Monitor the required resources as a provider

As a provider, in VMware Cloud Director Availability, you can see the required destination site resources per source site, per organization or an organization VDC, per provider VDC, or per replication for failing over the protected workloads in the destination site. With this information, you can calculate the level of over-provisioning in the disaster recovery infrastructure and provide extra capacity for the tenants.

VMware Cloud Director Availability presents the destination site required resources as the sum of the CPU, memory, and disk capacity resources provisioned on failover for all incoming replications.

Prerequisites

• Verify that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.4 or later is deployed in the cloud site for selecting the Source sites filter.
• Verify that you can access VMware Cloud Director Availability as a provider. For more information, see Accessing the VMware Cloud Director Availability Provider Portal.

Procedure

• To see the aggregated required resources for failing over to this destination site, at the bottom of the Dashboard page, under Required resources select one or more Source sites or select All.

  Required resources

  For all incoming replications from the selected source sites, Required resources aggregates the following information:

  • For the selected source sites, Top 5 organizations displays each of the organizations, up to five. With more than five organizations, displays the top five organizations and an Other category, that aggregates the remaining organizations.
  • CPU, Memory, and Disk capacity required resources for each displayed organization.
  • Three piecharts aggregating the proportional required resources for CPU, for memory, and for disk capacity among the displayed organizations.

  Note: For outgoing replications, to see their required resources, for example, outgoing from site A to site B, log in to site B and from the Source sites filter, select site A. This selection shows the required resources for failing over all the incoming replications to site B from site A.

• To see the resources required by an organization, in the left pane click Reports and click the Organization Resources tab.

  Organization resources

  The table shows the resources required for failing over to this site for each organization. By expanding an organization, you can also see the required resources for each organization VDC in it.

• To see the resources required by a provider VDC, in the left pane click Reports and click the Provider VDC Resources tab.

  Provider VDC resources

  The table shows the resources required for failing over to this site for each provider VDC. At the top of the page, you can see the sum of the combined required resources from all provider VDCs.

• To see the resources required by a replicated workload, in the left pane, click Incoming Replications or Outgoing Replications. Then, to see the resources required by the replications, under Show details click Resources.

  Replication resources

  The replications view table shows columns for CPU, for Memory, and for Disk capacity resources required for failing over of each replication.