With vRealize Operations 6.3 out there for close to 3 weeks now, I have seen a number of posts around the new features. What I have not seen being spoken about is this hidden gem called "VMware SDDC Health Solution".
I believe this is the first step towards, monitoring the VMware SDDC Stack using vRealize operations, which goes beyond monitoring performance, utilization or capacity. This solution helps you go deep into the various roles of the management stack for application level monitoring. To begin with, the solution has been rolled out as a Version 1.0.
With this first release, the SDDC Solution will help you monitor the key services of vRealize Operations Manager and vCenter Server. It will provide a fancy out of the the box dashboard which will help you monitor these services and some out of the box, pre-configured alerts which will help you troubleshoot issues when they arise. The hope is that VMware will take this solution with the future releases to other components of the SDDC stack, inclusive of the entire management and automation stack to have a full fledged monitoring solution for the entire SDDC stack out of the box. While it is possible to monitor the entire stack today, but having a solution which can bring everything at one place with minimal effort is GOLD... I believe this is a step in that direction and I am ready to implement the solution for my customers.
Here is the solution brief:
Overview
VMware SDDC Health Solution provides Single pane of glass towards the SDDC Management stack and provides health, efficiency, validation and configuration. VMware SDDC Health Solution Version 1.0 supports the following:
- vCenter health
- vRealize Operations Manager health
Highlights
- SDDC Management Apps Health Overview
- SDDC Application Components Overview
- SDDC Management App Alerts
Description
SDDC Health solution bundles the capability of monitoring various application components of the SDDC management stack. The current version of SDDC Health solution combines the Health aspects from the vRealize Operations Manager and vCenter Server Appliance in to a Single dashboard.
Compatibility
VMware SDDC Health Solution is compatible with:
- VMware vCenter Server 5.5
- VMware vCenter Server 6.0
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.3
Resources
The installation and configuration is available on the user guide and is pretty simple to follow. So go ahead and get on the journey of closely monitoring your SDDC environments.
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Hello,
ReplyDeleteWhere is the 6.3 version ? It doesn't seem to be available in myVmware, only the 6.2.0a....
Found it: you shouldn't look into VCloud Suite, where the only version avaible is 6.2.0a, but directly to VROPS product.
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