Virtualization and Cloud Solution Systems Capabilities

The following table lists the capabilities of VDX Analytics when it is integrated with virtualization and cloud solution tools.

Table 8:Virtualization and Cloud Solution Tools Details

Capability Details

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Retrieve objects (including all raw property information)

Retrieves the following objects:

Auto Scaling Group

Availability Zone

Cloud Formation Stack

DB Cluster

DB Instance

EC2 Host

EC2 Instance

EC2 Volume

Elastic Beanstalk Application

Elastic Beanstalk Application Environment

Elastic Classic Load Balancer

Elastic Application Load Balancer

Elastic Load Balancing Target Group

Can be extended with Lambda functions, CloudTrail, Resource Groups, and Route 53 objects.

Retrieve health states

Retrieves health states of all the above objects.

Retrieve object relationships

Retrieves the following relationships:

Availability Zone contains Objects (DB Clusters, DB Instances, EC2 Hosts EC2 Volumes, Load balancers)

Auto scaling group contains Load balancers, EC2 Instances hosts EC2 Volumes

Elastic Beanstalk Application Environment contains Elastic Beanstalk Application

DB Cluster contains DB instances

EC2 Host contains EC2 instances

Elastic Classic Load balancer contains instances

Resource Groups contain all above objects

Retrieve alerts and alarms

Retrieves alerts from CloudWatch metric alarms.

 Azure

Retrieve objects (including all raw property information)

Retrieves virtual machines, virtual machines ARM, sites and databases.

Retrieve health states

Retrieves health states based on the following:

An online database is Healthy; an offline database is Critical

A running web site is Healthy; a web site that is not running is Critical

A VM Powerstate of Starting or Running is Healthy; all other Powerstates are Critical

 Azure Monitor (Application Insights)

Retrieve objects (including all raw property information)

Retrieves all configurations (relationships to Subscriptions).

Within a tenant, per subscription or all subscriptions are converted to groups with no states.

Retrieve health states

Retrieves all resource groups, (shown as groups in VDX Analytics), such as virtual machines, storage accounts, virtual networks, web applications, databases and database servers, with their health states.

Retrieve object relationships

Retrieves all resource components with their health states (for example, application insight, application, virtual machine, or process).

Retrieve alerts and alarms

Retrieves all alerts that relate to resources.

 VMware vCenter

Retrieve objects (including all raw property information)

Retrieves host systems and virtual machines.

Retrieve health states

Retrieves health states of objects based on overall status as follows:

gray: unknown

green: healthy

yellow: warning

red: critical

Retrieve object relationships

Retrieves relationships between host systems and virtual machines.

Retrieve alerts and alarms

Retrieves active alarms from hosts and virtual machines and translates them into alerts.

Act on Alarms and Alerts

Acknowledge alarms.