As we are spinning up the proof of concept for running an enterprise level monitoring tool in our environment. I’m going to post about some of the findings & information here. This post will cover the Proof of Concept (PoC) design phase. As this is a PoC, we aren’t going to create a new VLAN for the analytics cluster. Instead we’re going to spin it up in the same VLAN that the vCenter servers reside, with a remote collector sitting within the VLAN that houses storage management devices:
For a full deployment the tool would sit in it’s own monitoring VLAN with the appropriate firewall rules to allow traffic between remote collectors and the analytics cluster:
