Intelligent monitoring

vSAN environment monitoring is critical for a successful deployment. We have to follow the following monitoring practices:

• General monitoring practices
• vSAN Health Check plugin
• vSAN Observer
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager Monitoring
• Monitoring design

General monitoring practices

vSAN supports monitoring datastores through the VMware vSphere Web Client, the HTML 5 client, and the vSAN Management API. The vSphere Web Client monitors different objects, like clusters and datastores.

Without effective control over the infrastructure, a VM or ESXi host sprawl can quickly diminish the return of investment from virtualization. Areas for improvement include assessing workloads to determine performance...