Using cloud proxies in VMware Aria Operations, you can collect and monitor data from your public cloud environments (Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure). You can deploy one or more cloud proxies on VMware Aria Operations to create a one-way communication between your end-point environment and VMware Aria Operations. The cloud proxies work as one-way remote collectors and upload data from the end-point environment to VMware Aria Operations. Cloud proxies can support multiple cloud accounts.

Prerequisites

  • Allow outgoing HTTPS traffic for cloud proxy using port 443.
  • Allow outgoing traffic from the endpoints to cloud proxy using port 443.

Procedure

  1. Log in to VMware Aria Operations.
  2. From the left menu, click Data Sources > Cloud Proxy, and then click New.
  3. Click the Target Location drop-down and select one of the following.
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS).
      1. Click the AWS image URL.

        The AWS portal opens. Log in to your AWS account if prompted.

      2. Click Launch Instance with AMI. For more information on how to launch the instance from AMI, see the VMware KB article 88673.
      3. Click the Regenerate Key icon to avoid using an expired key and then click the Copy Key icon to copy the unique registration key for the User Data field in the Advanced section on the AWS EC2 instance creation page.
      4. Launch the instance. It will take a few minutes for VMware Aria Operations to detect the newly deployed cloud proxy after it is launched and powered up in AWS.
    • Microsoft Azure.
      1. Click the Microsoft Azure URL.

        The Microsoft Azure portal opens. Log in to your Microsoft Azure account if prompted.

      2. Click Create. For more information on how to create a VM from Microsoft Azure, see the VMware KB article 88672.
      3. Click the Regenerate Key icon to avoid using an expired key and then click the Copy Key icon to copy the unique registration key for the User Data field in the Advanced section on the Microsoft Azure VM instance creation page.
      4. Launch the instance. It will take a few minutes for VMware Aria Operations to detect the newly deployed cloud proxy after it is launched and powered up in Microsoft Azure.
  4. Return to the Cloud Proxy page in VMware Aria Operations to view the status of the cloud proxy you just installed. For more information, see Monitoring the Health of Cloud Proxies.

What to do next

For AWS you must deploy one cloud proxy per account. To be able to collect metrics from different regions, you must ensure the connectivity between the AWS EC2 instances and cloud proxy.

For Microsoft Azure you must deploy one cloud proxy per account. To be able to collect metrics from different regions, you must ensure the connectivity between the Microsoft AzureVM instances and cloud proxy.