Operations management includes vRealize Network Insight, vRealize Log Insight, and vRealize Operations to provide real-time monitoring and logging for the infrastructure and compute workloads.
vRealize Network Insight
vRealize Network Insight collects and analyzes operational information about network data sources such as NSX-T Data Center and vCenter Server. You can access this information through dashboards.
vRealize Network Insight allows for application discovery, application visibility, and enhanced troubleshooting capabilities by collecting and analyzing inventory, metadata, and flow telemetry of the infrastructure traffic using sFlow/IPFIX. vRealize Network Insight provides detailed traffic distribution patterns and real-time views of network traffic and patterns.
vRealize Log Insight
vRealize Log Insight collects data from Telco Cloud Platform using the syslog protocol. vRealize Log Insight has the following capabilities:
Connects to other VMware products such as vCenter Server and ESXi hosts to collect events, tasks, and alarm data.
Integrates with vRealize Operations 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 that are 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
vRealize Operations tracks and analyzes the operations of multiple data sources using specialized analytic algorithms. These algorithms help vRealize Operations learn and predict the behavior of every object it monitors. Users access this information by using views, reports, and dashboards.
vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight are optional components in VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN.
