The operations management components are deployed as a centralized function that is capable of day 1 and day 2 operations spanning the CSP's deployment topology. The data collection architecture is specific to each operations management component with a centralized single pane for monitoring, reporting, troubleshooting, and closed-loop automation.
vRealize Operations Manager
vRealize Operations Manager is configured with adapters for vCenter Server, End-Point Operations Management, vSAN, OpenStack and NSX. These adapters are necessary to start collecting data from the infrastructure.
For large scale deployments of vRealize Operations Manager, a remote collector is an optional component that allows vRealize Operations Manager to perform monitoring at scale. The remote collector is typically deployed in the Edge site(s) to reduce the frequency of updates from Core data center to the Edge sites, and/or reduce the load on the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster.
By default, VMware offers Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large configurations during installation. The CSP can size the environment according to the existing infrastructure to be monitored. After the vRealize Operations Manager instance outgrows the existing size, the CSP must expand the cluster to add nodes of the same size. See the vRealize Operations Manager Sizing Guidelines.
vRealize Log Insight
VMware vRealize Log Insight delivers real-time, heterogeneous and highly scalable log management with intuitive, actionable dashboards, sophisticated analytics and broad third-party extensibility, providing deep operational visibility and faster troubleshooting. The key components include built-in Syslog server and Log Insight agent which gathers log events natively from multiple syslog data sources through special management packs and intelligently group.
vRealize Log Insight provides preset VM sizes that the CSP can select from to meet the ingestion requirements of their environment, Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large configurations. These presets are certified size combinations of compute and disk resources, though extra resources can be added later. For sizing details, see the VMware Documentation
vRealize Network Insight
vRealize Network Insight provides operations for software-defined networking and security across virtual and physical infrastructure with micro-segmentation planning that can be scaled to thousands of VNFs.
The vRealize Network Insight architecture consists of a platform VM, a proxy VM, and data sources. The platform VM provides analytics, storage, and a user interface to the data. The proxy VM, or the collector, collects data using various protocols such as HTTPS, SSH, CLI, and SNMP, depending on the source and the configuration. A variety of data sources are supported, including vCenter Server, NSX-T Data Center, firewalls, and various switch vendors.
The platform VM is deployed as a single cluster to provide high availability and scale. A minimum of three platform VMs are required in the cluster. The proxy VMs are used to collect data and can be deployed in a single data center or distributed across sites. Depending on the amount of data that will be collected, typically CSPs need one or more proxy VMs.
Ensure that the system meets the minimum hardware configurations to install vRealize Network Insight. For sizing details, see VMware Documentation.
