Understanding vRealize Operations

Manager

David Davis
VEXPERT, VCP, VCAP, CCIE

@DavidMDavis DavidMDavis.com
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What Makes up the vRealize Suite?

Overview What Is vRealize Operations Manager?
Benefits of vRealize Operations Manager
vRealize Operations Manager Editions
Licensing vRealize Operations
vRealize Operations Architecture
 What Makes up the vRealize Suite?

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Automation Operations Insight

vRealize Business vRealize Lifecycle

for Cloud Manager
 vRealize Suite Editions

Standard Advanced Enterprise

• All standard plus… • All advanced plus…

• vROps Advanced
• vRealize Automation • vRealize Operations
• vRealize Log Insight
Advanced Enterprise
• vRealize Suite Lifecycle
• vRealize Business for • vRealize Automation
Manager
Cloud Advanced Advanced
VMware vRealize Operations Manager
“VMware vRealize® Suite is an enterprise ready cloud
management platform that helps enterprise IT teams and
service providers enable developers to quickly and easily
build VM and container-based applications in any private,
public, or hybrid cloud with secure and consistent
operations. It provides a comprehensive management for
IT services on VMware vSphere® and other hypervisors,
physical infrastructure, containers, OpenStack, and
external clouds such as VMware Cloud™ on AWS, Azure,
and Google Cloud Platform, all with a unified
management experience.”
Source: VMware.com
VMware vRealize Operations Manager

• CMP – cloud management platform

• Manages applications running in VMs and containers
across VMware vSphere, physical infrastructures, and
hybrid / public clouds
• Manages performance and capacity, prevents
bottlenecks before the happen, and helps to
remediate trouble, if it occurs
 What is vRealize Operations Manager?

Performance and Optimization of Unified

Management
Availability Infrastructure
On and off premises
Performance and health Optimization of
visibility from
monitoring across the resource utilization,
application down to
SDDC with smart alerts right-sizing, and
physical, thanks to
and guided remediation capacity forecasting
extensible management
Benefits of vRealize Operations Manager

Proactive
Visibility Capacity planning
remediation

Workload Standards
Extensibility
placement enforcement
 vRealize Operations Manager Editions

Standard Advanced Enterprise

• Entire SDDC, VMC, and • SDDC, multicloud,
VCPP Apps and containers
• vSphere only • OS monitoring • OS, App, and DB
• Custom dashboards monitoring
• ~15 mgmt. packs
• Automated WLB • Third-party integration

• ~50 mgmt. packs • ~75 mgmt. packs

 Licensing vRealize Operations

Portable Per Proc w/ Per VM

Licensing Unit Unlimited
(PLU)
• vROps Std & Adv • vROps Standard,
Advanced, or
• vCloud Suite • vR Log Insight Enterprise
• vRealize Suite • vR Business for Cloud • vR Log Insight
Adv
• vR Business for Cloud
Adv
vROps Portable License Unit (PLU)
Portable license units (PLU) allow you to move workloads
from vSphere to other hypervisors, physical servers, or
public clouds
• 1 PLU = 1 vSphere CPU with unlimited VMs
OR
• 1 PLU = 1 VMware Cloud on AWS CPU with unlimited VMs
OR
• 1 PLU = up to 15 OSIs deployed on supported public
clouds or third-party hypervisors / physical servers
vRealize Operations Manager Architecture
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MASTER NODE
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User Interface User Interface User Interface

REST API REST API REST API Remote
Controller Controller Controller Collector
Node
Analytics Analytics Analytics
Data
Persistence Persistence Persistence
Node

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What Makes up the vRealize Suite?

Summary What Is vRealize Operations Manager?
Benefits of vRealize Operations Manager
vRealize Operations Manager Editions
Licensing vRealize Operations
vRealize Operations Architecture