vRealize Operations

vRealize Operations improves application performance, prevents business disruptions and makes IT more efficient. 

VMware vRealize Operations integrated with vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Business for Cloud helps plan, manage and scale SDDC and multi-cloud environments with unified monitoring, automated performance management, cloud planning and capacity optimisation.

Key Benefits: 

• Application-aware monitoring across SDDC and multiple clouds: Centralise IT operations management of SDDC and multi-cloud environments, accelerate time to value and troubleshoot smarter with native integrations, unified visibility from applications to infrastructure health and actionable insights combining metrics and logs.
• Cloud Planning, capacity optimisation and compliance: Correlate operational and cost insights to accelerate cloud planning decisions, control costs and reduce risk. Optimise cost and resource usage through capacity management, reclamation and right sising, improve planning and forecasting and enforce IT and configuration standards.
• Automated and proactive workloads management:Simplify and streamline IT operations with fully automated management of infrastructure and applications performance, while retaining full control. Automatically balance workloads, avoid contention and enable proactive detection and automatic remediation of issues and anomalies before end users are impacted.

vRealize Operations - Features

Key Features:

• Centralised and fully automated management for SDDC and multicloud environments from applications to infrastructure.
• 360 degree troubleshooting with metrics and logs in-context. 
• Predictive analytics driving proactive detection and automatic remediation
of issues and anomolies. 
• Intelligent workload placement, automated balancing and predictive
DRS to resolve resource contention and enable performance. 
• Correlation of cost insights with capacity analytics to accelerate planning and procurement, optimise utilisation and increase forecast accuracy. 
• Cost transparency across multiple private and public clouds to optimise
workload placement. 
• Out of the box hardening and health checks for the SDDC to reduce risks.
• Fully open and extensible platform.

vRealize Operations - System Requirements

Sizing and Scaling

The CPU, memory and disk requirements that meet the needs of a particular environment depend on the number and type of objects in your environment and data collected, which includes the number and type of adapters installed, the use of HA (High Availability), the duration of data retention and the quantity of specific data points of interest. VMware updates Knowledge Base article 2093783 with the most current information about sizing and scaling. The Knowledge Base article includes overall maximums and spreadsheet calculations that provide a recommendation based on the number of objects and metrics you expect to monitor.

Deployment Formats

You can deploy vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 with the following installation formats:

• VMware virtual appliance
• RHEL installation package
• Microsoft Windows installation package Note: vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 is the final version of the product to support Microsoft Windows installations.

If you are deploying a vRealize Operations Manager virtual appliance, use a VMware vSphere Client to connect to a VMware vCenter Server and deploy the virtual appliance through the vCenter Server instance. The vRealize Operations Manager virtual appliance must be deployed on hosts that ESX/ESXi 5.1 U3 or later managed by VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 3 or later.

Note: Although the RHEL-based installation option is fully supported in vRealize Operations Manager 6.4, we will be deprecating this support. The future availability of the RHEL options is not guaranteed. VMware recommends the use of our Virtual Appliance option rather than using a Linux-based option. The announcement of the End-of-Availability (EOA) for Linux-based options will be provided in a future release.

Linux and Windows Requirements

You can install and upgrade the standalone version of vRealize Operations Manager on the following operating systems:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5, 6.6 and 6.7
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)