vRealize Operations provides the following three key benefits within an environment:
Capacity optimization: vRealize Operations helps you optimize the capacity of your infrastructure and applications by providing visibility, analysis, planning, and automation. You can monitor and forecast the demand, supply, and utilization of resources, identify and reclaim unused or overprovisioned resources, balance the workload across clusters and datastores, and plan for future growth or consolidation scenarios. You can also automate the capacity optimization actions based on policies and alerts.
Performance optimization: vRealize Operations helps you optimize the performance of your infrastructure and applications by providing real-time and historical metrics, alerts, dashboards, and reports. You can monitor and troubleshoot the health, risk, and efficiency of your environment, identify and resolve performance issues, analyze the root cause and impact of problems, and optimize the configuration and placement of your workloads. You can also automate the performance optimization actions based on policies and alerts.
Monitoring and troubleshooting: vRealize Operations helps you monitor and troubleshoot your environment by providing comprehensive and integrated visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. You can collect and analyze data from various sources, such as vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, etc., and correlate them to provide a unified view of your environment. You can also leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect anomalies, generate smart alerts, and provide recommendations. You can also use various tools, such as dashboards, heat maps, topology maps, logs, etc., to drill down into the details and resolve issues faster.
References: vRealize Operations Overview; vRealize Operations Cloud for Service Providers; What’s New in vRealize Operations 8.6
