Extend the monitoring capabilities of your vRealize Operations to monitor the VMware Cloud on AWS by creating a cloud account. Ensure that you have a cloud proxy or remote collector deployed on the VMware Cloud SDDC.

Procedure

  1. Deploy the vRealize Operations remote collectors in VMware Cloud, see Create a Remote Collector.
    Note:

    Deploy the OVF in the SDDC-Data Center level and select the Compute Resource Pools and validate your deployment. You can only select the workload datastore for storage when deploying the OVF in VMware Cloud.

    Since VMware Cloud is set in an isolated network, the remote collectors cannot view or connect to the primary node. To collect data, you must set up the bidirectional access between the vRealize Operations primary node and the remote collectors you have created. To do so, you can use a VPN or create a direct connection with no-NAT.

  2. Add and configure an adapter instance in the vRealize Operations cluster in VMware Cloud. For more information, see the Configuring a VMware Cloud on AWS Instance in vRealize Operations topic in the vRealize Operations Configuration Guide.
    Note:

    Incase of a vCenter adapter instance, set the Cloud Type to VMware Cloud on AWS.

    Ensure that the remote collector is assigned to the adapter instance and the data collection happens through the remote collectors that you have set up. Select the newly deployed remote collectors for Collectors/Groups under Advanced Settings.

    Figure 1. vRealize Operations On-Premises collecting data from VMware Cloud and AWS without remote data collectors

    Collection of data from VMware Cloud and AWS without remote data collectors.
    Figure 2. vRealize Operations On-Premises collecting data from VMware Cloud and AWS with remote data collectors

    Collection of data from VMware Cloud and AWS through remote data collectors that you have set up.