Using Workload Optimization to Improve Performance

Workload Optimization in focuses on intelligently balancing and optimizing workloads across your virtualized infrastructure. The goal is to ensure that resources are distributed efficiently to maintain optimal performance, prevent resource contention, and make the best use of available hardware resources.

Using Workload Optimization, you can rebalance virtual machines and storage across clusters, relieving demand on an overloaded individual cluster and maintaining or improving cluster performance. You can also set your automated rebalancing policies to emphasize VM consolidation, which potentially frees up hosts and reduces resource demand.

Workload Optimization further allows you to potentially automate a significant portion of your data center compute and storage optimization efforts. With properly defined policies determining the threshold at which resource contention automatically runs an action, a data center performs at optimum.

Starting with version 8.6, you can run workload optimization on a custom data center which has clusters aross multiple data centers within a single

vCenter Server

instance. The prequisite for this is that the hosts in the different clusters must be under the same network. This means that the port groups must be the same across the data centers. You can activate cluster level optimization across data center boundaries by enabling the setting in the business intent workspace.

vRealize Automation
Integration

When you add an instance to a

vRealize Automation

adapter or solution pack as well as to a

adapter instance that is connected to the

vRealize Automation

server, using

vRealize Automation

-managed resources,

VMware Aria Operations

automatically adds a custom data center for the

, using

vRealize Automation

-managed resources.

On the

VMware Aria Operations

side, to get the day2 chain configured, you must make the following initial configurations:

In vCenter Server,

Administration -> Solutions

and then add the VMware vSphere adapter instance for the vCenter Server that is configured as an endpoint in

vRealize Automation

Server.

In vCenter Server,

Administration -> Solutions

and then add the

vRealize Automation

adapter instance for the server that will appear in the

VMware Aria Operations

and

vRealize Automation

integration day2 chain.

VMware Aria Operations

can manage workload placement and optimization for the custom data centers that reside in

vRealize Automation

-managed clusters.

However,

VMware Aria Operations

is not permitted to set tag policies for the custom data center. (At the Workload Optimization screen, the Business Intent window is not operational for

vRealize Automation

custom data centers.) When rebalancing a

vRealize Automation

custom data center,

VMware Aria Operations

uses all applicable policies and placement principles from both systems:

vRealize Automation

and

VMware Aria Operations

. For complete information on creating and managing

vRealize Automation

custom data centers that are managed by