto VMandHostproblemnotifications.
{2}
{3} {4} {5} {6}
{7} {8} {9}
NotificationSetup
Youcansetupnotificationforallthedevicesinyourenvironment,oryoucanselectdefinedgroupsandsetspecific prioritiesforthosedevices.(Forinformationaboutdefiningcustomgroups,seeGroupManagementonpage 239.) Foreachnotification,canspecifytheType,andspecifytherecipientintheAddressfield: EmailProvidetheemailaddressthatwillreceivethenotification SNMPTrapProvidetheIPaddressofthedevicethatwillreceivethenotificationOperationsManagersends thesenotificationstoport162
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SettingUpEmailNotificationsforaGroup
Whenyousetupnotifications,youcanchoosefromthefollowingcategoriesofevents(clickthecellintheTypecol umntomakeyourchoice): ProblemIssuesOperationsManageridentifieswithinyourvirtualenvironment DiscoveryIssuesthatoccurasOperationsManagerperformsdiscovery MonitoringIssuesthataffectOperationsManagerasitmonitorsyourenvironment ControlIssuesthataffectOperationsManagerasitperformsrecommendedactions MediationCommunicationissuesthatarisewhenOperationsManagersendscommandstodiscover,monitor, andchangeyourenvironment HealthcheckIssuesthataffectOperationsManagerperformanceTheseissuesarediscoveredviaperiodic OperationsManagerhealthchecktests InterApplianceIssuesthatoccuronanaggregatingapplianceasOperationsManagercommunicatewithtarget OperationsManagerappliances
TheSeverityfielddetermineswhicheventsofthegivencategoryshouldtriggeranotification. IntheNotifyStatefieldyouchoosetonotifywhentheeventoccurs(NOTIFY)whenitiscleared,orboth.
RetentionConfiguration
OperationsManagergathersmetricsfromyourenvironment,andstoresthemtoprovidehistoricalreports.Toopti mizedatastorage,itconsolidatesthedataintothreegroupsHourly,Daily,andMonthly.Dailystatisticsconsolidate Hourlydata,andMonthlystatisticsconsolidateDailydata. OperationsManageralsosavesauditlogentries,anditstartsnewserverlogsatregularperiods.
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SpecifyingRetentionofHistoricalRecords
Themoretimeyouspecifytoretainthesedata,themorestorageOperationsManagerrequires.Asyoumodifythe timetoretaindata,OperationsManagerestimatesthestorageyouwillneedfortheresultingdatabase. Tochangeretentionsettings,edittheValuefields.Whenyouresatisfiedwiththesettings,clickApply. Toreturntothedefaultsettings,clickResetDefaults.
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AggregatedOperationsManager Installations
Forlargevirtualenvironments,youcanusemorethanoneOperationsManagerinstancetomanageyourworkload. Thiscanoffertwoadvantages: Scalinguptomanagelargerinventories Separationbyregion,lineofbusiness,customer,orothercriteria
Note:Forseparationofdata,youcanalsouseasingleinstanceofOperationsManagerandassignscopetouser accounts.Forexample,thisisawaytoachieveseparationbycustomerwithinasingleinstanceofOperationsManager. Formoreinformation,seeAccountScopeonpage 204. Byaggregatingmultipleinstancesinthisway,youcanviewtheentireenvironmentthroughasingleGUI.Onespecial installationofOperationsManagerservesastheaggregatinginstance,anditdisplaysthecombineddataofeach underlyingtargetinstance.Thisbringstogethertherecommendedactions,dashboardsandsummarydisplays, reporting,andotherdatainoneapplicationview.
Inthisarchitecture,eachtargetinstancehasitsownsetoftargethypervisors,andmanagesitsassociatedworkload. Userscanlogontotheseinstanceslocallyastheynormallywould,andusetheirGUIstoperformadministration tasks,reviewandperformrecommendedactions,runplans,orperformanyothertaskausercanperformwithOper ationsManager.Butaggregationoffersmore. Theaggregationinstancetreatstheunderlyinginstancesasitstargetservers.Userscanlogontotheaggregation instanceandusetheGUItomanagetheaggregatedenvironmentbyexecutingrecommendedactions,viewingaggre gateddashboardsandsummarypanels,andperformingothertasks.Youperformthesetasksthroughtheaggregating GUI,butyoucaneffectchangesontheinventorymanagedbytheunderlyingOperationsManagerinstances.
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VersionsandLicensingforAggregation
Note:Anaggregatinginstancecannotmanagehypervisorsandaggregatedtargetinstancesatthesametime.Allthe targetsofanaggregatinginstancemustbetargetinstancesofOperationsManager.
VersionsandLicensingforAggregation
TheaggregatinginstanceofOperationsManagermusthaveaCloudEditionlicense.Theunderlyingtargetinstances canrunwitheitheraCloudEditionorEnterpriseEditionlicense. NotethatallinstancesofOperationsManagerintheaggregationarchitecturemustberunningthesameversion.If youupdatetheversion,youshouldupdateallinstancesinthearchitecture.TheearliestversionofOperationsMan agerthatsupportsaggregationis3.219954.
AggregatedUserAccountsandLogin
Whenyoucreateauseraccountontheaggregatinginstance,thesameaccountgetspushedtoallthetarget instances.Inthisway,auserwithanaccountontheaggregatinginstancecanthenlogontoanyoftheunderlyingtar getinstances.Forexample,ausercanopentargetinstancesfromtheaggregatinginstanceGUI,andthensetpolicies forthosetargets. Eventhoughyoucancreateanaccountfromanaggregatinginstance,andthenpushittothetargetinstances,user accountsarestoredlocallyoneachinstance.Asaresult,accountscangetoutofsync.Ifatargetwasaddedtoyour aggregatinginstanceafteryouraccountwasalreadycreated,thenyouwontnecessarilyhaveanaccountonthenew target.Toremedythissituation,asktheadministratorofthetargettocreateanaccountforyouwithsettings(user name,password,role,etc.)thatareidenticaltoyourcurrentaggregatingaccount.
ActiveDirectoryAuthentication
ForActiveDirectoryaccounts,userauthenticationworksasyouwouldexpect: Whenyoucreateauseraccountontheaggregatinginstance,thatuseraccountgetspusheddowntothe underlyinginstances.Youcanthenlogintotheunderlyinginstancesusingthesamecredentials. TheActiveDirectorydomainandserverspecificationsarelocaltoeachOperationsManagerinstance.Inthisway, eachinstancecanuseauthenticationthatislocaltoitsdomain,butsupporttheauthenticationofthesameuser.
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AggregationDetails
Theaggregationinstanceprovidesaviewofthewholeenvironmentthatisbeingmanagedbythetargetinstances. TheaggregatinginstancerequestsdatafromthetargetinstancesasitsGUIneedsthedata. Thefollowinglistprovidesdetailsofhowtheaggregationinstancemanagesdatafromthetargetinstances. SystemdefinedGroups OperationsManagerautomaticallygroupsdevicesinyourenvironmentintoclustersandothergroups.For example,itlistsdatastoresbystoragetype,orVMsbystorage.Theaggregatinginstanceaddstheaggregated devicestothesegroupsasappropriate.Forexample,ifthedifferenttargetinstancesallincludeiSCSIdisks,then theaggregatinginstanceshowsallofthesedisksinthesameiSCSIgroup.Youcanselectthesegroupsoritemsin thesegroupstosetthescopeoftheaggregatinginstance. CustomGroups Theaggregatinginstancedisplaysallthecustomgroupsthataredefinedinthetargetinstances.Youcanselect thesegroupsoritemsinthesegroupstosetthescopeoftheaggregatinginstance.Youcancreategroupsonthe aggregatinginstancethatincludedevicesfromdifferenttargetinstances.Groupsyoucreateontheaggregating instancedonothaveanyeffectongroupsthataredefinedontargetinstances. ToDoList Ontheaggregatinginstance,theToDolistshowsrecommendedactionsforallthetargetinstances.Ifmanual executionfortheactionisenabledonthetargetinstance,thenyoucanselectthatactionandexecuteitfromthe aggregatinginstance.Thissendsamessagetothecorrespondingtargetinstance,whichexecutesthentheaction. DashboardsView TheProjectClusterResourcesdashboardisnotaggregated.Thisdashboarddisplaysalistoftargetinstances Youcanlogintotheseinstancestoprojectclusterresources. Fortheotherdashboards,thedatayouseeshowsacombinationofthetargetinstances.Forexample,theAssure ServicePerformancedashboardshowsinformationforthetotalofallhostsinyourenvironment.Asyousetthe scopeofthedashboard,youcanchoosefromallthegroupsandclustersintheenvironment. InventoryView Thedatayouseeinthesummarypanelsshowsacombinationofthetargetinstances.Forexampleifyourtarget instanceseachmanageanumberofLSASSapplications,thenavigationlistwillshowthetotalofallthese applicationsundertheheadingforLSASS.Youcanselectgroupstosetthescopeofthisview. PlanView Plansarenotaggregated.ThePlanviewdisplaysalistoftargetinstances.Youcanlogintotheseinstancestorun plansonthem. DeployView TheDeployviewdisplaysalistoftargetinstances.YoucanlogintotheseinstancestodeployVMsonthem. OptimizeView Thedatayouseeinthisviewshowsacombinationofthetargetinstances.Youcanselectgroupstosetthescope ofthisview.
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AdminView Ontheaggregatinginstance,thisviewsupportsthefollowingtasks: LicenseConfiguration
License configuration for the aggregating instance gets pushed down to the target instances. For information about applying licenses, see License Configuration on page 218.
You can manage user accounts for the aggregating instance. These accounts get pushed down to the target instances as well. For more information, see Aggregated User Accounts and Login on page 277and User Authentication Configuration on page 197.
Maintenance
Maintenance actions such as software updates and diagnostics are for the aggregation instance, only. The target instances must perform their own maintenance activities. For more information, see Maintenance on page 220.
PolicyView ThePolicyviewdisplaysalistoftargetinstances.Youcanlogintotheseinstancestospecifypoliciesonthem. Reports TheReportingbuttondisplaysalistoftargetinstances.Youcanlogintotheseinstancestoruntheirreports. Individualdevicesinthenavigationtreeincludebuttonstogeneratereportsondemand.Whenyouclickthisicon, theaggregatinginstancepassestherequesttotheappropriatetargetinstance,whichgeneratesthereport.
ConfiguringAggregation
Bydefault,eachinstanceofOperationsManagerisconfiguredtorunstandalone.Tosetupaggregation,specify underlyinginstancesofOperationsManagerastargetsfortheaggregatinginstance.Forinformationaboutspecifying thesetargets,seeAddingOperationsManagerTargetsforAggregationonpage 217.
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InformationPanels SummaryPanels UtilizationCharts DashboardPanels ShowToporBottomItemsinChart UtilizationHistory

Storage DiskArrays StorageControllers IOModules FabricInterconnects Datacenters ProviderVirtualDatacenters OrganizationVirtualDatacenters

167 169 172 174 177 179 181 184

ActionModes ApplicationPriority DiscoveryPolicies InfrastructureCost EmailandTrapNotification RetentionConfiguration

254 260 262 268 271 274

Loadbalancersmanagethetrafficofrequeststoapplicationsinyourenvironment.Thevirtualapplicationisalogical constructoftheloadbalancer.Forinformationaboutbindingloadbalancedapplicationstothevirtualapplication, seeLoadBalancerDiscoveryonpage 266.

Provides: Consumes: Discoveredthrough:

Inaddition,yourinstallationofOperationsManagermightbeconfiguredtodiscoverotherapplicationsrunningin yourenvironment.Formoreinformation,seeApplicationDiscoveryonpage 262.

NotethattheinventorygroupsVMsbythephysicalmachinesthathostthem.Intheuserinterface,thisisalogical groupingthatmakesiteasiertovisualizethedistributionofVMsacrossyourenvironment.Also,theVMiconsidentify managinghypervisorsbyvendor,andVMstate(seeResourceIconsonpage 36).

AStorageControllerisadevicethatmanagesoneormorediskarrays.ThestoragecontrollerprovidesCPUcyclesto performstoragemanagementtasksforeachdiskarrayitmanages. OperationsManagersupportsstoragecontrollerswhenyouhaveinstalledtheStorageExtensionlicense.

AnIOModuleisaswitchthatconnectsastoragecontrolleranditsdiskarraystothenetwork.Itprovidesastorage controllerwithNetresources.TypicalinstallationsprovidetwoIOmodulesperstoragecontroller. OperationsManagersupportsIOmoduleswhenyouhaveinstalledtheStorageExtensionlicense.

AFabricInterconnectconnectsserverstothenetworkandstorage.Atypicaldeploymentincludestwoswitchesforan AsideandaBside.Thefabricinterconnectprovidesnetworkbandwidthtotheserversintheplatform. OperationsManagersupportsfabricinterconnectswhenyouhaveinstalledtheConvergedFabricExtensionlicense.

Aprovidervirtualdatacenter(vDC)isacollectionofphysicalresources(PMsanddatastores)managedbyacloud stack.Thecloudadministratorhasaccesstotheseresources,anddefinesthedatacentermembers.Usuallyaprovider vDCiscreatedtomanageresourcesthatwillbeexposedtoexternalcustomersthroughoneormoreorganizational vDCs.

Provides: Consumes: Discoveredthrough:

Provides: Consumes: Discoveredthrough:

Note:Inpractice,provisioningforaStorageControlleronlyoccursinplanningscenarios.Inyourenvironment,you wouldmanuallyadddiskarraystostoragecontrollers,andwouldnotbeabletoaddanarrayiftherewasnotastorage controllerpresenttohostit.

MoveVM(to differenthost, datastore,etc.)

Reconfigure (includingadd missingnetworkor reconfigurestorage) Resize(change amountofmemory orstorage) N/A

Start Provision Start Provision

Suspend Terminate(remove PM) Suspend Terminate(remove datastore)

Move(todifferent storagedevice onlyavailablewith theStorage Extension) N/A

Resize(onlyavailable withtheStorage Extension)

Start Provision Provision

N/A OperationsManagerdoesnotrecommendactionstoperformonthedatacenteritself,butitdoes recommendactionstoperformontheentitiesrunninginthedatacenter.

N/A OperationsManagerdoesnotrecommendtheseactionstoperformonthe virtualdatacenteritself,butitdoesrecommendactionstoperformonthe entitiesrunninginthevirtualdatacenter.

Environment Inventory UtilizationIndex

Service Utilization VMGroup

ThefollowingtableliststhemetricsOperationsManagercollects,andincludesdetailsabouthowtheyarecollectedor measured.Forchartsofclustersorgroupsofdevices,chartsshowtheaverageofthepercentageofallocated resourcesthatareused.

IOPS Latency Mem

Toaddabuttontothemenubar,clicktheproductlogoatthetopleftoftheapplicationwindow,thendragbuttons fromthemenupaneltothemenubar.Tochangetheorderofbuttonsinthemenubar,dragthemtothepositionyou want.

IfyouclicktheDetailsbuttonforalogentry,OperationsManageropensanewviewthatprovidesafullsummaryof theaffectedhostmachine. IfyouclicktheSeverityicon,OperationsManagerdisplaysapanelthatshowsrecommendedactions,andachartof detailsrelatedtotheproblem.

CPU IO Networkutilization CPUReadyQueues MoveVMsfromanunderutilizedhosttoanotherhost.OperationsManagercanperformthisaction automatically. Suspendtheunderutilizedhost.OperationsManagercanperformthisactionautomatically.

WhenusingtheDashboardsview,youcanviewStandardDashboardsonpage 65,andyoucanalsocreateandview CustomDashboardsonpage 84.

Tosetthescopeofaselecteddashboard,clicktheScopebutton( groupyouwant. Atanytime,youcanclicktheResetScopebutton( dashboard.

Note:YoucanspecifyactionpoliciesforVMs,hosts,storagedevices,andcloudstacks.Thesepoliciesdeterminehow toexecuteeachaction.Youcanspecifyglobalpoliciesforallentitiesofeachtype,andyoucanalsospecifypoliciesfor specificgroupsofentities.Formoreinformation,seeActionModesonpage 254.

TheHealthchartshowsthecurrentstatusofthephysicalmachinesinyourenvironment.Youcanchoosetocharthost machinesorstorage.Thepiechartshowsthestatusofyourphysicaldevices.Youcanclickthecharttoopenaheat mapthatliststhestatusofeachphysicaldevice.

IntheProjectedImprovementschart,youcanclicktheDetailsicontoopenaUtilizationComparisonchartforyour environment.ThischartisthesameastheviewyougetintheOptimizeview,minusthenavigationpanel.Forinfor mationaboutthisview,seeTheOptimizeViewonpage 146.

WhenyouexpandaVMcluster,thepanelshowshowmanyVMsareinthecluster,andhowmuchstorageisdevoted tothem.ThepanelalsoshowshowmanyVMsaredormant(noapplicationisactiveontheVM)andhowmanyare poweredoff.Inthisway,youcanseehowmuchstorageisheldinreservationforunusedVMs.

Threemonths Sixmonths Ninemonths Oneyear

Forexample,asworkloadchangesandyouaddmoreVMstoyourenvironment,theprojectionsassumeasimilarrate ofgrowth.Ifgrowthcontinuesatthatrate,theprojectionsshowwhenyouwillneedtoaddnewphysicalresourcesto supportgrowingdemand. Thedashboarddisplaysthefollowingpanels:

Thechartsshowdataforthecurrentdashboardscope.NotethattheStoragechartshowstwoplots: StorageCapacityTheamountofstoragethatisavailabletotheclustersinthecurrentscope AllocatedStorageTheamountofstoragethatisusedbytheVMsrunningontheclustersinthecurrentscope

VMname UtilizationIndex PMthathoststheVM,anditsUtilizationIndex StoragedevicesthathosttheVMsdatastore,anditsutilizationindex

ToseewhereaspecificVMlinesupinthechart,hoverovertheVMentryinthelist.Bothchartsdisplaycrosshairsto showtheutilizationcoordinatesforthatVM.Inthisway,youcanseetheVMutilizationinthecurrentenvironment, andalsotheutilizationitwouldexhibitifyouacceptedtheexistingrecommendedactions.

Note:TERMINOLOGYISSUESomehypervisorsrefertosourceVMsastemplates.WithinOperationsManager, templatesarefilesthatdescribeaVM,host,ordatastore.Forthistopic,thewordtemplatereferstoanOperations Managertemplate.VMTemplatesspecifytheresourcesallocatedforaVM,andDeploymentProfilesspecifydetails

TocreateaDeploymentProfile: 1. ClicktheCreate/Editicon( 2. Inthedialogbox,clicktheAddiconfortheDeploymentProfileslist. 3. Inthefieldsthatappear,providethesettingsfortheDeploymentProfile. 4. ClickApplywhenyouredone.

Toviewthesettingsforadiscoveredtemplateorprofile,openthetemplateeditorandselecttheitemyouwantto inspect.Theeditorshowsthetemplateorprofileinadimmedview. YoucannoteditadiscoveredVMTemplateorDeploymentProfile.Thisistopreservetheintegrityofthetemplateand profileinrelationtothesourceVMdata.

Afterasuccessfulrun,youcanreviewtheresultsinthePlanview.Toseetheresults,chooseoneofthefollowingview categoriesfromtheViewdropdownmenu: SummaryViewonpage 104 PhysicalMachineUtilizationViewonpage 106 StorageUtilizationViewonpage 106

PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationViewonpage 107 ActionPlanonpage 107

Whenyourunaplan,youcancontrolwhethertheplanresultsassumeyouwilladdnewhosts,oryouwillsupportthe plannedconditionswithyourcurrenthostinventory.ClicktheEnableHostProvisioningtool theadditionofnewhostsinyourenvironment. toenableordisable

Formoreinformation,seeWorkloadProjectiononpage 133. Ifyouarereplacinghardware,setthescopeofthehardwareyouwillreplace,andchoosetemplatestodescribe thenewhardware.Formoreinformation,seeHardwareReplaceonpage 137.

Afterrunningaplan,youcanreviewtheresultsaccordingtothetypeofplanyouhaverun.Formoreinformation,see WorkloadDistributiononpage 130andWorkloadProjectiononpage 133.

SaveSavesanychangesyoumadetothecurrentplan. SaveAsOpenstheSaveAsdialogbox,whereyoucannameandsavethecurrentplan. DeleteSavedPlanYoucandeleteplansyousaved,orsharedplans. ShowPlanReportOpensareportforthecurrentplaninanewbrowsertab.

Note:Whensettingscopeforaplan,youcanchoosemultiplegroups.However,youshouldbesuretochoosegroups ofthesametype.Forexample,youshouldnotscopebyPMandVMgroupsforthesameplan. Tosetthecurrentplansscope,clicktheScopeicon( ).ThisopenstheDefineUserScopedialogbox.

Youcanalsocreatetemplatesforaddandremoveoperations.Formoreinformation,seeCreatingTemplateson page 124.

1. ChoosetheAddaction. 2. Navigatethelistofitemstochoosewhichitemtoadd. 3. Specifythenumberofcopiestoadd,thenclickAdd. ThelistofitemswillincludefoldercalledNewEntities.Youcanexpandthatfoldertoseetheseitemsyouhave added.

4. Whenyouhavefinishedaddingitemstotheplansload,closethedialogbox. ClickClosetoclosethedialogbox.Usethisoptionifyouwanttomakemorechangestotheplan,orifyouwantto savetheplanbeforeyourunit. ClickCloseandRuntoclosethedialogboxandruntheplanimmediately.

1. ChoosetheChangeResourceUtilizationaction. 2. NavigatethelistofVMstochoosewhichonesyouwillchange.YoucanselectindividualVMs,orgroupsofVMs. Ctrlclicktoselectmultipleitems. 3. ClickChangeLoad.

4. WhenyouhavefinishedchangingVMsintheplansload,closethedialogbox. ClickClosetoclosethedialogbox.Usethisoptionifyouwanttomakemorechangestotheplan,orifyouwant tosavetheplanbeforeyourunit. ClickCloseandRuntoclosethedialogboxandruntheplanimmediately.

Tosetenableordisableplacementpolicies: 1. ClicktheAdvancedOptionsicon( )toopentheadvancedPlanningOptionsdialogbox. 2. DisplaytheWorkloadPlacementtab. 3. Navigatethelisttoselectthepoliciesyouwanttoenable,thenclickEnableRule.

Thisisnotsimplylookingathowmuchmoreworkloadyoucanplaceonspecifichosts.Theplanwillredistributethe workloadtogetthebestpossibleresults.Afterrunningtheplanyoumayfindthatyoucanaddmoreworkloadthan youinitiallythoughtwithoutaddinganynewhardware.

AWorkloadDistributionplandisplaysthefollowingviews: SummaryViewonpage 134(Usethistospecifyhistoricaldatesandprojectionperiod) PhysicalMachineUtilizationonpage 132 StorageUtilizationonpage 137 PhysicalMachineandStorageDetailedUtilizationDataonpage 137