Collector Requirements
The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector Everpure VMware Appliance Quick Reference. Additional requirements are as follows:
- The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
- A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
- VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
- The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
- Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
- VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
- VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics
Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Everpure VMware Appliance.
What's New?
In an effort to support large vSphere environments, the VM Analytics collector now offers scale and speed improvements including:
- Replaced full topology collection with incremental updates
- Improved performance with batched metrics collection
- Performance gains in overall collection time (6x to 7x)
- Supports environment sizes up to 16,000 VMs