How to find the exact number of objects that the 'vROps' nodes have and what the object counts represent
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How to find the exact number of objects that the 'vROps' nodes have and what the object counts represent

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Article ID: 406093

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Products

VCF Operations VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

The purpose of this article is how to find the total number of objects that have been collected from your environment and explain what the various counts represent.

  • You want to know how to find the exact number of objects that the vROps (Aria Operations / VCF Operations) nodes have
  • You may want to monitor objects for any sizing requirements in the cluster per the VMware Aria Operations 8.18 Sizing Guidelines
  • You want to know the difference between objects as represented in various locations in the product:
    • objects being collected
    • objects in process
    • objects configured / resources configured

Environment

Aria Operations 8.x
VCF Operations 9.x

Resolution

NOTE: An object represents a basic entity in Aria Operations that is characterized by properties and metrics that are collected from adapter data sources. A few examples of objects include a virtual machine, a host, a datastore for a VMware vCenter adapter, a storage switch port for a storage devices adapter, an Exchange server, or a Microsoft SQL Server.  Sizing is affected by both number of objects and metrics, but most frequently the number of objects is the usual culprit. This is why the purpose of this article is to focus just on objects and how to find the total number that has been collected from your environment.

For a complete sizing analysis, you should follow the VMware Aria Operations 8.18 Sizing Guidelines

  • The first place you can look is in the System Audit report which can be used to audit the objects, metrics, applications, and custom groups in your environment.
    • From the left menu, click Administration > Control Panel, and then click the Audit tile. Then click the System Audit tab. Within here you view the object counts, download and review the report.
    • The object values can be used to properly size the application based on the results of the Operations Sizing Tool.

  • The second place is Administration > Control Panel, and then click the Cluster Management tile.
    • Check the Objects Being Collected column

  • The third place is similar to the above but in the Admin UI.
    • Once logged into https://<operations_ip_or_fqdn>/admin, check under the System Status page and Objects Being Collected

  • The fourth place is within Dashboards > VMware Aria Operations:
    • Self Cluster Statistics dashboard, check Objects within the Top Processing Info widget
    • Self Performance Details dashboard, click a node within the Nodes widget and check Objects under the Analytics Data Processing widget. This can only be used to check one node at a time.
    • Self Services Summary dashboard, check the Analytics widget to see all nodes and objects data

  • The 5th place is to use the Enhanced Search at the top of the page to search for the individual cluster node by hostname or by cluster
    • In the search results, choose the individual node under vRealize Operations Node
    • If you searched "cluster", choose the entry under vRealize Operations Cluster
    • Click the Metrics tab and within the list, double click on Number of primary Objects metric from the list
    • This can be useful to see object count over time by using the Date Controls (calendar icon) at the top


What do the object counts represent?

  • objects being collected = the sum of all objects being collected by the adapters currently running on the node. You can see this in the Cluster Management page on a per node, per adapter basis
  • objects in process = total environment objects that the node currently monitors, usually on a 5 minute collection cycle.
  • objects configured / resources configured = this comes from the System Audit Report for total current objects and objects previously added into the system. This can include both collecting and not collecting objects

It's suggested to always take the highest number (typically resources configured) as this will better align with what is actually in the application database that contributes to the overall sizing and performance of the cluster.

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