VMware Performance and Capacity Management - Second Edition

Summary

We have covered why SDDC management differs drastically from HDDC management, so much that you have to have two different modes of separation if you are not 100-percent virtualized.

We used the restaurant analogy to see that you need to shift your focus from your infrastructure to your customer. A lot of IT departments struggle because they did not shift their management focus to the consumer layer. The shift also requires the use of new counters, and we introduced the Contention counter. We also saw that you need super metrics in this new management.

We closed the chapter by providing guidance on the vRealize Operations dashboard. The next four chapters will share some dashboards that demonstrate how vRealize Operations helps in performance ...