Explore the features of vRealize Operations Cloud to understand its functionality. Click the ? icon on a page to launch the online help for that screen.

Prerequisites

Complete the trial activation process.

Procedure

  1. Click the OPEN VREALIZE OPERATIONS link from within VMware Cloud on AWS to launch he vRealize Operations Cloud.
  2. vRealize Operations Cloud UI is launched, presenting the SDDC summary in the Environment section of vRealize Operations Cloud. On this page, you can explore the following tabs:
    • Alerts
    • Metrics
    • Capacity
    • Compliance
    • Logs
    • Events
  3. Explore the dashboards which will help you get started with monitoring your VMware environment. The predefined dashboards help you understand your environment, the workload distribution of your hosts, clusters, and datastores, the capacity of your data center, and troubleshoot your VMs. For more information, see Predefined Dashboards in the vRealize Operations Cloud Configuration Guide. The following dashboards are useful:
    • VMC Inventory Dashboard
    • Management VM Monitoring
  4. Pick a VM and explore the VM summary page. Use the troubleshooting workbench to find potential evidences for alerts. For more information see Troubleshooting Workbench Home Page in the vRealize Operations Cloud User Guide.