Management and Infrastructure Monitoring
2.1 Overview
This use case is primarily intended to give a Service Provider the ability to leverage features of vRealize Operations for monitoring infrastructure components such as VMware ESXi™, datastores, port groups, and so on. Monitoring of VMs is limited to the management environment only. Tenants do not have access because all Tenant VMs are excluded from monitoring.
First and third-party Management Packs can be used, within the limits of the licensed vRealize Operations edition, to monitor components within the management environment. This allows the Service Provider to perform essential day 2 activities, such as monitoring for failures, performing capacity planning, and leveraging predictive analytics provided by vRealize Operations.
Before committing to this use case, VMware recommends that the Service Provider perform an analysis of licensing to determine the optimal license model and features provided by this use case. Metering for this use case, where all VMs are excluded from monitoring, is not currently metered correctly by VMware vCloud® Usage Meter. That essentially leaves vRealize Operations standalone as the only option because vCloud Usage Meter is needed to handle metering for bundles. In addition to a vRealize Operations license, a vCloud SP bundle that does not have monitoring is required to license the remainder of the infrastructure.
The management infrastructure has these features:
• Monitor ESXi, datastores, port groups, and so on
• Includes all VMs in management clusters
• Guest level monitoring for VMs and physical servers
• Capacity calculations based on VM demand
• Licensed based on monitored VMs
• Physical servers licensed based on OSI
Tenant infrastructure has these features:
• Monitor ESXi, datastores, port groups, and so on
• All Tenant VMs in resource clusters and physical servers are excluded from monitoring
• Capacity calculations based on ESXi host demand
• Licensed based on physical OSI
Figure 1. Management and Infrastructure Monitoring
Note This figure depicts vRealize Operations Standlone licenses only. An appropriate vCloud bundle is still required to license the remaining infrastructure components.
