Before you deploy vRealize Operations Manager, verify that your environment fulfills the requirements for this deployment.

Verify that your environment fulfills the prerequisites for the deployment of vRealize Operations Manager.

Prerequisite

Value

Storage

  • Virtual disk provisioning: Thin

  • Required storage per analytics cluster node.

    • Initial storage for the analytics cluster node: 274 GB

    • Additional storage for monitoring data per analytics cluster node: 1 TB

Software Features

  • Verify that vCenter Server is operational.

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

  • Verify that the NSX Manager is operational.Verify that the application virtual networks are available.

  • Verify that the Postman application is installed.

  • Verify that the load balancer service is enabled on the NSX Edge service gateway.

  • Verify that vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is operational and data collection from the Management vCenter Server instance has run successfully.

  • Verify that static IP addresses and FQDNs for the application virtual networks are available for the vRealize Operations Manager deployment. See Host Names and IP Addresses for vRealize Suite 2019 and Workspace ONE Access.

Installation Package

  • Download the .pak file for the vRealize Operations Manager Management Pack for NSX for vSphere from VMware Solutions Exchange.

  • Download the .pak file for the vRealize Operations Manager Management Pack for Storage Devices from VMware Solutions Exchange.

  • Download the .pak file for the vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Identity Manager from VMware Solutions Exchange.

License

Verify that you obtained the vRealize Suite or vCloud Suite license with a quantity that fulfills the requirements of this design.

Workspace ONE Access

  • Verify that required Active Directory users are synchronized to the cross-region Workspace ONE Access. See Active Directory User Accounts.

  • Verify that required Active Directory security groups users are synchronized to the cross-region Workspace ONE Access. See Active Directory Groups.

Certificate Authority

Verify that you have a validate SSL certificate. You can generate the certificate using the CertGenVVD utility. See Certificate Generation Utility for VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 6.x (78246).

External Services

  • Verify that you have access to an SMTP server.

  • Verify that SNMP is enabled in your network environment, to monitor network devices.

  • Verify that Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) or Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is enabled on each network device for complete monitoring of your environment.

  • Verify that central NTP services are available.

  • Verify that all DNS addresses resolve both forward and reverse.