VMWare Infrastructure Overview
VMware Infrastructure consist of Hardware and Software components, the following are considered to be the main components of the VMware Infrastructure:
- vCenter Server Appliance
- Hosts
- Virtual Machines
VSM and VMWare System Health
VSM collects and stores configuration, capacity and availability information relating to the consumption of all essential resources information related to VMware Infrastructure System (vCenter , ESXI Hosts and Virtual machines).It stores this information for reporting, trending and analytical purposes.
If any changes made to the system,the dashboard will automatically reconfigure itself to measure and display critical capacity data based on the current configuration
The purpose of the dashboards is three-fold:
- To enable IT teams to proactively identify potential issues and prevent outages.
- To provide a real time view of overall VMware Environment health at a glance without having to rely on end-users reporting problems.
- In the event of a service-impacting incident to significantly reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and therefore to reduce the impact on business operations by quickly identifying the root cause.
vCenter System Information
vCenter Server is the centralized management utility for VMware, and is used to manage virtual machines, multiple ESXi hosts, and all dependent components from a single centralized location.
VSM monitors vCenter and display information related to the vCenter , this includes ( Total number of managed Virtual machines by vCenter ,ESXi Hosts and Virtual machines).
ESXi Hosts
ESXi is the hypervisor on which you run virtual machines as a set of configuration and disk files that together perform all the functions of a physical machine.
VSM display information about ESXi this includes ( Data Center ,ESXi Version , Connection Status and number of managed virtual machines per host).
IT Team can display information about specific Host if needed.
Virtual Machines (VMs)
VSM monitors virtual machines and display information about the VMs (Managing ESXi Host , Data Center, OS ,IP Address and Power status.
