You can activate the diagnostics capabilities for your VMware Cloud Foundation environments by configuring integrations to them, and by installing and configuring VMware Aria Operations for Logs.

To fully leverage diagnostics capabilities:
  1. Verify that you have deployed and installed VMware Aria Operations. See, the Deployment of VMware Aria Operations topic in Getting Started with VMware Aria Operations Guide.
  2. Install VMware Aria Operations for Logs. See the Installing VMware Aria Operations for Logs topic in the Getting Started with VMware Aria Operations Guide.
  3. Integrate VMware Aria Operations with VMware Aria Operations for Logs. See the Configuring VMware Aria Operations for Logs with VMware Aria Operations topic in the Configuring VMware Aria Operations guide.
  4. Integrate VMware Aria Operations for Logs with VMware Aria Operations to enable communication between VMware Aria Operations and the VMware Aria Operations for Logs instance. See the Using VMware Aria Operations with VMware Aria Operations for Logs topic in the Administering VMware Aria Operations for Logs guide.
    Note: The diagnostic analysis uses log statements and vSphere events collected by VMware Aria Operations for Logs. VMware Aria Operations can only integrate with a single VMware Aria Operations for Logs instance. If the required data for a specific product, say a vCenter, is not present in VMware Aria Operations for Logs, only a partial analysis of that vCenter can be performed. To meet this requirement, you should ensure that all products in the VMware Aria Operations inventory report this information to a single instance of VMware Aria Operations for Logs or deploy multiple instances of VMware Aria Operations for Logs and configure them to forward the logs and vCenter events to the integrated VMware Aria Operations.
  5. Activate and configure the following adapters in VMware Aria Operations:
    • vCenter. A separate vCenter integration is required for each vCenter that is not part of a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. See the Configure a vCenter Server Cloud Account in VMware Aria Operations topic in the Configuring VMware Aria Operations guide.
      • Enable vSAN collection. See the Verify that the Adapter Instance is Connected and Collecting Data topic in the Configuring VMware Aria Operations guide.
    • NSX. A separate NSX integration is required for each NSX instance that is not part of a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. See the Configuring the NSX Adapter topic in the Configuring VMware Aria Operations guide.
    • VMware Cloud Foundation. See the Configuring VMware Cloud Foundation Cloud Account in VMware Aria Operations topic in the Configuring VMware Aria Operations guide.
      • Enable NSX and vSAN collections for each discovered vSAN cluster and NSX instance.
    • VMware Aria Automation. See the Configuring VMware Aria Automation with VMware Aria Operations topic in the Configuring VMware Aria Operations guide.
  6. Configure vCenter events and ESXi log collection from VMware Aria Operations for Logs UI. See the Connect VMware Aria Operations for Logs to vSphere Environment topic in the Administering VMware Aria Operations for Logs guide.
  7. Configure syslog on the configured vCenter to forward its logs to a VMware Aria Operations for Logs instance. Alternatively, you can deploy the VMware Aria Operations for Logs agent in vCenter to configure it to send the logs. See the Configure vCenter Server to Forward Log Events to VMware Aria Operations for Logs topic in the Administering VMware Aria Operations for Logs guide.
  8. Configure log forwarding for SDDC Manager. See the Validate Log Forwarding for SDDC Manager in Region A topic in the Deployment of VMware vRealize Suite 2019 on VMware Cloud Foundation 3.10 guide.