VMware vRealize Suite is a purpose-built management solution for the heterogeneous data center and the hybrid cloud. It delivers and manages infrastructure and applications to increase the business agility while maintaining IT control. It provides the most comprehensive management stack for private and public clouds, multiple hypervisors, and physical infrastructure.
It consists of the following solutions:
- vRealize Automation (and vRealize Orchestrator)
- vRealize Operations
- vRealize Log Insight
To automate installation, configuration, upgrade, patch, configuration management, drift remediation and health from within a single pane of glass, we will use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
The below diagram shows technological capabilities and organizational constructs.
In the lab environment we’ll install all solutions as single node instances with the following sizings:
| Name | Purpose | Size | vCPU | Memory (GB) | Disk (GB) |
| vrslcm1 | Lifecycle Manager | – | 2 | 6 | 78 |
| wsa1a | vIDM | Medium | 8 | 16 | 60 |
| vra1a | vRealize Automation | Medium | 12 | 42 | 236 |
| vrops1a | vRealize Operations | Extra small | 2 | 8 | 274 |
| vrli1a | vRealize Log Insight | Small | 4 | 8 | 530 |
After the deployment of these solutions, we’re going to initially integrate them.