Why would an administrator want to import data from other monitoring systems or data sources into vRealize Operations, especially when the data for those systems is already being managed by an existing monitoring solution? This is a fair question. The obvious advantage is to have all the data in one place, accessible via a single pane of glass. The real power of vRealize Operations is in how it handles relationships, and the benefits that this provides to the administrators out there.
Say we have installed vRealize Operations and we are successfully importing vSphere data and providing various types of useful information and reports. When an incident ticket is created and reports that there is a performance problem in a VM or a number of VMs, we can look at that VM in vRealize Operations and see what cluster it belongs to, what host it is currently sitting...