vROPS to automate adding hosts to VMware cluster when demanded

[jantharan]

Folks,

Hope you are all staying safe and doing well!.

Now that vROPS (8.1) understand vSAN greatly, i would like to improve the Capacity Management process to automaticaly add host to a cluster when there is a demand for capacity.

Is there a way i can automate this process using vROPS which can contact SDDC Manager (VCF 4.0) and add host(s) to cluster?

Deeply appreciate your ideas and suggestions around.

Thanks in advance.

MV

[sxnxr]

There is no direct integration between vrops and VCF that i am aware. It may be on the roadmap and nothing mentioned about it. The only option i can think of and is theory and no idea if it would work is maybe generate a VRO workflow based of an alert in vrops that would start a VCF job to expand.

[jantharan]

Thanks sxnxr for the input.

Yes, exactly that's what i was assumming but wanted to check if there are any other method already avaialble.  Much appreciated. 

[KabirAli82]

Yeah there is no direct integration between vROPs and the SDDC manager. Your only option is to build something in vRO or a tool like Node-RED to convert the vROPs API into a format the SDDC Manager can deal with.

See 3.6 of the SDDC Manager API guide

VMware Cloud Foundation API - VMware API Explorer - VMware {code}