In my last post I gave you an overview of the new user interface of vRealize Operations 6.6 along with some other important enhancements. Do go through that post to get a context of what we are going to discuss here.
With the introduction of Getting Started page within dashboards, one of the categories which is available out of the box is called the "Operations".
Here is how operations shows up on the Getting Started Page:
Let us look at each of these dashboard and I will provide a summary of what these dashboards can do for you along with a quick view of the dashboard.
Datastore Usage Overview
Host Usage Overview
Operations Overview
Optimize vSAN Deployments
vSAN Operations Overview
In case you are like me, and don't like to READ. You can see the dashboards in action in this video playlist:
⏩See all dashboards in action here.
More to come.. Stay Tuned!!
With the introduction of Getting Started page within dashboards, one of the categories which is available out of the box is called the "Operations".
Here is how operations shows up on the Getting Started Page:
The Operations category is most suitable for roles within an
organization who require a summary of important data points to take quick decisions.
This could be a member of a NOC team who wants to quickly identify issues and
take actions, or executives who want a quick overview of their environments to
keep a track of important KPIs.
Key questions these dashboards help you
answer are :
- What does the infrastructure inventory look like?
- What is the alert volume trend in the environment?
- Are virtual machines being served well?
- Are there hot-spots in the datacenter I need to worry about?
- What does the vSAN environment look like and are their optimization opportunities by migrating VMs to vSAN?
Let us look at each of these dashboard and I will provide a summary of what these dashboards can do for you along with a quick view of the dashboard.
Datastore Usage Overview
The Datastore Usage Dashboard
is suitable for a NOC environment. The dashboard provides a quick glimpse of
all the virtual machines in your environment using a heatmap. Each virtual
machine is represented by a box on the heatmap. Using this dashboard, a NOC
administrator can quickly identify virtual machines which are generating high
IOPS since the boxes representing the virtual machine are sized by the number
of IOPS they are generating.
Along with the storage
demand, the color of the boxes represents the latency experienced by these
virtual machines from the underlying storage. A NOC administrator can take the
next steps in his investigation to find the root cause of this latency and
resolve it to avoid potential performance issues.
Host Usage Overview
The Host Usage Dashboard is
suitable for a NOC environment. The dashboard provides a quick glimpse of all
the ESXi hosts in your environment using a heatmap. Using this dashboard the
NOC administrator can easily find resource bottlenecks in your environment
created due to high Memory Demand, Memory Consumption or CPU Demand.
Since the hosts in the
heatmap are grouped by clusters, you can easily find out if you have clusters
with high CPU or Memory Load. It can also help you to identify if you have ESXi
hosts with the clusters which are not evenly utilized and hence an admin can
trigger activities such as workload balance or enable DRS to ensure that
hotspots are eliminated.
Operations Overview
The Operations Overview
dashboard provides a high level view of objects which make up you virtual
environment. It provides you an aggregate view of virtual machine growth trends
across your different datacenters being monitored by vRealize Operations
Manager.
The dashboard also provides a
list of all your datacenters along with inventory information about how many
clusters, hosts and virtual machines you are running in each of your
datacenters. By selecting a particular datacenter you can zoom into the areas
of availability and performance. The dashboard provides a trend of known issues
in each of your datacenters based on the alerts which have triggered in the
past.
Along with the overall health
of your environment, the dashboard also allows you to zoom in at the Virtual
Machine level and list out the top 15 virtual machines in the selected datacenter
which might be contending for resources.
Optimize vSAN Deployments
The Optimize vSAN deployments
dashboard is an easy way to device a migration strategy to move virtual
machines from your existing storage to your newly deployed vSAN storage. The
dashboard provides you with an ability to select your non vSAN datastores which
might be struggling to serve the virtual machine IO demand. By selecting the
VMs on a given datastore, you can easily identify the historical IO demand and
latency trends of a given virtual machine.
You can then find a suitable
vSAN datastore which has the space and the performance characteristics to serve
the demand of this VM. With a simple move operation within vRealize Operations
Manager, you can move the virtual machine from the existing non vSAN datastore
to the vSAN datastore.
Once the VM is moved, you can
continue to watch the utilization patterns to see how the VM is being served by
vSAN.
vSAN Operations Overview
The vSAN Operations Overview
Dashboard provides an aggregated view of health and performance of your vSAN
clusters. While you can get a holistic view of your vSAN environment and what
components make up that environment, you can also see the growth trend of
virtual machines which are being served by vSAN.
The goal of this dashboard is
to help understand the utilization and performance patterns for each of your
vSAN clusters by simply selecting one from the provided list. VSAN properties
such as Hybrid or All Flash, Dedupe & Compression or a Stretched vSAN
cluster can be easily tracked through this dashboard.
Along with the current state,
the dashboard also provides you a historic view of performance, utilization,
growth trends and events related to vSAN.
In case you are like me, and don't like to READ. You can see the dashboards in action in this video playlist:
⏩See all dashboards in action here.
More to come.. Stay Tuned!!
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