vRealize Operations key component architecture

In vRealize Operations 6.0, a new platform design was introduced to meet some of the required goals that VMware envisaged for the product. These included the following:

• The ability to treat all solutions equally, and to be able to offer management of performance, capacity, configuration, and compliance to both VMware and third-party solutions
• Provide a single platform that can scale to tens of thousands of objects and millions of metrics by scaling out with little reconfiguration or redesign required
• Support a monitoring solution that can be highly available, and support the loss of a node without impacting the ability to store or query information

With that new common platform, the design came a completely new architecture. 

The following diagram shows the major components of the vRealize Operations 6.6 architecture:

The components of the vRealize Operations 6.6 architecture are as follows:

• Watchdog
• The user interface
• Collector
• GemFire
• GemFire Locator
• Controller
• Analytics
• Persistence