Cloud Zones in
VMware Aria Operations

Cloud zones help you to group a set of compute resources and assign capability tags to the zone. The cloud zone is based on accounts/regions, so you must have at least one cloud account configured before you can create a cloud zone. Cloud zones define where and how blueprints configure deployments. You can have one or many cloud zones assigned to each project based on priority and limits.

How Cloud Zones Work

After you integrate
vRealize Automation
with
VMware Aria Operations
, you can retrieve cloud zones into
VMware Aria Operations
. The
Cloud Zones
option is hidden from the user until the integration with
vRealize Automation
is activated from the integration page under
Administration
>
Management
.
The Cloud Zones option is activated in
VMware Aria Operations
, only if the following conditions are met.
  • vRealize Automation
    instance is integrated successfully in
    VMware Aria Operations
    Administration
    >
    Management
    >
    Integrations
    .
  • vRealize Automation
    objects are discovered in
    VMware Aria Operations
    .
  • vRealize Automation
    accounts and Aria Operations vCenter Cloud Accounts are synchronized.
All the Cloud Zone objects which are existing in
vRealize Automation
environment, are discovered in
VMware Aria Operations
. Cloud zones, whose dependent clusters are not discovered in
VMware Aria Operations
, are not represented in Capacity Overview, Reclaim, and Workload Optimization pages.