Install the .pak file of the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution which provides a consolidated view of the VMware Cloud Foundation management components and the associated health and configuration metrics. Additionally, the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution provides dashboards to monitor the VMware Cloud Foundation environment.

You can skip this procedure if your version of VMware Cloud Foundation is 4.4. or higher. For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4 or higher, vRealize Operations Manager includes the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution.

UI Procedure

  1. Log in to the vRealize Operations Manager operations interface at https://<vrealize_operations_manager_fqdn> with a user assigned the Administrator role.
  2. In the left pane, navigate to Data sources > Integrations.
  3. Click the Repository tab and click Add.

    The Add solution wizard opens.

  4. On the Select solution page, click Browse, navigate to the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution .pak file, click Open, and click Upload.

  5. When the upload finishes, click Next.

  6. On the End user license agreement page, accept the license agreement and click Next.

  7. When the installation finishes, on the Install solution page, click Finish.

PowerShell Procedure

  1. Start Windows PowerShell.

  2. Replace the values in the sample code with values from your VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook and run the commands in the PowerShell console.

    $sddcManagerFqdn = "sfo-vcf01.sfo.rainpole.io"
    $sddcManagerUser = "administrator@vsphere.local"
    $sddcManagerPass = "VMw@re1!"
    
  3. Perform the configuration by running the command in the PowerShell console.

    Enable-vROPSManagementPack -server $sddcManagerFqdn -user $sddcManagerUser -pass $sddcManagerPAss -packType "SDDC Health"
  4. Navigate to the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution .pak file and click Open.