Management Pack for Microsoft Azure

The Blue Medora VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Microsoft Azure is an embedded adapter for vRealize Operations (vROps), collecting performance data from your Azure Compute and SQL environments and providing predictive analysis and real-time information about problems in your cloud infrastructure—all within the vRealize Operations user interface.

How the Management Pack Collects Data

During each data collection cycle, the Management Pack queries the Azure REST API and opens an Azure JDBC connection (necessary for query-related metrics only) to obtain data regarding Azure resources.

Notable Features

The Management Pack harnesses powerful vRealize Operations features such as:

  • 4 comprehensive monitoring dashboards, including:
    • Microsoft Azure Overview
    • Microsoft Azure SQL Database Analysis
    • Microsoft Azure SQL Query Analysis
    • Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Analysis
  • 200+ collected metrics for Azure resources
  • Key performance metrics such as average CPU usage, DTU consumption, concurrent workers, concurrent sessions, and in-memory OLTP storage
  • 20+ detailed alerts and recommendations
  • vRealize Calculated Storage, CPU, DTU, eDTU, and DWU capacity definitions for Microsoft Azure resources

Release Notes

VersionRelease DateDescription
2.0.0.20191030.195558 This is the first release to support vROps 7.x and 8.x and exclude support for vROps 6.x
1.3.2.20190430.191911 

This release incoporates a number of bug fixes and optimizations, including:

  • Reduced the number of cases where collection can fail unexpectedly
1.3.0.20180807.133614August 24, 2018
1.2.0.20180413.195032April 20, 2018
  • Updated for vROps 6.7 compatibility (For information about general vROps 6.7 impact on our management packs, see our 6.7 Support Knowledge Article.)

  • Changed default metrics shown on dashboards for VMware objects

  • Ensured the following metrics are being collected: blocked_by_firewall, cpu_usage, data_io, dwu_consumption, dwu_used, failed_connections, successful_connections
  • Incorporated the following changes from previous LA releases:

    • Replaced a deprecated API call that Microsoft will be phasing out

    • Converts beginTime and endTime to UTC for every call and changes format to "Z" at the end instead of "+0000" in order to conform with the new Azure requirements

6.3.10100016September 19, 2017

Updated the SSL certificate to include the Baltimore CyberTrust root certificate

6.3.10100014May 5, 2017

Initial Release

Known Issues / Limitations

The following known issues/limitations exist for the currently-released version of the Management Pack:


See also:

System Requirements (Microsoft Azure)

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