5.3 Monitoring Public Cloud Logical Resources
VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers provides the abstraction layer that pools SDDC resources and provides a multi-tenant platform for consuming them as a public cloud. In a service provider environment, monitoring must extend to the abstraction layer to allow a service provider to manage performance, capacity, and availability, and to troubleshoot any issues that arise.
Monitoring public cloud logical resources with vRealize Operations Manager addresses the following use cases:
• Monitoring the health of vCloud Director entities to identify issues before the business is affected
• Showing the relationship between vCloud Director vApps and vSphere virtual machines
• Providing a global dashboard view of vCloud Director health and capacity where issues can be quickly identified and addressed
• Providing dashboards that give administrators a view of the utilization, capacity, and health of public cloud resources