VMware vRealize Suite - 6.0 Getting Started Guide
vRealize Suite Getting Started Guide
vRealize Suite 6.0
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Contents
Introduction to the VMware vRealize Suite 5
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VMware vRealize Suite Licensing 6
vRealize Suite Components 6
Deployment Overview of vRealize Suite 9
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Installing vRealize Operations Management Suite Components 9
Installing and Configuring vRealize Operations Manager 9
Installing and Configuring vRealize Infrastructure Navigator 10
Installing and Configuring vRealize Configuration Manager 11
Installing and Configuring vRealize Hyperic 12
Installing and Configuring vRealize Log Insight 12
About vRealize Automation Installations 13
Installing and Configuring vRealize Automation 13
About vRealize Business 14
Installing and Configuring vRealize Business Standard 15
Updating vRealize Operations Management Suite Components 17
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Introduction to the
VMware vRealize Suite 1
VMware vRealize Suite complements VMware vCloud Suite, so that you can deliver infrastructure and
applications across VMware vSphere and other hypervisors, physical infrastructure, and private and public
clouds. vRealize Suite is available in Advanced and Enterprise editions.
VMware vRealize Suite Advanced
VMware vRealize Suite is a comprehensive management solution for provisioning and on-going
management of infrastructure services that provides the following functions:
Rapid, self-service infrastructure provisioning
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Infrastructure health, performance, and capacity monitoring across physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud
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deployments
Rapid creation of rate cards and automatic pricing of service catalog blueprints for use in a self-service
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portal
Benchmarks, usage metering, and public cloud comparison
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Planning, controlling, and recovering costs expended in providing a full IT services stack,
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implementing cost transparency, cost optimization, and demand management
Detecting application dependencies, hypervisor change, and configuration management
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VMware vRealize Suite Enterprise
VMware vRealize Suite is a complete management solution for deployment, on-going management, and
compliance for infrastructure and applications, with the following additional benefits:
Rapid, self-service infrastructure and application provisioning
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Automated configuration and deployment of multitier cloud applications and custom services
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Detection of application performance
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Regulatory compliance and OS-level change and configuration management
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IT service level management
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Detection of IT performance and value measures for all services and vendors, enabling IT to govern
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contractual commitments
This chapter includes the following topics:
“VMware vRealize Suite Licensing,” on page 6
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“vRealize Suite Components,” on page 6
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VMware vRealize Suite Licensing
You can license the components in VMware vRealize Suite individually or as part of VMware vRealize Suite
6.0.
Some components are available as standalone products that are licensed on a per-virtual machine basis.
When the products are part of vRealize Suite, they are licensed on a per-CPU basis. You can run an
unlimited number of virtual machines on CPUs that are licensed with vRealize Suite. Note that when you
install a component of the VMware vRealize Operations Management Suite, such as Hyperic
vRealize Suite consists of the following products:
VMware vRealize Automation Advanced or Enterprise
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VMware vRealize Operations Management Suite Advanced or Enterprise
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VMware vRealize Log Insight
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VMware vRealize Business Standard Advanced or Enterprise
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vRealize Suite is available with the following licensing models:
Per CPU, for on-premise private cloud or virtual environments
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Per virtual machine instance, for public cloud workloads or workloads on physical hardware
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After you purchase VMware vRealize Suite, you receive four license keys, one for each of the component
products.
vRealize Suite Components
A vRealize Suite edition contains individual products with different versions. To ensure interoperability,
verify that the components of your vRealize Suite environment are the correct versions.
VMware vRealize Suite includes the following components or a subset of these components, based on the
edition you purchased.
Table 1‑1. Products of vRealize Suite
Product Name Description
vRealize Operations Manager Collects performance data from each object at every level of your virtual
vRealize Infrastructure Navigator Provides automated discovery of application services, displays relationships,
vRealize Configuration Manager
(Enterprise edition)
vRealize Hyperic (Full Hyperic
functionality is in Enterprise Edition)
vRealize Log Insight Provides scalable log aggregation and indexing for the vRealize Suite,
environment, from individual virtual machines and disk drives to entire
clusters and datacenters. It stores and analyzes the data, and uses that
analysis to provide real-time information about problems, or potential
problems, anywhere in your virtual environment.
and maps dependencies of applications on virtualized compute, storage, and
network resources.
Automates configuration and compliance management across your virtual,
physical and cloud environments, assessing them for operational and security
compliance.
Provides monitoring of operating systems, middleware, and applications
running in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
including all editions of vSphere, with near real-time search and analytics
capabilities. Log Insight collects, imports, and analyzes logs to provide realtime answers to problems related to systems, services, and applications, and
derive important insights.
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