First up is understanding what an object is and what an object type is. An object is a single entity in vRealize Operations, such as a virtual machine, a Datastore, a switch, and so on. The individual object has a name and set of identifiers that make it unique inside vRealize Operations, even if there are multiple objects with the same name (for example, vCenter folders) they will all still be a unique object in the vRealize Operations inventory.
As mentioned in Chapter 1, Going Ahead with vRealize Operations, an object shares its GemFire shard key with its FSDB metric data and alarm data, this ensures that all elements that make up an object are persisted together on the same vRealize Operations node. In previous versions of vRealize ...
