1. VMWare vCenter Operations Prepared by: Cristian Calin October 2011 http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations/overview.html

2. What Is It ?

A VMWare appliance VM

3. Derrived from the Alive Enterprise product 4. Allows you to have an overview of the whole infrastructure 5. Helps an IT team to have a helpdesk like interface to quickly identify problems in a virtualized infrastructure 6. Is licensed per VM on a 50VM pack basis 7. Welcome to the Main Screen You first open the interfaceand are presented with an interface that looks a lot like thefollowing 8. Identify a VM that is causing problems A VM which is out ofparameters is singled out and collored differently. red, orange ore yellow depending on the severity 9. Double Click to Drill Down From first glance you can see that there is a problem with the CPU 10. This VM has been like this for some time You can view a zoom on the graphics to see if it is an isolated incident or a continuous problem 11. Let's Drill Down and See Usage contention seems to be low, this is good, it means that it is not affecting otherworkloads and is not itself affected by another workload 12. Let's Look at Another Example Here we se a VM having memory issues, we can see that it's memory is fullyallocated 13. Let's Drill Down It's been like this for a while seems to oscilate between a wide set of values 14. No Memory Contention from the Hypervisor Layer We look at the active memory,Balooning and compression This seems to be a soly guest issue 15. User Reposts an Eratic Issue From the looks of it, this VM is running an eraticworkload, best to look at the windows task manager this is nolonger a VM-Adminissue 16. Clusters Overview Generally looks OK, If we had any issues, We would see yelow or red Good to show your manager This :) 17. Datastore Overview This looks almost good It helps find the Vms which Suffer from IO starvation This view is very good at Identifying datastores that Need upgrade or cleanup 18. Storage Performance Again This clearly indicates a Problem with IO density Your best bet is to increase IO capacity by storage specific Means. Remember MS Bragging about spindles ? 19. How Usefull is This Tool ?

This tool help the VM Admin do his job easier

20. It allows you to concentrate on the real issues 21. It cuts down the time needed to identify and isolate an issue 22. It helps you delegate some troubleshooting tasks 23. Good to show the managers 24. Good to prove to the user it's his own fault 25. Helps in making recommendations 26. Thank You !