You must configure a dedicated cloud account for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to manage your Oracle Cloud VMware Solution instances in VMware Aria Operations. For successful configuration, the cloud account requires the OCVS tenancy OCID, user OCID, API key fingerprint, API key's private key, and Oracle home region for the Oracle IAM user with appropriate privileges using which the cloud account authenticates, authorizes and communicates with the target Oracle cloud. SDDCs are auto-discovered after you save the cloud account for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. You can then configure the credentials to monitor the underlying vCenter/vSAN and optionally the NSX-T and service discovery for each of the SDDCs.

Prerequisites

  • Create an IAM user in Oracle cloud with the required permissions, generate an API signing key, an API fingerprint, retrieve tenancy OCID, user's OCID, and the user's home region. Refer to the following Oracle documentation pages for more information: Required Keys and OCIDs and Managing Regions.

Procedure

  1. From the left menu, click Data Sources > Integrations.
  2. On the Accounts tab, click Add Account.
  3. On the Accounts Types page, click Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.
  4. Enter a display name and description for the cloud account.
    • Name. Enter the name for the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution instance as you want it to appear in VMware Aria Operations.
    • Description. Enter any additional information that helps you manage your instances.
  5. Enter the Tenancy OCID which is the Oracle cloud identifier for your tenancy. A tenancy is a secure and isolated partition of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to create, organize, and administer your cloud resources.
  6. To add credentials for the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution instance, click the Add icon, and enter the required credentials.
    • Credential Name: The name by which you are identifying the configured credentials.
    • User OCID: Enter the Oracle Cloud identifier of the user calling the API.
    • API Key Fingerprint: Fingerprint for the public key that was added to this user.
    • API Key's Private Key: Enter the API key's private key in string format.
    • Home Region: Enter the Oracle cloud home region. When you sign up for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle creates a tenancy for you in one region. This is your home region.
      Note: Enter the following details if you are using a proxy server to access the internet or public services.
    • Proxy Host/IP: A remote proxy server IP.
    • Proxy Port: The port that is activated on a remote proxy server.
    • Proxy Username: Enter the username of the proxy server or if you want to add a domain configured remote proxy server, then enter the username as username@domain name.
    • Proxy Password: Password for the proxy server username.
  7. Click Validate Connection to validate the connection.
  8. Determine which VMware Aria Operations collector or collector group is used to manage the cloud account. If you have multiple collectors or collector groups in your environment, and you want to distribute the workload to optimize performance, select the collector or collector group to manage the adapter processes for this instance.
    Note: It is recommended that use cloud proxy. Ensure that there is access to the Internet and it can reach the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution SDDC's vCenter, and NSX-T FQDNs. If the outbound internet access for the cloud proxy must be restricted, ensure the minimum cloud proxy prerequisites are met. Ensure that you have Internet connectivity for the collectors to work. For more details see, Configuring Cloud Proxies in VMware Aria Operations.
    Note: If you have installed cloud proxy in an Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, the cloud proxy may not have outbound internet access to reach the VMware Aria Operations service. To activate outbound internet access for the deployed cloud proxy, follow the steps as described in the Oracle documentation in the following topic: Configuring Networking Connectivity for an SDDC.
  9. Under Advanced Settings, enter the following details:
    • (Optional) Configuration Limits File Name: The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution account uses the following default configuration maximum file: ocvs_config_limits. This file contains the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution configuration maximum soft and hard limits, and their configured value in VMware Aria Operations. If you have increased the limits for any of the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution configurations, you must update the this configuration file to reflect the new limit in VMware Aria Operations.
  10. Click Save.
    The page to configure the SDDCs in Oracle Cloud VMware Solution appears.
  11. From the list of available SDDCs in Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, click any one of the SDDCs that you want to monitor from VMware Aria Operations.
  12. Configure the vCenter adapter:
    1. Click the vCenter tab, and enter the required credentials.
      • Credential Name. The name by which you are identifying the configured credentials.
      • User Name. The vCenter Server user name. Use a user with the 'cloudadmin' role which has full visibility to vCenter Server. Users with less privileges have limited visibility, for example, the read-only users do not have visibility into management VMs.
      • Password. The vCenter Server password configured for that vCenter Server user name.
    2. Select the required collector group.
      Note:

      If you have direct connectivity with your VMware Cloud vCenter Server, select Default collector group. If you are using a private IP for your vCenter Server or if you want to deploy Telegraf agents for application monitoring, select Cloud Proxy. The best practice is to deploy the Cloud Proxy on each SDDC instance of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.

      Select the cloud proxy deployed on the given vCenter Server and ensure it has access to the Internet. If the outbound internet access for the cloud proxy must be restricted, ensure that the minimum cloud proxy prerequisites are met.

      For details, see Configuring Cloud Proxies in VMware Aria Operations.

      It is advised not to use the default collector groups as the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution management gateway firewall rule does not allow traffic originating from any address.

      If you have configured an HTTP proxy on your VMware Aria Operations cloud proxy, ensure that your HTTP proxy has an exception to access the NSX-T Management Policy endpoint.

    3. If you have installed cloud proxy in an Oracle Cloud VMware Solution SDDC, the cloud proxy may not have outbound internet access to reach the VMware Aria Operations service. To activate outbound internet access for the deployed cloud proxy, follow the steps as described in the Oracle documentation in the following topic: Configuring Networking Connectivity for an SDDC.
  13. Configure the vSAN Adapter.
    1. Click the vSAN tab. By default, the vSAN adapter is activated.
    2. Select Use alternate credentials to add alternate credentials. Click the plus icon, and enter the credential name, vCenter Server username, and password, and click OK.
    3. Select Enable SMART data collection, if required.
    4. Click Validate Connection to validate the connection.
    5. Click Next.
  14. Configure the NSX-T adapter.
    1. Click the NSX-T tab and the enter the required credentials.
    2. Activate NSX-T configuration if it is deactivated.
    3. Click the Add icon next to the Credential field and enter the required credentials.
      • Credential Kind: Select either the NSX-T client certificate credential option or NSX-T credentials.
      • Credential Name: The name by which you are identifying the configured credentials.
      • User Name: The user name of the NSX-T instance if you have selected NSX-T credentials as the credentials kind.
      • Password: The password of the NSX-T instance if you have selected NSX-T credentials as the credentials kind.
      • Client certificate data: Enter client certificate data if you have selected NSX-T client certificate credentials as the credentials kind.
      • Client key data: Enter client key data if you have selected NSX-T client certificate credentials as the credentials kind.
      • Click OK.
    4. Click Validate Connection to validate the connection.
  15. (Optional) Configure Service Discovery. For more information, see Configure Service and Application Discovery.
  16. Click Save This SDDC.
    For installation details, see Installing VMware Aria Operations on VMware Cloud.