4.4 vRealize Operations Manager Monitoring
The vRealize Operations Manager Management Pack for Storage Devices (MSPD) supports the collection of data from vSAN. The management pack can also connect to any storage device that has a vSphere API for Storage Awareness provider as well as SAN/NAS switches from Brocade or Cisco using SMI-S. Performance data is also collected from host HBAs, NICS, VMs, and SAN/NAS switches.
In typical vRealize Operations fashion, out-of-the-box monitoring is provided across clusters, HDD/SSD devices, network, CPU, and memory components. The vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices is located in the Cloud Marketplace on the
VMware Solution Exchange web site at
https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store The MPSD allows for comprehensive monitoring of a vSAN environment with vRealize Operations Manager creating dashboards and alerts as required. The default set of dashboards include:
• Troubleshooting – Shows state of the cluster and any anomalies
• Heatmap – Can be used to show heatmap based on different metrics, such as throughput (cluster, controller and disk level)
• Entity Usage – Throughput, latency, bandwidth metrics across controllers, flash devices, and mechanical disks. Useful for locating bottlenecks
• Device insights – Includes SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) metrics, such as wear levelling or reallocated sector count usage
• Cluster Insights – Metrics on cluster as a whole
Figure 22. vRealize Operations with Management Pack for Storage Devices (MPSD)
