Scalable Licensing in vRealize Operations : Tenant Monitoring with a Single vRealize Operations Instance : 3.3 Configuration : 3.3.2 Adapter Instance Configuration
   
3.3.2 Adapter Instance Configuration
If all VMs within a vCenter Server will be monitored, add the adapter instance using the default settings. Otherwise, do the following to create the adapter instance:
For vCenter Server nodes where all ESXi hosts and VMs are visible, add adapter instances with default settings.
For adapter instances for vCenter Server nodes where a subset of VMs are visible, set Exclude Virtual Machines from Capacity Calculations to true.
Figure 5. Tenant Workload Monitoring with a Single vRealize Operations Instance Adapter Instance Configuration