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VMware vCloud

Commercial

This ZenPack is developed and supported by Zenoss Inc. Commercial ZenPacks are available to Zenoss commercial customers only. Contact Zenoss to request more information regarding this or any other ZenPacks. Click here to view all available Zenoss Commercial ZenPacks.

Organization:

Zenoss, Inc.

Name:

ZenPacks.zenoss.vCloud

Applications Monitored:

VMware vCloud (1.0, 1.5, 5.1, 5.5)

VMware vCloud ZenPack

The VMware vCloud ZenPack enables Resource Manager to use VMware's Cloud Director native management API to extend in-depth availability, performance, and event monitoring into the vCloud platform.

Support

This ZenPack is included with commercial versions of Zenoss and enterprise support for this ZenPack is provided to Zenoss customers with an active subscription.

Releases

Version 1.4.9- Download: Released on 2014/08/15: Compatible with Zenoss Resource Manager 4.1.x, Zenoss Resource Manager 4.2.x

Background

The ZenPacks.zenoss.vCloud ZenPack monitors virtual infrastructure services that are managed by VMware vCloud Suite platforms.

VMware vCloud acts as a cloud layer on top of one or more vSphere virtual infrastructures. It allows for easy deployment of public or private clouds with required concepts, such as a self-service portal with built-in multi-tenancy. vCloud enables you to allocate your vSphere resources as desired to provide abstracted compute (CPU and memory) and storage resources to internal or external customers.

You can find more information about cloud computing and vCloud at the VMware site:

http://www.vmware.com

This ZenPack uses VMware's Cloud Director native management API to extend in-depth availability and performance monitoring into the vCloud platform. If you provide the vCloud service, you can use the vCloud administrator perspective to gain a complete view of the entire cloud architecture. Or, as a vCloud consumer, you can use the user perspective to obtain organization-specific information.

Adding a Cell

A cell (also known as the cloud director or self-service portal) is the service to which Zenoss platform connects to perform all discovery and monitoring. Follow these steps to use Zenoss platform to discover the cloud and all available details:

  1. From the Zenoss platform user interface, select Infrastructure > Devices. The device list appears.
  2. Click the Add Device menu, and then select Add vCloud Cell. The Add vCloud Cell dialog appears. Add vCloud Cell
  3. Enter information in the dialog to add the vCloud cell:
    • Hostname or IP Address - Enter the host name or IP address for the cell.
    • Port # - Enter the cell port number.
    • Username - Enter the user name, in the form username@organization. For example, if you are the cell administrator, enter administrator@system. Alternatively, if you user name is Joe and you are part of the ACME organization, enter Joe@ACME.
    • Password - Enter the password for username.
  4. Click Add. A dialog appears with the option to view the job log of the cell being discovered. Select the option to view the job log and monitor the job's completion.

Monitoring

The zenvcloud daemon uses the VMware Cloud Director API to perform a range of monitoring tasks. After your cell is added to Zenoss platform, monitoring begins automatically.

Performance

Zenoss platform collects these metrics directly from the cell for each vDC, irrespective of whether you have administrator or user credentials:

  • CPU Limit, Allocated and Used
  • Memory Limit, Allocated and Used
  • Storage Limit, Allocated and Used

Zenoss platform collects these metrics directly from the cell for each Provider vDC if you have administrator credentials:

  • CPU Capacity, Allocation and Free
  • Memory Capacity, Allocation and Free
  • Storage Capacity, Allocation and Free

Changes

1.4.9
  • Allow component monitoring to be disabled and enabled. (ZEN-13166)
1.4.8
  • Fix modeling vCloud 5.1 using tenant credentials. (ZEN-10762)
  • Fix "dnd" error in web interface. (ZEN-10761)
1.4.7
  • Fix vCloud VM service impact issue introduced in 1.4.5.
1.4.6
  • Remove DynamicView and ZenVMware ZenPack requirements.
1.4.5
  • Support new MAC address index for faster modeling.
1.4.4
  • Fix error that could appear in device overview "Links" area.
1.4.3
  • Add support for vCloud 1.5 and 5.1.

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