We’re very completely happy to announce that the VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.2 is out there within the VMware Market now! It helps the newest vRealize Operations variations and introduces a number of enhancements, akin to new metrics, alerts, and a dashboard.
You possibly can obtain the Administration Pack right here and study all the things about it by watching this video.
VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.2 helps these product variations:
- VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.4.x or later
- VMware Cloud Director 10.1.4 – 10.4.x
- VMware vRealize Operations TenantApp – 8.6.x or later
- VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for VMware Cloud Director 8.6.x or later
- VMware vRealize Operations 8.6.x, 8.10
Observe: VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.2.x and 4.3.x will not be supported. In case you’re working these, please be sure to improve to 4.4.1 earlier than putting in or upgrading your Administration Pack.
The improve process is straightforward and simple. It doesn’t require stopping the lively collections or eradicating the outdated model of the Administration Pack.
You solely want to pick the improve choice and comply with the steps documented within the VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability Set up, Improve, and Use Information.
Observe: Throughout the course of, you will need to verify the Reset Default Content material checkbox earlier than importing the PAK file so solely the related content material shall be in place after the improve is completed.
The replication knowledge assortment of VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.2 is prolonged by metrics associated to RPO violations and even vApp template migrations.
And based mostly on a big Cloud Supplier demand, this new model of the Administration Pack additionally introduces the Website useful resource and collects system well being metrics for the VMware Cloud Director Availability Cloud service – Free disk house, service availability, standing of the connectivity between the totally different parts, license or certificates points, and extra.
These new metrics can be found per VMware Cloud Director Availability occasion beneath Supplier Incoming Replications.
That is how the brand new metrics are visualized.
For the total checklist of metrics, please consult with the VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability Set up, Improve, and Use Information on web page 10.
Primarily based on the replication and system well being metrics, VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.2 gives a set of 13 pre-built alerts with their symptom definitions and a system well being dashboard.
The alerts cowl the vast majority of doable points which may happen with the VMware Cloud Director Availability Cloud service, in addition to RPO violations or different replication issues.
Observe: Because of the totally different Cloud Supplier preferences and configurations, the alerts will not be robotically included in a coverage and are in a deactivated state. You will want to manually add the related ones to a coverage and activate them after Administration Pack set up.
The VCDA Websites Well being dashboard will be present in Dashboards beneath All > Cloud Director Availability and reveals data based mostly on the system well being metrics per VMware Cloud Director Availability occasion.
It visualizes the connection data that features the VMware Cloud Director Availability occasion and its replications and signifies all of the alerts per object, making it doable to view them straight.
Not all of the metrics are included by default, however you possibly can modify the dashboard, together with or excluding some metrics based mostly on what knowledge you wish to see.
VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.2 expands the metric assortment scope enabling the Cloud Suppliers to actively monitor the well being of their VMware Cloud Director Availability cases and their tenants’ replications state.
The pre-built assets akin to alerts, views, stories, and dashboards will be simply personalized to ship probably the most beneficial data wanted.
VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability Launch Notes
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