Category «vmware»

Highly available vROPS 6.7 – two site deployment

In my last post I covered vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) components and its architecture. Now I will focus more on real world scenario and present deployment options for two datacenters – multi availability zones deployment. Requirements: Design must cover two datacenters. Solution must be highly available and perform data gathering and analytics even when one component …

vRealize Operations Manager Architecture

vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) is well known monitoring tool that provides recommendations, alerts, reports, and dashboards to display how the environment is performing. In this post I will not go into features, nor operational part of this solution, but rather focus on its components and architecture. It is designed to be highly scalable, built upon Gemfire cluster …

Highly available VCSA & PSC 6.5 for two sites

In this article I will go through design options for vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller (PSC) for two-site deployment. I made some assumptions to narrow number of options for given requirements. Assumptions: Greenfield deployment, I will not take into consideration any migration scenarios No vSphere Storage Metro Cluster/Stretched Cluster VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus licence …