Infrastructure Observability supports integration with VMware environments. It uses a local collector that communicates to vCenter using a read-only privilege. The collector sends the data back to Observability through the Secure Connect Gateway. 

Besides viewing VMs in the Virtual Machines tabs detailed earlier in this document, users can search to find a VM and access the Virtual Machines Details page.

The search results immediately provide some initial information about the VM including name, operating system, and IP address. Selecting “View All Results” provides additional details including vCenter, ESXi, Datacenter, and ESXi Cluster.

The search feature will find the following VM-related properties:

• VM name
• vCenter
• ESXi Server
• ESXi Cluster
• Datacenter

Selecting the VM name hyperlink directs the user to the Virtual Machine Details page.

The top of the VMware Details page contains various properties and attributes for the VM. It includes capacity information to understand the amount of storage allocated and used by the VM as well as vCenter and ESXi cluster information to understand where the VM resides. The downward pointing carat in the upper right of the window will minimize this section of the UI.

The bottom half of the page is dedicated to performance and storage path information. The left side of the window displays three 24-hour charts for the following key performance metrics: CPU Readiness (%), Active Memory (%), and Storage Latency (ms). Performance anomalies are identified in any of the charts as shaded blue areas. Observability identifies performance impacts on the storage latency chart with pink shading. There is also a 24-hour chart that identifies configuration changes. Selecting a box along the horizontal axis opens a window with details of the configuration change. Selecting a point in the performance charts displays a window showing the values of the historic seasonality and actual value at the selected time.

The right side of the window has three tabs: End to End Map, Storage Paths, and Configuration Changes.

End to End Map (shown above) – This tab is an interactive end-to-end map of the following items:

• Virtual machine
• ESXi Server
• ESXi Cluster
• Datastore
• Network
• Storage Object (LUN, volume, or storage group)
• Storage System

Key performance metrics are displayed for the selected items in the map. By default, the latest value is displayed for each metric. However, if the user selects a point in time in the VM performance charts on the left, this view is updated to show the corresponding values at the selected time. Users can select a time of interest in the VM performance charts and then select various objects in the data path to view their corresponding performance metrics.

Storage Paths – This tab maps each datastore to the storage object (LUN, volume, or storage group) on each system. This information allows users to map different datastores to different storage objects. If a performance impact is selected in the performance charts, the impacted components are highlighted with a pink square.

Configuration Changes – This tab provides a summary of VM-related and infrastructure-related configuration changes over that last 24-hour time period.

Selecting the number in the Configuration Changes view opens a window that displays details about the configuration change or changes. This allows the user to correlate configuration changes in the environment with potential performance impacts.