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

VMware vCenter 6 Step by Step (Part 2) Basic Configurations

In the first post we finished the installation of the vCenter,
VMware vCenter 6 Step by Step (Part 1) Installation
We will continue in this post with the basic configurations and Hosts add and Cluster creation,
First thing we need to do is to log in to our new vCenter using Administrator Account for vSphere.Local

Here are the first look using Web client

VMware vCenter 6 Step by Step (Part 1) Installation

VMware vSphere 6 came with lots of changes and new features, but we can say that the Installation is not that different from earlier versions,
For the ESXI deployment its almost the same experience, for the vCenter we will talk in details about Installation Step by Step,
Some new enhancement in the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA):

• Linked Mode is Supported.
• 1000 hosts and 10,000 VMs using the embedded database.

Now lets start the step by step for the vCenter 6 deployment over Windows Server 2012 with DB hosted in Microsoft SQL 2012
First you need to install 

After installing the fix we can start the vCenter installation, Select vCenter Server for Windows, Click Install

Why do we need the documentation?

 

I spent years in IT industry in most days and in most Modern companies I found that they consider the documentation a burden not a solution for their problems .

Some of the reasons I had seen to avoid Making or updating the documentation :

• understaffed and lack the Time .
• lack of well ( no one will read it ) .
• lack the intention ( if some one know what I know I will be fired ) .
• I am the only one who do it anyway why should I document I can remember everything .

Return On Investment–ROI for a Small Private Cloud project

 

This is one of the Most common words in IT industry you keep hearing ,ROI study and ROI for this project . in this Short post I will try to make it simple by using example from the IT industry not just by using the raw info .

it’s a performance measure to determine the efficiency

Example :

you want a new servers for building a new private cloud used as a sandbox (Testing) .

Step 1: getting the cost of Accruing those servers ( servers cost + software licenses cost + cost of implementing those ) you will end up with a number (Ex. $100,000 )

Private Cloud Higher utilization and additional unit Marginal cost/ benefit

 

Example

you need to run 10 applications (LOB) shall you proceed with Private cloud ?

(the servers cost is used as example only )

each physical server costs $15K (16GB Ram ,6Cores , 1TB Storage )

Now you sum up to 150K

Now we got to the cloud part by using the cloud you removed the physical boundaries with will lead to Higher utilization (I am using the same HW in the physical example)

(Part-4) Step By Step VMware Site Recovery Manager - SRM and EMC SAN with SRDF

In the previous posts we went through Installing and configuring SRM and also installing the EMC Storage SRA and configure the array manager connection,
Now we will go through Creating our first Protection Group which will be based in the Replication Group made by the SAN Admin,
From the SRM Console Go to Protection Group and from the Getting Started tab click on Create a protection Group

You will ask your self a very basic question here !!
Why all this Datastores is grouped together in one Check Box??
Can I separate this Datastores from each other??
How it will affect my recovery??
The answer is very simple,
For the First question the answer is: All this Datastores Lun`s is grouped in one SRDF Replication Group and because of this you have no choice else protecting them all together in one Protection Group,
For the Second question the answer is: To separate them you need to ask the SAN admin to separate the Replication Group as per your requirements,
For the third question the answer is: Yes it will affect your recovery plan because once you have all this Datastores in one protection group so you will need to recover all of them together,
Choose the Protected Site (HO Site) and you will find the available Array Pairs, choose which array pairs will be used (the one containing your Datastores Lun`s)