EAT – The VMware Cloud Director Atmosphere Evaluation Instrument

As we stay up for the subsequent evolution of our multi-tenant cloud platform, understanding how VMware Cloud Director (VCD) is used within the area has by no means been extra essential. VMware Cloud Director Atmosphere Evaluation Instrument (EAT) — a light-weight, on-demand script designed to assist Cloud Suppliers and VCD Enterprise Clients acquire insights into their VCD deployments whereas contributing knowledge to form future platform enhancements.

What’s the VCD Atmosphere Evaluation Instrument?

The EAT is a diagnostic utility that collects environment-specific metadata from a VCD occasion. It helps you:

• Assessment deployment scale, together with:
  • Variety of Organizations, PVDCs, OrgVDCs, and networks
• Perceive function utilization patterns
• Establish complicated vApp constructs (e.g. giant vApps with a number of networks or nested parts)

The instrument was constructed to help each Suppliers and VMware product groups in gaining higher visibility into how VCD is getting used throughout the ecosystem. 

What Does It Acquire?

EAT solely gathers structural metadata about your deployment. This consists of:

• Counts of tenants (Orgs), VDCs, networks, and edge gateways
• Characteristic utilization flags (e.g. if vApp leases, storage profiles, or affinity guidelines are used)
• A abstract of probably the most complicated vApps for scale benchmarking
• System versioning and configuration indicators

The output is a human-readable Excel report, permitting you to:

• Assessment all collected knowledge earlier than sharing
• Take away or redact something you favor to maintain non-public

No telemetry or automated add is concerned. You keep accountable for what will get despatched.

Which VCD Variations are supported? 

The EAT Instrument helps gathering knowledge from VCD 10.4.x, 10.5.x and 10.6.x deployments. 

Find out how to Share the Report

As soon as finalized, please ship an electronic mail to VCDEAT.PDL@Broadcom.com. You’ll then obtain a novel, safe hyperlink for importing the file.
This helps us compile real-world knowledge to information platform course and guarantee we prioritize the capabilities you depend on most.

Find out how to Obtain? 

You’ll be able to obtain VMware Cloud Director Atmosphere Evaluation Instrument from the next hyperlink (underneath Drivers & Instruments part).

Find out how to Use the EAT Instrument

Step 1: Obtain and Unpack

• Obtain the file: vcd-assessment-tool-1.0-release.zip
• Add and unzip it on one among your VMware Cloud Director (VCD) cells

Step 2: Run the Script

• Navigate into the unzipped folder –  vcd-assessment-tool-1.0
• Execute the script by working: ./eat.sh

Step 3: Find the Report

• The report will probably be generated underneath the next listing:
  /decide/vmware/vcloud-director/knowledge/switch/
• Inside, you will see a folder named with the present date and time
• Search for a file named: assessment-reports-.zip  (Default location can be /decide/vmware/vcloud-director/knowledge/switch/
  This ZIP comprises the Excel report and extra metadata

Step 4: Assessment and Share the Report

• Open the Excel file and evaluation the collected knowledge
• If wanted, take away any info you don’t want to share
• As soon as finalized, please ship an electronic mail to VCDEAT.PDL@Broadcom.com.
  You’ll then obtain a novel, safe hyperlink for importing the file.

Optionally available Parameters

The instrument additionally helps command-line arguments. For instance:

• –vcd-url  VCD API endpoint
• –username or -u  VCD API username
• –-password or -p  VCD API password
• –output-dir or -d output listing for dumping zip, xlsx, json information [default = /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer/]
• –interactive or -i Interactive Mode (True/False)

You’ll be able to view all obtainable choices by working: ./eat.sh –assist