VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Health monitoring, accessible through the SDDC Manager UI and integrated with VCF Operations (VMware Aria Operations), provides health status for the core infrastructure components of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). The system performs periodic health checks on the foundational compute, storage, and networking elements. The primary components monitored are the ESXi hosts that provide the compute resources, the vCenter Server instances that manage the vSphere environment for each workload domain, and the NSX components (Managers and Edge nodes) that provide network virtualization and security services. Monitoring these specific components is essential for ensuring the overall stability and operational integrity of the VCF environment.

A. VCF Operations: This is the monitoring suite itself (e.g., VMware Aria Operations), not a core VCF infrastructure component that is being monitored for health.

D. VCF Operations Fleet Management: This is a management capability within the Aria suite for managing its own components, not a monitored VCF infrastructure element.

E. VCF Operations for Logs: This is a component of the monitoring suite (VMware Aria Operations for Logs), used for log aggregation, not a monitored infrastructure component.

1. VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 Documentation - Administering VMware Cloud Foundation: In the section "Health Monitoring in VMware Cloud Foundation

" the documentation explicitly states

"VMware Cloud Foundation performs health checks on the following components: SDDC Manager

vCenter Server

NSX

and ESXi hosts." This directly supports the selection of ESXi hosts (B)

vCenter Server (C)

and NSX (F).

Source: VMware Cloud Foundation Documentation

"Administering VMware Cloud Foundation

" Chapter: "Monitoring VMware Cloud Foundation

" Section: "Health Monitoring in VMware Cloud Foundation."

2. VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Foundation Documentation: The official documentation for the management pack that enables VCF monitoring in Aria Operations details the objects it discovers and monitors. It lists "VMware Cloud Foundation objects such as SDDC Manager

Workload Domain

vCenter

NSX-T

and ESXi hosts." This confirms that vCenter

NSX

and ESXi hosts are primary targets for monitoring.

Source: VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Foundation Documentation

"Introduction

" Section: "Key Features."