Table of contents Introduction Best Practices Concepts Areas of Best practices Platform best practices Storage Approach General guidelines… 555666677 Architecture… High Availability(HA)…… Remote Collectors…. anders Deployment 899 Backup& Restore.… 144 Disaster Recovery Self-Monito API and Integration End Point Operations Manager Sizing. Deployment…… Content best practices 16 Metrics Alerts& Symptoms Review Out-Of-The-Box(OOTB) 16 Views and reports Super Metrics…… Polic Account and roles Maintenance Schedule vRealize Operations Manager Best Practices /2vRealize Operations Manager Best Practices /2 Table of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................5 Best Practices Concepts...............................................................................................................5 Areas of Best Practices............................................................................................................5 Platform Best Practices....................................................................................................................6 Sizing...........................................................................................................................................6 Storage Approach ....................................................................................................................6 General Guidelines..................................................................................................................6 Architecture .................................................................................................................................7 High Availability (HA)............................................................................................................7 Remote Collectors...................................................................................................................8 Load Balancers........................................................................................................................8 Deployment .................................................................................................................................9 Upgrade .......................................................................................................................................9 Cluster ...................................................................................................................................11 Backup & Restore......................................................................................................................13 Backup...................................................................................................................................13 Restore...................................................................................................................................14 Disaster Recovery......................................................................................................................14 Self-Monitoring .........................................................................................................................14 API and Integration....................................................................................................................15 End Point Operations Manager..................................................................................................15 Sizing.....................................................................................................................................15 Deployment ...........................................................................................................................15 Content Best Practices....................................................................................................................16 Metrics.......................................................................................................................................16 Alerts & Symptoms ...................................................................................................................16 Review Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) ........................................................................................16 Dashboards ................................................................................................................................17 Views and Reports.....................................................................................................................19 Views.....................................................................................................................................19 Reports...................................................................................................................................19 Super Metrics.............................................................................................................................19 Policies.......................................................................................................................................20 Account and Roles.....................................................................................................................20 Maintenance Schedule ...............................................................................................................20 Grouping....................................................................................................................................20