8.1.3 vCenter Operations Manager Example
vCenter Operations Manager can be configured for different types of workload scenarios. For this scenario, vCenter Operations Manager is deployed as a medium type deployment which is appropriate for supporting an environment of approximately 3,000 virtual machines.
The vCenter Operations Manager vApp consists
of two virtual machines,
one for
the UI and the other for analytics
, as shown in Figure 44.
The UI VM is responsible for the following:
vSphere web application
Custom web application
Administration web application
The Analytics virtual machine is responsible for collecting the data from the endpoints. In this example, data is collected from vCenter and Hyperic. Both of these endpoints have software adapters installed that will be configured to collect data. The analytics virtual machine is responsible for the following:
Capacity and performan
ce analytics
Capacity collector
File
system database
PostgeSQL database
Figure 44. vCenter Operations Manager vApp Components
