Chapter 5. Policies in vRealize Operations Manager 6.0

In the previous chapter, you learned about the Product UI and the components that it comprises of. It is time now to look at policies and what role policies play in vROps 6.0 over its previous versions; this will give us an insight into how ingrained policies are in day-to-day use of vROps 6.0. In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • What are policies?
  • How to create and modify policies
  • How to create modular policies to allow the reuse of small policies across the environment

What are policies?

In vCOps 5.8.x or its earlier versions, policies were primarily focused on capacity management and to what extent badges changed alert levels. vCOps gave the ability to change allocation ratios, including ...

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