Announcing all-new VxRail Management Pack for vRealize Operations
Now adding VxRail awareness to your vRealize Operations
January 22, 2020
As the new year rolls in, VxRail team is now slowly warming up to it. Right as we settle back in after holiday festivities, we’re onto another release announcement. This time, it’s an entirely new software tool: VxRail Management Pack for vRealize Operations.
For those not familiar with what vRealize Operations, it’s VMware’s operations management software tool that provides its customers the ability to maintain and tune their virtual application infrastructure with the aid of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It connects to the vCenter Server and collects metrics, events, configurations, and logs about the vSAN clusters and virtual workloads running on them. vRealize Operations also understands the topology and object relationships of the virtual application infrastructure. With all these features, it is capable of driving intelligent remediation, ensuring configuration compliance, monitoring capacity and cost optimization, and maintaining performance optimization. It’s an outcome-based tool designed to self-drive according to user-defined intents powered by its AI/ML engine.
The VxRail Management Pack is an additional free-of-charge software pack that can be installed onto vRealize Operations to provide VxRail cluster awareness. Without this Management Pack, vRealize Operations can still detect vSAN clusters but cannot discern that they are VxRail clusters. The Management Pack consists of an adapter that collects 65 distinct VxRail events, analytics logic specific to VxRail, and three custom dashboards. These VxRail events are translated into VxRail alerts on vRealize Operations so that users have helpful information to understand health issues along with recommended course of resolution. With custom dashboards, users can easily go to VxRail-specific views to troubleshoot issues and make use of existing vRealize Operations capabilities in the context of VxRail clusters.
The VxRail Management Pack is not for every VxRail user because it requires a vRealize Operations Advanced or Enterprise license. For enterprise customers or customers who have already invested in VMware’s vRealize Operations suite, it can be an easy add-on to help manage your VxRail clusters.
To download the VxRail Management Pack, go to VMware Solution Exchange: https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/.
Author: Daniel Chiu, Dell EMC VxRail Technical Marketing