Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation: vMotion events missing from vMotion dashboard

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

vMotion events reported in the vMotion dashboard under Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation do not match the vMotion tasks in vCenter. 

Environment

Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation

Cause

This is caused by the Operations for Logs events missing required fields for Operations to report on the vMotion event. 

vmw_cluster 
vmw_datacenter
vmw_host
vmw_object_id
vmw_vcenter
vmw_vcenter_id
vmw_vr_ops_id

Resolution

Operations for logs choose “Enabled Launch in Context" and reconfigure the ESXi hosts. 

Perform the following to make these changes.  

Change 1:

• From the Operations for Logs UI click on Integrations → VMware Aria Operations. 
• Select  "Enable Launch in Context"
• Enter Credentials
• Chose Save

Change 2:

• From the Operations for Logs UI click on Integrations → vSphere
• Edit your vCenter
• Click View Details next to “Manage ESXi hosts configuration” 
• Select all hosts
• Choose Configure