You reuse or create a cross-instance environment in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle and deploy the VMware Aria Operations analytics cluster and VMware Cloud Proxy appliances.

Prerequisites

Verify that your environment fulfills the prerequisites for the deployment of VMware Aria Operations.

Prerequisite

Value

Environment

  • Required storage per analytics cluster node:

    • Initial storage: 274 GB

    • Additional storage for monitoring data: 700 GB

  • Required storage per VMware Cloud Proxy: 84GB

  • Verify that vCenter Server is operational.

  • Verify that the vSphere cluster has vSphere DRS and HA activated.

  • Verify that the NSX Manager is operational.

  • Verify that the cross-instance NSX segment is available for the deployment of VMware Aria Operations analytics nodes.

  • Verify that the local-instance NSX segment is available for the deployment of VMware Cloud Proxy for VMware Aria Operations appliances.

  • Verify that VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle in the first VMware Cloud Foundation instance is operational and data collection from the management domain vCenter Server instance has run successfully.

  • Verify that the clustered Workspace ONE Access deployment managed by VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle is operational.

Software

Verify that the VMware Aria Operations and VMware Cloud Proxy product binaries are available in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

License

Verify that you obtained the VMware Aria Suite or VMware Aria Operations license with a quantity that fulfills the requirements of this design.

Active Directory

  • Verify that the required Active Directory user accounts are created.

  • Verify that the required Active Directory security groups are created.

  • Verify that the required Active Directory security group memberships are set with the required user accounts.

Workspace ONE Access

Verify that the required Active Directory directories are configured with Active Directory over LDAPS. This configuration ensures that the Active Directory users and groups for use by VMware Aria Operations are synchronized to the clustered Workspace ONE Access deployment.

Certificate Authority

This solution uses Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services for Certificate Authority and the CertGenVVS tool for the creation of certificates. However, this tool supports generating certificate signing requests (CSRs) for third party certificate authorities for import to the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle locker.

  • Verify that the Active Directory Certificate Authority is available for the environment.

  • Download the CertGenVVS tool and generate the signed certificate for the VMware Aria Operations with subject alternative names that include the FQDN of the analytics cluster and each VMware Cloud Proxy appliance. See Certificate Generation Utility for VMware Validated Solutions.