vRealize Operations Manager is often referred to as VMware's monitoring solution. But it provides way more than just simple resource monitoring. Not only that it has full capacity management capabilities, it is also is a learning system, which can self-adapt to a changing environment. This makes it the perfect solution for the SDDC, since it can automatically pick up changes in an environment. Additionally it can also learn the standard behavior of VMs and services. This enables the tool to recognize a change in the behavior and trigger an alert based on that behavior.
Traditional capacity management tools might only be able to work with thresholds. While this sounds perfectly acceptable in the first place, it can introduce issues in a dynamic environment such as the SDDC. Since the values constantly change it will be very hard to set valid thresholds for a capacity management tool to kick in. Also, a threshold needs to be well thought through, given that the supply...