The VMware Cloud Foundation system provides built-in capabilities to help you perform effective operations monitoring, troubleshooting, performance management, infrastructure capacity planning, and compliance monitoring and auditing.
You use the built-in monitoring capabilities for these typical scenarios.
| Scenario | Examples |
|---|---|
| Are the systems online? | A host or other component shows a failed or unhealthy status. |
| Why did a storage drive fail? | Hardware-centric views spanning inventory, configuration, usage, and event history to provide for diagnosis and resolution. |
| Is the infrastructure meeting tenant service level agreements (SLAs)? | Analysis of system and device-level metrics to identify causes and resolutions. |
| At what future time will the systems get overloaded? | Trend analysis of detailed system and device-level metrics, with summarized periodic reporting. |
| What person performed which action and when? | History of secured user actions, with periodic reporting. Workflow task history of actions performed in the system. |
The monitoring capabilities involve these features:
