The Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution has objectives to deliver prescriptive content about the solution so that its fast to deploy and is suitable for use in production environments.

VMware Validated Solution Objective

Description

Main objective

Provide operations monitoring, analytics and reporting for VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure components.

VMware Cloud Foundation architecture support
  • vSAN ReadyNodes

    • Consolidated

    • Standard
      • Single VMware Cloud Foundation instance
      • Multiple VMware Cloud Foundation instances with NSX Federation
      • Single or multiple VMware Cloud Foundation instances with multiple availability zones

  • VxRail Nodes

    • Consolidated

    • Standard
      • Single VMware Cloud Foundation instance
      • Multiple VMware Cloud Foundation instances with NSX Federation
      • Single or multiple VMware Cloud Foundation instances with multiple availability zones
Note: This solution does not cover the integration of vRealize Operations Manager with NSX Federation.

The vRealize Operations Manager version in this solution does not support monitoring of NSX Global Manager instances.

Workload domain type support

  • Management Workload Domain

  • VI Workload Domain
Scope of guidance

  • Detailed design for solution components.

  • Implementation guidance for solution components.

  • Operational guidance for solution components, such as operational verification, password management, certificate management, and scale management.

  • Solution interoperability with solution components, such as logging, and life cycle.

Scope of implementation

  • Deployment and configuration of solution components:

    • vRealize Operations Manager

    • Management Packs

  • Configuration of monitoring of VMware Cloud Foundation components:

    • ESXi

    • vCenter Server

    • NSX Manager

    • SDDC Manager

    • Workspace ONE Access

Cloud type

Private Cloud

Number of VMware Cloud Foundation instances

2

Maximum number of monitored objects

12,500
Load Balancing Provided by NSX-T Data Center.

Overall availability

99%

Authentication, authorization, and access control

  • Use of Workspace ONE Access for authentication

  • Use of security groups and roles for least-privilege access control.

  • Use of service accounts and least-privilege access control for solution integration.

Certificate signing

Certificates are signed by a certificate authority (CA) that consists of a root and intermediate certificate authority layers.