The Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director collects information for Provider vDC, Organization, Organization vDC, vApp, and VM entities from the VMware Cloud Director database and creates the corresponding objects in VMware Aria Operations. The Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director can optionally import events for these VMware Cloud Director entities.

The Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director maps the vApps that it imports to virtual machine objects that the vCenter adapter has already imported and creates object relationships between the vApps and the virtual machines.

The Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director does not collect performance data from VMware Cloud Director. Instead, the Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director enables VMware Aria Operations to present health data by mapping VMware Cloud Director entities to vCenter Server objects. The vCenter adapter collects performance data for vCenter Server objects.

The list of object types that Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director collects are as follows.
  • vCloud World
  • Organization
  • PVDC - Provider Virtual Data Center
  • OVDC - Organization Virtual Data Center
  • vApp
  • Cloud Cell
  • vCloud vCenter
  • vCloud Host
  • vCloud Datastore
  • Org VDC Storage Policy
  • Provider VDC Storage Policy
  • Organization VDC Network
  • vCloud Virtual Machine
  • vCloud Network Pool
  • vCloud External Network
  • vCloud Entity Status - The Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director creates several types of entity status in VMware Aria Operations user interface and depending on the object entity status, these objects are added to the appropriate object type.
  • vCloud Edge Gateway
  • vCloud Licensing
  • vCloud vApp Network
  • vCloud Datastore Cluster
  • Media
  • Catalog
  • vApp Templates
  • Independent Disks
  • VM Sizing Policy
  • Kubernetes Cluster - Set the Enable Container Service Extension setting under Advanced Settings to true, when you configure the Management Pack for vCloud Director.

Relationship with Objects Collected by Other Management Packs

NSX-T Adapter: The vCloud edge gateway object of the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director is related to the NSX-T Adapter's tier 1 logical router object.

vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX for vSphere: The vCloud edge gateway object of the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director is related to the vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX for vSphere edge gateway object.

VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Cloud Director Availability: The Org VDC object of the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director has the replication object of VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Cloud Director Availability as the child object type.

vCenter Adapter: For details see the vCloud Director Resource Relationship diagram.