The VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) Management Suite provides comprehensive visibility and insights into the performance, capacity and health of your infrastructure. vRealize Operations Manager collects performance data from each object at every level of your virtual environment, from individual virtual machines and disk drives to entire clusters and data centres. It stores and analyses the data, and uses that analysis to provide real-time information about problems, or potential problems, anywhere in your virtual environment.

The Virtual LoadMaster (VLM) operates within the vROps architecture. vROps can instantiate a LoadMaster, monitor it and provide detailed statistics and information regarding its health within the vROps architecture.

With vROps, information can be gathered from the LoadMaster to form aggregated dashboard views combining the resource consumption data that is already natively available, along with statistics relevant to how each VM is performing in the context of the applications that they serve. The LoadMaster’s proximity to virtual application server instances, and its role as an intermediary connection point between clients and VMs, puts it in an ideal location to provide this data to vROps for dashboard and other information rendering.

Document Purpose

The purpose of this document is to describe the various features and functionality that can be used within the vROps Manager relating to the LoadMaster. For further information on vROps in general, refer to the VMware documentation.

This document relates to vROps version 6 and above.