VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management -- Table of Contents -- VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management -- Credits -- Foreword -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Instant updates on new Packt books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What this book is not -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Virtual Data Center - It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized -- Our journey into the virtual world -- Not all "virtualizations" are equal -- Virtual Machine - it is not what you think! -- Software-Defined Data Center -- The compute function -- The network function -- The storage function -- All together now -- A virtual data center versus a physical data center -- Data center -- Server -- Storage -- Network -- Disaster Recovery -- Application -- Infrastructure team -- Management disciplines impacted by virtualization -- Summary -- 2. Capacity Management in SDDC -- Shift in capacity management -- Capacity management at the VM level -- Capacity management at the infrastructure level -- Capacity planning at the compute level -- Capacity planning at the storage layer -- Capacity planning at the network layer -- Summary -- 3. Mastering the Key Counters in SDDC -- First things first - the purpose -- Compute -- Network -- Storage -- Metric groups -- VM - metric groups -- ESXi - metric groups -- Cluster - metric groups -- Datastore - metric groups -- Datastore cluster - metric groups -- The distributed switch -- Data center - metric groups -- vCenter - metric groups.

Counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations -- When is a peak not a true peak? -- vRealize Operations versus vCenter -- Summary -- 4. CPU Counters -- CPU counters at the VM level -- Contention counters -- Utilization counters -- Other counters -- VM CPU key counters -- CPU counters at the ESXi level -- Contention counters -- Utilization counters -- ESXi CPU key counters -- CPU counters at the cluster level -- CPU counters at higher levels -- CPU contention guidance -- Summary -- 5. Memory Counters -- Memory - not such a simple matter -- Memory counters at the VM level -- Contention counters -- Utilization counters -- Other counters -- Putting it together -- VM memory key counters -- Memory counters at the ESXi level -- Contention counters -- Utilization counters -- ESXi memory key counters -- Memory counters at the cluster level -- Memory counters at higher levels -- Memory contention guidance -- Summary -- 6. Network Counters -- Network monitoring and management -- Network counters at the VM level -- Network counters at the ESXi level -- Network counters at the cluster level -- Network counters at the Distributed Switch level -- Network counters at higher levels -- Summary -- 7. Storage Counters -- The multilayer storage -- Storage counters at the VM level -- Putting it all together -- VM storage key counters -- Storage counters at the ESXi level -- Storage counters at the cluster level -- Storage counters at the datastore level -- Storage counters at the datastore cluster level -- Storage counters at the higher level -- Storage contention guidance -- Summary -- 8. Dashboard Examples and Ideas -- Planning for your dashboards -- Using the right counters -- Figuring out who will use which dashboard -- How many dashboards do I need to have? -- Use case - is virtualization causing a problem? -- What the dashboard looks like.

Use case - managing the overall SDDC performance -- VM level -- Infrastructure level -- Use case - dashboards for the big screen -- Use case - storage performance management -- Use case - storage capacity management -- Use case - network performance management -- Use case - right-sizing large VMs -- What the dashboard looks like -- Use case - capacity planning -- Summary -- References -- Index.