vRealize Operations Manager communicates with management components of the SDDC to collect metrics which are presented through various dashboards and views.

Figure 1. Logical Design of vRealize Operations Manager
vRealize Operations Manager deployment includes an analytics cluster behind an NSX-T load balancer and a group of remote collectors in each region. You monitor all SDDC management products that are used in this VMware Validated Design. It consumes identity management services by the cross-region Workspace ONE Access deployment. You access it by using a user interface and API.

The vRealize Operations Manager logical components include an analytics cluster, remote collectors groups, and metric adapters.

The remote collectors ease scalability by performing the data collection from the region-specific applications, and periodically sending collected data to the analytics cluster. The remote collectors communicate directly with the data nodes in the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster.

Table 1. vRealize Operations Manager Logical Components

Component

Single Region

Multiple Availability Zones

Multiple Regions

Analytics cluster

  • Three medium-size nodes with a load balancer. This topology provides high availability and scale-out capacity up to 16 nodes.

  • vSphere HA protects the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster.

  • Three medium-size nodes with a load balancer. This topology provides high availability and scale-out capacity up to 16 nodes.

  • vSphere HA protects the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster.

  • A DRS rule specifies that the analytics cluster nodes run on ESXi hosts in Availability Zone 1.

  • In Region A, three medium-size nodes with a load balancer . This topology provides high availability, scale-out capacity up to 16 nodes, and failover.

  • vSphere HA protects the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster.

Remote collectors

A group of two remote collector nodes.

A group of two remote collector nodes.

In each region, a group of two remote collector nodes.

Metric adapters

  • NSX-T Data Center

  • vCenter Server

  • vSAN

  • Storage devices

  • Workspace ONE Access

  • vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

  • Additional solutions

  • NSX-T Data Center

  • vCenter Server

  • vSAN

  • Storage devices

  • Workspace ONE Access

  • vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

  • Additional solutions

Adapters in Region A only:

  • Workspace ONE Access

  • vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

Adapters in each region:

  • NSX-T Data Center

  • vCenter Server

  • vSAN

  • Storage devices

  • Additional solutions