The Health Reporting and Monitoring for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution has objectives to deliver prescriptive content about the solution so that it is fast to deploy and is suitable for use in production environments.

VMware Validated Solution Objective

Description

Main objective

Provide health monitoring for the VMware Cloud Foundation components by using HTML reports and through custom dashboards, alerts, and notifications in VMware Aria Operations.

VMware Cloud Foundation architecture support

vSAN ReadyNodes

  • Standard

    • Single VMware Cloud Foundation instance

    • Multiple VMware Cloud Foundation instances

  • Consolidated

Dell VxRail Nodes

  • Standard 

    • Single VMware Cloud Foundation instance

    • Multiple VMware Cloud Foundation instances

  • Consolidated

Workload domain type support
  • Management workload domain

  • Virtual infrastructure (VI) workload domain

Scope of implementation

Configuration of solution components:

  • SDDC Manager

  • VMware Aria Operations

Installation and configuration of solution components:

  • PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Reporting

  • Python Module for VMware Cloud Foundation Health Monitoring in VMware Aria Operations

Scope of guidance

  • Detailed design for solution components.

  • Implementation guidance for solution components.

  • Operational guidance for the solution components, such as operational verification, password management, report generation, and monitoring.

Cloud type

Private Cloud

Authentication, authorization, and access control

  • Use of SDDC Manager credentials with least-privilege access.

  • Use of VMware Aria Operations credentials with least-privilege access.