What you need for this book

General knowledge of operating, managing, and troubleshooting the vSphere platform is essential in order to get the most out of this book. If you are a vSphere administrator, vRealize Operations will be a valuable tool to help you in your day-to-day job and this book will show you how.

The book has a lot of practical exercises in it, taking you through installation and configuration of the various components in the vRealize Operations solution. A home lab or test/development environment would be a good place to start; however, you will find that deploying the solution against a real environment with real workloads running will offer you the best experience.

You will need the following VMware software to work through all the exercises and examples in the book:

• vSphere 4.0 U2 or above (full integration with vRealize Operations requires vSphere 5.5 or above)
• vRealize Operations 6.1
• vRealize Log Insight 3.0

You can download 60 day evaluations of all this software from my.vmware.com.