Updates for vRealize Operations Dashboards and Notifications in VMware Validated Design 4.3, 5.0.x, and 5.1

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Issue/Introduction

Because the versions of vRealize Operations Manager in VMware Validated Design 4.2, VMware Validated Design 4.3, and VMware Validated Design 5.0.x and 5.1 are different, after you upgrade VMware Validated Design, some out-of-the-box dashboards provide different metrics.

The newer releases of vRealize Operations Manager introduce new or update out-of-the-box dashboards, and have some metrics discontinued, disabled, or modified. You must also configure notifications of alerts on different objects.

Table 1: Versions of vRealize Operations Manager Supported in VMware Validated Design

VMware Validated Design Version	Supported vRealize Operations Manager Version
VMware Validated Design 4.2	vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.1
VMware Validated Design 4.3	vRealize Operations Manager 6.7
VMware Validated Design 5.0.x	vRealize Operations Manager 7.0
VMware Validated Design 5.1	vRealize Operations Manager 7.5

For details on configuring vRealize Operations Manager after a clean installation of VMware Validated Design, see the VMware Validated Design 4.3 Monitoring and Alerting documentation.

Environment

VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) 5.0.x
VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) 4.3.x

Resolution

Running the Upgrade Assessment Tool for vRealize Operations Manager

Before you upgrade to version 4.3, 5.0.x, or 5.1 of VMware Validated Design, run the Upgrade Assessment Tool for vRealize Operations Manager. The tool generates a report about the impact on your environment and recommends replacements so that you can evaluate and reduce this impact on alerts and dashboards.

Before you upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 6.7, run the Upgrade Assessment Tool 6.7. See VMware Knowledge Base article 53545.
Before you upgrade to vRealize Operations Manager 7.0, run the Upgrade Assessment Tool 7.0. See VMware Knowledge Base article 57283.
If you plan to upgrade vRealize Operations Manager from version 7.0 to version 7.5, you can skip running the Upgrade Assessment Tool. See the vRealize Operations 7.5 Release Notes.

Differences in the Monitoring Configuration between Version 4.2 and Version 4.3 of VMware Validated Design

Each version of VMware Validated Design has different configuration and metrics of the dashboards in vRealize Operations Manager. In certain cases, you must also modify the widget configuration of the SDDC Overview custom dashboard and certain notifications of SDDC alerts.

Table 2: Overview of the Changes between VMware Validated Design 4.2 and VMware Validated Design 4.3

Functional Area	Supported Functionality in VMware Validated Design 4.2	Supported Functionality in VMware Validated Design 4.3
SDDC Capacity and Utilization dashboards	Out-of-the-box Capacity Overview dashboards For configuration details, see SDDC Capacity Overview Dashboard.	Out-of-the-box Capacity and Utilization dashboards, Changed dashboards in the group, For configuration details, see SDDC Capacity and Utilization Overview Dashboards. For information on the changes in these dashboards, see the vRealize Operations Manager 6.7 Release Notes and product documentation.
SDDC Overview dashboard	For configuration details, see Configure a Dashboard that Provides an Overview of SDDC Operation.	New application group for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager that you must add to the SDDC Management custom group, Discontinued or changed metrics. The changes are mainly in capacity planning, badges, widgets, and raw metrics. For configuration details, see Configure a Dashboard That Provides an Overview of the SDDC Operation. For information on the configuration changes in the heatmap widgets of the dashboard, see Changes in the Configuration of the Heatmap Widgets in the SDDC Overview Dashboard.
Notifications of alerts on the main environment functionality	For configuration details, see Configure vRealize Operations Manager to Notify of SDDC Issues.	Discontinued or changed notifications. For configuration details, see Configure vRealize Operations Manager to Notify of SDDC Issues. For information on the changes in the list of notifications, see Changes in the Notifications of Important Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager.

Changes in the Configuration of the Heatmap Widgets in the SDDC Overview Dashboard

In VMware Validated Design 4.3, you must change the configuration of the heatmap widgets in the custom SDDC Overview dashboard.

Table 3: Changes in the Heatmap Widgets Configuration on the First Row of the SDDC Overview Dashboard

Widget Setting	Heatmap 1.1		Heatmap 1.2
	VMware Validated Design 4.2	VMware Validated Design 4.3	VMware Validated Design 4.2	VMware Validated Design 4.3
Title	Physical CPU Remaining	Physical CPU Time Remaining	Physical Memory Remaining	Physical Memory Time Remaining
Refresh Content	On	On	On	On
Refresh Interval	300 s	300 s	300 s	300 s
Name	Management Hosts	Management Hosts	Management Hosts	Management Hosts
Group by	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter
Then by	-	-	-	-
Focus on Groups	Selected	Selected	Selected	Selected
Mode	Instance	Instance	Instance	Instance
Object type	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Host System
Attribute type	CPU > Capacity Remaining (%)	Capacity Analytics Generated > CPU > Demand > Time Remaining (Day(s))	Memory > Capacity Remaining (%)	Capacity Analytics Generated > Memory > Demand > Time Remaining (Day(s))
Min Value (Color)	0 (red)	0 (red)	0 (red)	0 (red)
Max Value (Color)	25 (green)	1 (green)	25 (green)	1 (green)

Table 4: Changes in the Heatmap Widgets Configuration on the Second Row of the SDDC Overview Dashboard

Widget Setting	Heatmap 2.1		Heatmap 2.2
	VMware Validated Design 4.2	VMware Validated Design 4.3	VMware Validated Design 4.2	VMware Validated Design 4.3
Title	Physical Network I/O	Physical Disk Space Time Remaining	Physical Dropped Packets	Physical Dropped Packets
Refresh Content	On	On	On	On
Refresh Interval	300s	300s	300s	300s
Name	Management Hosts	Management Hosts	Management Hosts	Management Hosts
Group by	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter
Then by	-	-	-	-
Focus on Groups	Selected	Selected	Selected	Selected
Mode	Instance	Instance	Instance	Instance
Object type	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Host System
Attribute type	Network I/O > Demand (%)	Capacity Analytics Generated > Disk Space > Demand > Time Remaining (Day(s))	Network I/O > Packets Dropped	Network > Packets Dropped %
Min Value (Color)	80 (green)	0 (red)	0 (green)	0 (green)
Max Value (Color)	100 (red)	1 (green)	1 (red)	1 (red)

Table 5: Changes in the Heatmap Widgets Configuration on the Third Row of the SDDC Overview Dashboard

Widget Setting	Heatmap 3.4
	VMware Validated Design 4.2	VMware Validated Design 4.3
Title	Management VM Disk Free	Management VM Disk Space Time Remaining
Refresh Content	On	On
Refresh Interval	300s	300s
Name	Management VMs	Management VMs
Group by	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter
Then by	-	-
Focus on Groups	Selected	Selected
Mode	Instance	Instance
Object type	vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine	vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine
Attribute type	Disk Space > Capacity Remaining (%)	Capacity Analytics Generated > Disk Space > Time Remaining (Day(s))
Min Value (Color)	5 (red)	0 (red)
Max Value (Color)	20 (green)	1 (green)

Changes in the Notifications of Important Alerts in vRealize Operations Manager

In VMware Validated Design 4.3, you must configure notifications of new alerts and remove notifications of alerts that are no longer available.

Table 6: Changes in the Notifications of the Virtual Machine and Host Alerts in the SDDC

Object Type	Alert Definition	Available in VMware Validated Design 4.2	Available in VMware Validated Design 4.3
vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine	Virtual machine is projected to run out of disk space	Yes	No
	Virtual machine has CPU contention due to multi-vCPU scheduling issues (co-stop) caused by too many vCPUs	Yes	Yes
	Virtual machine has unexpected high CPU workload	Yes	No
	Virtual machine has unexpected high memory workload	Yes	No
	Virtual machine has disk I/O latency problem caused by snapshots	Yes	Yes
	Virtual Machine is running out of disk space	Yes	No
	Virtual machine has large disk snapshots	Yes	No
	Not enough resources for vSphere HA to start the virtual machine	Yes	Yes
	vSphere HA cannot perform a failover operation for the virtual machine	Yes	Yes
	One or more virtual machine guest file systems are running out of disk space.	No	Yes
	Virtual machine has CPU contention due to memory page swapping in the host	No	Yes
	Virtual machine has memory contention caused by swap wait and high disk read latency	No	Yes
	Virtual machine has unexpected high disk I/O workload	No	Yes
	Virtual machine has CPU contention due to multi-vCPU scheduling issues (co-stop) caused by snapshots	No	Yes
vCenter Adapter > Host System	Standalone host has CPU contention caused by overpopulation of virtual machines	Yes	Yes
	Standalone host has memory contention caused by overpopulation of virtual machines	Yes	Yes
vCenter Adapter > Cluster Compute Resource	Fully-automated DRS-enabled cluster has CPU contention caused by overpopulation of virtual machines	Yes	Yes
	Fully-automated DRS-enabled cluster has high CPU workload	Yes	Yes
	Fully-automated DRS-enabled cluster has memory contention caused by overpopulation of virtual machines	Yes	Yes
	Fully-automated DRS-enabled cluster has high memory workload and contention	Yes	Yes
	vSphere High Availability (HA) failover resources are insufficient	Yes	Yes

Table 7: Changes in the Notifications of the Network-Related Alerts in the SDDC

Object Type	Alert Definition	Available in VMware Validated Design 4.2	Available in VMware Validated Design 4.3
vCenter Adapter > vSphere Distributed Switch	Distributed Switch configuration is out of sync	Yes	Yes
vCenter Adapter > Host System	Host's NSX messaging infrastructure is reporting an issue	Yes	Yes
NSX-vSphere Adapter > NSX-vSphere Manager	Manager resource usage is high	Yes	Yes
	Manager API calls are failing	Yes	Yes
	VXLAN segment range has been exhausted	Yes	Yes
NSX-vSphere Adapter > NSX-vSphere Controller Cluster	Less than three controllers are active	Yes	Yes
NSX-vSphere Adapter > NSX-vSphere Edge	Edge resource usage is high	Yes	Yes
	High Availability is not configured correctly on the Edge	Yes	Yes
	Edge VM is not responding to health check	Yes	Yes
	One or more Load Balancer pool members are down	Yes	Yes

Table 8: Changes in the Notifications of the Storage Alerts in the SDDC

Object Type	Alert Definition	Available in VMware Validated Design 4.2	Available in VMware Validated Design 4.3
vCenter Adapter > Datastore	Datastore is running out of disk space	Yes	Yes
	Datastore is projected to run out of disk space	Yes	No
	Datastore has unexpected high Disk I/O workload	No	Yes
	Datastore has lost connectivity to a storage device	No	Yes
vSAN Adapter > vSAN Cluster	After one additional host failure, vSAN Cluster will not have enough resources to rebuild all objects	Yes	Yes
	vSAN cluster health checks are reporting issues	Yes	No
	vSAN Cluster Overall Health is Red	No	Yes
	vSAN Cluster flash read cache reservation is approaching capacity	Yes	Yes

Table 9: Changes in the Notifications of the vRealize Operations Manager Alerts in the SDDC

Object Type	Alert Definition	Available in VMware Validated Design 4.2	Available in VMware Validated Design 4.3
vRealize Operations Adapter > vRealize Operations Analytics	Number of Objects being monitored by this vRealize Operations Node exceeds the configured limit. Possible loss of data	Yes	Yes

Overview of the Changes in the Monitoring Configuration in VMware Validated Design 5.0.x

vRealize Operations Management Pack for Storage Devices 7.0 is not a continuation of the earlier versions of the management pack. No upgrade path from the adjacent version 6.0.5 to 7.0 of the management pack exists. Hence, providing guidance on the changes in the monitoring configuration in VMware Validated Design 5.0.x, for example, on the changes in the heatmap widgets in the custom SDDC Overview dashboard, is not applicable.

Overview of the Changes in the Monitoring Configuration in VMware Validated Design 5.1

vRealize Operations Manager 7.5 introduces new or updated out-of-the-box dashboards, and dashboards and widgets enhancements.

Table 10

Functional Area	Supported Functionality in VMware Validated Design 5.1
SDDC Capacity and Utilization dashboards	Out-of-the-box Capacity and Utilization dashboards. New dashboard for vSAN Stretched Clusters. For configuration details, see SDDC Capacity and Utilization Overview Dashboards. For information on the changes in these dashboards, see the vRealize Operations Manager 7.5 Release Notes and product documentation.
SDDC Overview dashboard	Changes in the configuration of the Health Chart widget For configuration details, see Configure a Dashboard That Provides an Overview of the SDDC Operation. For information on the configuration changes in the Health Chart, see Configure a Health Chart Widget in SDDC Overview Dashboard.
Notifications of alerts on the main environment functionality	Changes in the Site Recovery Manager notifications. For configuration details, see List of Notifications for vRealize Operations Manager. For information on the changes in the list of Site Recovery Manager notifications, see Changes in Site Recovery Notifications in vRealize Operations Manager.

Changes in the Configuration of the Health Chart Widget

Table 11: Configuration of the Health Chart Widget in the SDDC Overview Dashboard

Health Chart Widget Setting	Value
Configuration section
Title	Management Applications
Refresh Content	On
Refresh Interval	300 s
Self Provider	On
Order By	Value (Asc)
Pagination number	15
Metric	Health
Input Data section	All
Output Filter section	Basic > Function > SDDC Management

Changes in the Site Recovery Manager Notifications

Table 12: Changes in Site Recovery Notifications in the SDDC.

Object Type	Alert Definition	Available in VMware Validated Design 5.0	Available in VMware Validated Design 5.1
SrmAdapter > Protection Groups	Protection Group is Not Configured	Yes	No
	Protection Group is Not Configured Affecting the Risk for the System	No	Yes
	Protection Group is Not Configured Affecting the Health Status of the System	No	Yes
	Protection Group is Partially Recovered	Yes	No
	Protection Group Is Partially Recovered Affecting the Risk for the System	No	Yes
	Protection Group Is Partially Recovered Affecting the Health Status of the System	No	Yes
	Protection Group is Recovering	Yes	No
	Protection Group Is Recovering Affecting the Risk for the System	No	Yes
	Protection Group Is Recovering Affecting the Health Status of the System	No	Yes
	Protection Group is Testing	Yes	No
	Protection Group Is Testing Affecting the Risk for the System	No	Yes
	Protection Group Is Testing Affecting the Health Status of the System	No	Yes
Srm Adapter > Recovery Plans	Recovery Plan Has Errors	Yes	No
	Recovery Plan Has Errors Affecting the Risk for the System	No	Yes
	Recovery Plan Has Errors Affecting the Health Status of the System	No	Yes
	Recovery Plan Has Warnings	Yes	No
	Recovery Plan Has Warnings Affecting the Risk for the System	No	Yes
	Recovery Plan Has Warnings Affecting the Health Status of the System	No	Yes
Srm Adapter > SRM Site	Is Site Pair Not Connected	Yes	Yes
	Site Not Paired	Yes	Yes
	SRM Site Has Object(s) With Issues	Yes	No
	Srm Site Has Object(s) With Issues Affecting the Risk for the System	No	Yes
	Srm Site Has Object(s) With Issues Affecting the Health Status of the System	No	Yes