Integrating with VMware vCloud Director

VMware vCloud Director, now called vCloud Director for Service Providers, is a software solution that enables enterprises to build secure and multi-tenant private clouds by pooling infrastructure resources into virtual Data Centers (vDC). VMware vCloud Director also enables you to use web-based portals and programmatic interfaces as fully automated and catalog-based services.

Note

To collect data from 9.x and 10.x versions of VMware Cloud Director, use the VMware-Cloud-Director-9-x-10-x-Extractor. This ETL collects vCloud infrastructure and services data from the vCloud Director.

Supported VMware vCloud Director environments

BMC Helix Capacity Optimization supports collecting data from the following VMware vCloud Director environments:

Configuring the integration of ETL tasks

The following ETLs must be configured in the sequence they are listed to successfully integrate with VMware vCloud Director. These ETLs collect data from the vCloud Director, and must be individually configured.

  1. VMware-vCloud-Infrastructure-extractor - This ETL extracts vCloud infrastructure data from the vCloud Director.
  2. VMWare - vCloud Services extractor - This ETL extracts vCloud services data from the vCloud Director.

Tip

Set the frequency of the Infrastructure extractor ETL to run once every hour, and the Services extractor ETL to run once every day.

 

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