What is vCenter Operations Manager used for?

vCenter Operations Manager is utilized primarily for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing performance in virtualized environments. It provides insights into the health, capacity, and performance of the virtual infrastructure, allowing administrators to maintain optimal performance levels by identifying issues, trends, and opportunities for improvement. This includes functions like resource utilization tracking, performance analytics, and capacity planning, which are essential for ensuring that the virtual environment operates efficiently and effectively.

The focus of vCenter Operations Manager is on performance management rather than backup, development of new virtual machines, or network configuration. Backing up virtual machine data is typically handled by different solutions focused on data protection, while the development of virtual machines would involve tools designed for provisioning and deploying VMs. Network settings configuration would pertain to networking tools that manage the virtual networking aspects of the environment. Each of these activities falls outside the core functionality provided by vCenter Operations Manager, which centers on operational oversight and optimization.