The Operations management architecture includes VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ and VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ to provide real-time monitoring and logging for the infrastructure and compute workloads in the Telco Cloud Platform RAN solution.
vRealize Log Insight
vRealize Log Insight collects data from ESXi hosts using the syslog protocol. vRealize Log Insight has the following capabilities:
Connects to other VMware products such as VMware vCenter Server® to collect events, tasks, and alarm data.
Integrates with vRealize Operations Manager to send notification events and enable launch in context.
Functions as a collection and analysis point for any system that sends syslog data.
To collect additional logs, you can install an ingestion agent on Linux or Windows servers or use the preinstalled agent on specific VMware products. Preinstalled agents are useful for custom application logs and operating systems such as Windows that do not natively support the syslog protocol.
As the Kubernetes and Container adoptions are increasing in Telco 5G, vRealize Log Insight can also be the centralized log management platform for Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. Cloud Administrators can easily configure container logs to forward to vRLI using industry-standard Open Source log agents such as FluentD and Fluentbit. Any logs written to standard output (stdout) by the container pod are sent to vRLI by the log agent, with no changes to the CNF itself.
vRealize Operations Manager
vRealize Operations Manager tracks and analyzes the operation of multiple data sources by using specialized analytic algorithms. These algorithms help vRealize Operations Manager learn and predict the behavior of every object it monitors. Users access this information by using views, reports, and dashboards.
For VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN, vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight are optional components.
