vRealize Operations 6.4Supercharge your SDDC Intelligent Operations

vRealize Operations 6.4: Getting more done, faster

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Cross Domain Collaboration Lower Mean Time To Resolution Optimize Resource Utilization

• Role-based Dashboards: management, Capacity, Storage, Network, Helpdesk Teams & VM Owners can share operational data

• Guided troubleshooting workflow with high resolution metrics and events correlated across the stack

• Faster resolution with alert grouping and business context awareness with vSphere VM Folders

• Predictive DRS boosts resource utilization by factoring in utilization trends from vR OPs into vSphere 6.5 DRS

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Three Approaches to Avoiding ContentionOptimize Resource Utilization

• DRS & vR Ops– Balancing workloads

across hosts and clusters

– Mitigates risk– Attempts to prevent hot

spots– HUGE potential for

overhead – No guarantees

• DRS and vR Ops– Predict the future

demand– Minimal overhead– Only moves VMs that

must be moved– Moves before

contention starts

• DRS– Resolve unexpected

resource demand– Minimal overhead– Only moves VMs that

must be moved– Moves VMs when

contention starts

Reactive Balance *NEW* Predictive

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How Predictive DRS WorksOptimize Resource Utilization

• Tight integration between DRS and vRealize Operations Manager • Resource utilization trends are observed by vR Ops and sent to DRS• Predicted demand of workloads is incorporated into DRS algorithms

– DRS Moves, Initial Placement and Load Balancing– Current VM demands are honored before future demands are satisfied

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vSphere DRS

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New Role Based DashboardsBoost Cross Domain Collaboration

• Infrastructure specific– Clusters, Datastores,

ESXi

• VM specific– Configuration, high

Usage, high IOPS, and Network throughput

• Operations Overview• Capacity Overview• Troubleshoot a VM

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OOTB - Troubleshoot a VM dashboardBoost Cross Domain Collaboration

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• Why is VM slow?

• Known critical issues?

• Is it a Windows VM?

• Is demand spiking?

• Is there contention?

• Is there Datastore Latency?

• Does the parent infrastructure have contention?

• Parent infrastructure details

• Troubleshooting workflow

Overview

Expand Widgets to troubleshoot further

Expand Widgets to troubleshoot further

OOTB - Operations Overview dashboard Boost Cross Domain Collaboration

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Across any part of my environment: • Inventory counts?

• Select a DC

• Uptime

• Alerts

• Top CPU and Memory Contention

• Top Latency

Overview

OOTB - Capacity Overview dashboardBoost Cross Domain Collaboration

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Across any part of my environment: • Available Capacity?

• CPU / Memory / Disk Utilization trends

• Reclaimable Capacity

• Distribution Utilization, over and under utilized

Overview

Expand Widgets for more details

Bring in vSphere VM Folders for Business ContextReduce Mean Time To Resolution

Bring in vSphere VM Folders• Left navigation shows business context

based on vSphere folders

• Search for problem VMs by App Names

• New Resource details page showing alerts on children VMs

Overview

Business Context: by Application, by Tier, by function, etc.

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Alerts on children

Alert Enhancements – Alert GroupingReduce Mean Time To Resolution

• View all alerts, and then group them by alert definition

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Noisiest AlertsDisable and Clear

noisy alerts

Top Critical Alerts to fix today