Cloud Account Information - vSphere Account Options
vSphere
Account OptionsTo begin monitoring your environment
with
VMware Aria
Operations
, you configure the
vSphere
solution. The solution
includes the vCenter Server
cloud account that collects data from the
target vCenter Server
instances. Where You Find the Solution - vSphere
vSphere
From the left menu, click tab. Click
Add Account
, and then select the
vCenter
card. Account Information - vSphere Account Options
vSphere
Account Options Configure and modify cloud accounts on the Account
Information page.
Option
| Description
|
|---|---|
Advanced Settings
| Provides options related to designating specific collectors to manage this
cloud account, managing object discovery and change events. |
Auto Discovery
| Determines whether new objects added to the
monitored system are discovered and added to VMware Aria
Operations after the initial
configuration of the cloud account.
|
Process Change Events
| Determines whether
the cloud account uses an event collector to collect and process
the events generated in the vCenter Server instance.
|
Activate Collecting vSphere Distributed
Switch Activate Collecting Virtual Machine Folder Activate Collecting vSphere Distributed
Port Group | When set to false,
reduces the collected data set by omitting collection of the associated
category.
|
Exclude Virtual Machines from Capacity
Calculations
| When set to true, reduces the collected data
set by omitting collection of the associated category.
|
Maximum Number Of Virtual Machines Collected
| Reduces the collected
data set by limiting the number of virtual machine collections.
To omit data on virtual machines and have
VMware Aria
Operations collect only host data, set the value to
zero. |
Provide data to vSphere
Predictive DRS | vSphere Predictive DRS
proactively load balances a vCenter Server cluster to accommodate
predictable patterns in the cluster workload. VMware Aria
Operations monitors virtual
machines running in a vCenter Server, analyzes longer-term
historical data, and provides forecast data about predictable
patterns of resource usage to Predictive DRS. Based on these
predictable patterns, Predictive DRS moves to balance resource
usage among virtual machines. Predictive DRS must also
be activated for the Compute Clusters managed by the vCenter
Server instances monitored by VMware Aria
Operations . Refer to the vSphere Resource
Management Guide for details on activating Predictive
DRS on a per Compute Cluster basis. When set to true,
designates VMware Aria
Operations as a predictive data provider, and sends
predicative data to the vCenter Server. You can only register a
single active Predictive DRS data provider with a vCenter Server
at a time. |
Activate Actions | Activating this option helps in triggering the actions that are related
to vCenter. |
Cloud Type
| Provides an ability to identify the type of vCenter that is used in
VMware Aria
Operations . By default, the cloud type is
set to Private Cloud.The cloud types available are: Azure VMware
Solution , Google Cloud VMware Engine , Hosted
Private Cloud, Private Cloud, VMware Cloud on
AWS , and VMware Cloud on Dell EMC . |
vCenter ID | A globally unique identifier associated with the vCenter Server instance. |
Deactivate collecting Guest File Systems with names containing | Provide comma separated list of strings. If these strings are found in
any guest files system mount point name, that guest file system will
not be collected. |
Dynamic Thresholding | This setting is activated by default. |
You can find the
vSphere
Hardening Guides at http://www.vmware.com/security/hardening-guides.html. Click
Save
Settings
to finish configuration of the solution.