Advanced workload placement using vRealize Operations Manager

vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations Manager can work together to optimally place deployment workloads.

You enable workload placement at the vSphere based cloud zone level. Only Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) enabled clusters of a cloud zone are eligible for advanced placement using vRealize Operations Manager.

• vRealize Automation placement—The vRealize Automation placement engine is application intent based. It considers tag-based constraints, project membership and the associated cloud zones, and affinity filters related to network, storage, and compute. Resource placement depends on all of these factors plus the presence of other, related target resources in the same deployment.

• vRealize Operations Manager placement—vRealize Operations Manager considers operational intent for optimal placement. Operational intent can take past workloads and future, what-if predictions into account.

  When using advanced workload placement, you must apply vRealize Automation tagging in order to implement business intent decisions, instead of using the vRealize Operations Manager business intent options.

When integrating with vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Automation continues to follow its application intent model and its related constraints to filter for target placement. Then, from within those results, it uses the vRealize Operations Manager recommendation to further refine placement.

In the absence of a recommendation

If you enable advanced workload placement, and vRealize Operations Manager analysis returns no recommendations, you may configure vRealize Automation to fall back to its default, application intent placement.