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VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise Installation and Administration Guide
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vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisemessaging—Themessagebus(ActiveMQ)passesmetric
informationbetweenvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecomponents.
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseusestwodatastoragesolutions.Arelationaldatabase(Oracleor
MicrosoftSQLServer)storesconfigurationandstatedata.Aproprietaryhighperformancefilesystembased
repository(FSDB)storesthecollected
rawmetrics.Figure 11depictsvCenterOperationsManager
Enterprise’slogicalarchitecture.
Figure 1-1. vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Architecture
TheinstallationscriptinstallsallvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecomponents—server(including
messaging),collector,andanalytics—inthesamefolderstructure.ItalsoinstallsseveralvCenterOperations
ManagerEnterprisesystemtools.