Remote collectors can be deployed to peer data centers which act as pollers to collect data that can be centrally viewed via our vROps cluster.
Prerequisites
- You should have a working master and data mode before you deploy remote collectors.
- Read vRealize Operations Sizing Guidelines
- Ensure that you have read the vROps Sizing Guide prior to expanding your vRops cluster. Input all your existing vCenter environment into this one and also ensure the projected growth is as well accounted for.
If you are going to add a remote collector node, make sure it is the same size as the existing nodes. A quick check in the vSphere client will help you see how the existing nodes are sized. Try not to mix and match your node sizes or versions in a cluster as this go unsupported.
We will download the same OVA version we have on the master and data nodes and deploy the OVA as usual. During the deployment, we will just need to pick the size of the deployment and ignore the below configuration chart.
Deploying a remote collector node to the vRops cluster
Open https://fqdn of the second node in the browser and select expand an existing installation.
Click Next to continue
First, we will add the second node as a data node, and once successful will get the option to enable HA and configure replica.
Provide the following info
- Node name – vrops-2.ash.local
- Node type – remote collector
- Under the cluster information, provide the master vRops node IP and Click validate
Here we will provide the admin password for our first node or master node
Click Finish
The cluster expansion process with take some time
Click Finish adding the new remote collector
Click OK and proceed
All our nodes and running and our cluster is healthy.
