Hi,
I and I know of others, who would like to see more exhaustive auditing of events added into VMAN. Specifically, whenever user generated events occur. More specifically changes to either vCenter or to VMs within a vCenter instance. Events such as adding drives to a VM, increasing hard drive size, added memory, added CPU's, changes to VM networks, etc. Same for vCenter as well, such as changes to host configurations, changes to datastores, networks, etc.
VMAN has come along way, but for any of us in larger enterprise environments with more than a couple of administrators with various levels of access to a virtualized environment, strong auditing is a requirement. Truthfully I am surprised this is not a more sought after request (requirement?).
These events are available to the likes of vLogInsight, so the data is there. It just needs rules to parse the events and extrapolate into an easily readable format. But it is important to have the information consolidated within the same framework that is morning the rest of the environment. Unfortunately right now I find myself having to jump between VMAN, vLogInsight and vRealize to get that holistic environmental view. This is cumbersome and time consuming.
We are 85% VMware (24 hosts, 600 VMs) but our Hyper-V footprint is growing (12 hosts, 130 VMs). Having a centralized solution for all monitoring is important to us, as I am sure it is to others as well.
