vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 (vCOPS) - Part 2 Configuring vCOPs and Introduction to vCOPS Foundation

In Part 1 we deployed the vCOPS vApp which contains our 2 VMs; the Analytics VM and the UI VM.

• vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 (vCOPS) - Part 1 Deploying the Operations Manager vApp

Now that the 2 VMs within the vApp are powered on, we are ready to configure vCOPS. 

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vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 (vCOPS) - Part 1 Deploying the Operations Manager vApp

Firstly what is vCenter Operations Manager, also known as vCOPS? VMware describe it as follows..

"vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) automates operations management using patented analytics and an integrated approach to performance, capacity and configuration management."

I'm my words.. vCOPS provides integrated, intelligent monitoring of the entire virtual (or cloud) environment. This could be simply vSphere (vCenter and ESXi) and it's virtual machines, or it could extend to capacity, networking devices, storage. Perhaps you would like to monitor physical servers and the operating system within both virtual and physical machines including checking for compliance. vCOPS can do all of this.

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vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 5.5 - Part 4 Adding a Workflow to a Context Menu

Welcome to the final part 4 of my vCenter Orchestrator series! Don't worry I'm sure I'll do more vCO blogs in addition to this series, it's product with a huge amount of possibilities and as I gain experience with it I'll try and share that with you!

We have now deployed vCO as a virtual appliance, configured it and ran a couple of workflows to see how it works and integrates with vSphere Web Client.

We're going to take the integration with vSphere Web Client just a little bit further. In the previous part 3, you saw a vCenter Orchestrator context menu, from which we ran a workflow.

It's possible modify that context menu and add additional workflows, both existing and new to that context menu.

And you can choose whether thats the context menu at the Datacenter level, cluster, folder, VM and so on.

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vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) 5.5 - Part 3 Using vCO and Running a Workflow

In Part 3 we configured vCO, it's authentication, SSL certificates and vCenter server. Now in Part 3 we are going to look at how to access and use VCO, including running a workflows.

This is where it get's more interesting and you will get a feel for what vCO looks like and what it can do.

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