CloudPlus360: VMware vRealize Operations Manager Step by Step (Part-1) Overview and Installation

vRealiza operations Manager (vRops) previously called vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps) is a part from the vRealize Suite,
vRealize Suite consists of the following products:

VMware vRealize Automation Advanced or Enterprise
VMware vRealize Operations Advanced or Enterprise
VMware vRealize Log Insight
VMware vRealize Business

vRealize Suite is available with two licensing models:

Per Processor: For on premise private cloud or virtual environments
Per OS Instance: For public cloud workloads or workloads on physical hardware

In this post I will go through how to deploy and configure vRealize Operations Manager 6.0,
From the vSphere Client Connected to your vCenter Start by Deploying OVF Template, Download the Source, Select, Next

Review, Click Next

Accept the EULA, Click Next

Give name to the Virtual machine, Click Next

VM Configuration select,
The Small configurations for environments less than 2000 VM`s, it will take from your resources 4 vCPU`s and 16 GB or RAM`s

Select your disk format method, Click Next,

Insert your Gateway, DNS and the IP address that will be used for the vROPS,

Review the Summery, Click Finish

Deploying ………….

vRealize Operations Deployed and powered up, give some time until the OS start

Go to the Web Browser, enter the IP address of the vRops,
From the Get started Page I will go with select Express Installation

Create New vRelize Operations Cluster,
vRealize Operations Manager 6 came with new high availability options, we can create 2-node vROps High Availability Cluster and create Load balance between them using Load Balancing solutions,
Our first node of the Cluster will called the Master node,
On a later post we will talk in details how to add the second node to the Cluster to provide the High Availability,

Set the Admin Account Password, Click Next

Review Summery and Click Finish

Loading …………………………

Here we go ……..
User and password and click Login

We have two Options here, either to create new environment or to upgrade from Old vCenter Operations Mnager (vCOPs)
Select New Environment and Click Next

Accept the EULA and Click Next

Enter the Product Key and click Next

Finish

This will be the First Look

First Step we need to do is to configure the connection with the vCenter to allow the vRops to start collecting data from the vSphere Environment,
From the Administration, Solutions, Click on the configure button

We have 2 things to configure here:
The vCenter Adapter is to allow the vRealize operations Manger to collects metrics from vCenter Server
The vCenter Python Actions Adapter allows you to modify objects on your managed vCenter Server instances from vRealize Operations Manager.
First, we will configure the vCenter Adapter