VMware vCenter ETLs

You can use the VMware vCenter ETLs to collect data from the vCenter servers in your VMware environment. The collected data is used for analyzing and optimizing the capacity of your VMware infrastructure.

Use the following VMware vCenter ETLs for data collection:

• VMware - vCenter Extractor Service: This is a service ETL that runs continuously to collect data from vCenter servers. The collected data includes the metrics for Cloud capacity views and vSphere Virtualization views. The metrics are collected with the default vCenter statistics collection level. BMC recommends to use this ETL for daily data collection. For information about configuring and running the ETL, see VMware vCenter Extractor Service.
• VMware - vCenter and ESX Server History Extractor: This is a batch ETL that collects the historical data from vCenter and ESX servers. You must increase the statistics collection level for collecting historical data. You can use this ETL for data recovery. For information about configuring and running the ETL, see VMware - vCenter and ESX Server History Extractor.

Supported VMware environments

BMC Helix Continuous Optimization supports collecting data from the following VMware environments:

Available metrics and logging levels

The VMware ETLs collect the configuration and performance metrics of the virtual machine instances in your VMware environment. For information about the metrics, see Metrics collected by VMware ETLs.

For information on the metrics collected at various logging levels (data collection levels) in VMware, see  Data collection levels in VMware .