In my previous post about vCenter Operations Standard (from now on vCOPS), I showed you how to install vCOPS and do some initial configuration.
After completion it is time to discover the features of this tool. My first action was to configure SMTP. As a regular user of tools like Nagios, I like to receive notifications in case of trouble. Unfortunately, after filling in the required fields, there is no button to Test your email configuration!
So let us go back to vCOPS, the first thing to notice, is the complete different look and feel of what we are used to in vCenter and other Solutions and Applications. VMware Update Manager and VMware Data Recovery, seamlessly integrate in vCenter.
vCOPS can completely run in a browser, that gives the opportunity to easily switch between vCOPS and vCenter
After my first tour, I was a bit confused and lost. So I returned to the “Installation and Administration Guide” which contains a section about the main concepts of vCOPS. So I learned about Workloads, Health, Capacity, attributes, metrics, dynamic- and hard thresholds, key performance indicators and probable causes, but still fuzzy…
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