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Table Of Contents
- vCloud Suite Architecture Overview and Use Cases
- Contents
- About this book
- Introduction to vCloud Suite
- Architecture Overview
- Conceptual Design of a vCloud Suite Environment
- vCloud Suite Components in the Management Cluster
- Software-Defined Data Center Core Infrastructure
- Delivering an Infrastructure Service
- Delivering Platform as a Service
- Deploying vCloud Suite
- Install vCloud Suite Components
- Update vCloud Suite Components
- External Dependencies for Deploying vCloud Suite
- System Requirements of vCloud Suite Components
- Security Considerations
- Licensing
- vCloud Suite Licensing Model
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Web Client
- Activating vCloud Suite Components in the vSphere Client
- Add the vCloud Suite License by Using the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vSphere in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCenter Operations Management Suite in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License to vCloud Networking and Security in the vSphere Client
- Assign the vCloud Suite License Key to vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- Activating vCloud Suite Components by Using Their Own Licensing Interfaces
- Monitoring License Usage for vCloud Suite
- vCloud Suite Use Cases
- Index
Monitoring as an Element of vCloud Suite Core Infrastructure
Monitoring is a required element of a software-defined data center. The monitoring element provides
capabilities for performance and capacity management of related infrastructure components, including
requirements, specifications, management, and their relationships.
VMware monitoring components in vCenter Operations Manager Suite include the following products:
Table 2‑1. Monitoring products in vCloud Suite
Monitoring component Description
vCenter Operations Manager Provides comprehensive visibility and insights into the
performance, capacity and health of your infrastructure.
vCenter Infrastructure Navigator Automatically discovers application services, visualizes
relationships and maps dependencies of applications on
virtualized compute, storage and network resources.
vCenter Hyperic Monitors application health and is fundamental to the
operation of VMware AppHA.
A subset of the products can be deployed without damaging the integrity of the solution.
vCenter Operations Manager is distributed as virtual appliance that you can deploy on ESXi hosts. You
need to configure the virtual appliance and register it with a vCenter Server system. For an in-depth
discussion of vCenter Operations Manager and related products, see
https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vmware-vcops-suite-pubs.html.
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