Monitoring Capabilities in the
VMware Cloud Foundation
System

The
VMware Cloud Foundation
system provides built-in capabilities to help you perform effective operations monitoring, troubleshooting, performance management, infrastructure capacity planning, and compliance monitoring and auditing.
You use the built-in monitoring capabilities for these typical scenarios.
Scenario
Examples
Are the systems online?
A host or other component shows a failed or unhealthy status.
Why did a storage drive fail?
Hardware-centric views spanning inventory, configuration, usage, and event history to provide for diagnosis and resolution.
Is the infrastructure meeting tenant service level agreements (SLAs)?
Analysis of system and device-level metrics to identify causes and resolutions.
At what future time will the systems get overloaded?
Trend analysis of detailed system and device-level metrics, with summarized periodic reporting.
What person performed which action and when?
History of secured user actions, with periodic reporting.
Workflow task history of actions performed in the system.