Logical Design for Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation

vRealize Operations Manager communicates with management components of the SDDC to collect metrics which are presented through various dashboards and views.

Figure 1. Logical Design of vRealize Operations Manager

The vRealize Operations Manager logical components include an analytics cluster, remote collector groups, and metric adapters.

The remote collector nodes ease scalability by performing the data collection from each VMware Cloud Foundation instance and periodically sending collected data to the analytics cluster. The remote collector nodes communicate directly with the data nodes in the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster.

Table 1. vRealize Operations Manager Logical Components

Component	Single VMware Cloud Foundation Instance with a Single Availability Zone	Single VMware Cloud Foundation Instance with Multiple Availability Zones	Multiple VMware Cloud Foundation Instances
Analytics cluster	Three medium-size nodes with a load balancer deployed on the cross-instance NSX segment in the management domain. This topology provides high availability and scale-out capacity up to 16 nodes. vSphere HA protects the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster.	Three medium-size nodes with a load balancer deployed on the cross-instance NSX segment in the management domain. This topology provides high availability and scale-out capacity up to 16 nodes. vSphere HA protects the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster. A DRS rule specifies that the analytics cluster nodes run on ESXi hosts in the first availability zone.	In the first VMware Cloud Foundation instance, three medium-size nodes with a load balancer deployed on the cross-instance NSX segment in the management domain. This topology provides high availability, scale-out capacity up to 16 nodes, and failover. vSphere HA protects the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster.
Remote collectors	A group of two remote collector nodes deployed on the local-instance NSX segment in the management domain.	A group of two remote collector nodes deployed on the local-instance NSX segment in the management domain.	In each VMware Cloud Foundation instance, a group of two remote collector nodes deployed on the corresponding local-instance NSX segment in the management domain.
Metric adapters	NSX-T Data Center vCenter Server vSAN Workspace ONE Access Additional solutions	NSX-T Data Center vCenter Server vSAN Workspace ONE Access Additional solutions	Adapters in the first VMware Cloud Foundation instance only: Workspace ONE Access Adapters in each VMware Cloud Foundation instance: NSX-T Data Center vCenter Server vSAN Additional solutions