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VMware Requirements Connect Quickly & Easily

To collect data, you need the Densify Connector. It's a self-contained, Windows-based application that allows you to perform automated, scheduled data collection from your vCenter servers (mandatory) or vROPs (optionally for workload only) and transfers that data via HTTPS to your dedicated Densify instance for analysis. Our Densification Advisors walk you through the process to make it as easy as possible.

Supported VMware Versions

You can collect data from vCenter to gather data daily or if you have vROps, connect to it to get historical data as well.

VMware vCenter Server 6.5, 6.7, or 7.0

  • Read-only account required with access to the clusters, hosts, VMs and datastores to be audited
  • Config Stats Level 2 (Level 3 if you need to report on disk IOPs and network packets), statistical logging interval of 5 minutes and 48 hour data retention (required if not using vROps)

vROps 7.0, 7.5, 8.0.1, or 8.1 (Standard and Enterprise)

  • Read-only local user or domain user account is required

Obtaining the Connector

The email and password you provide during the registration process will be used to:

  • Details on how to access your instance will be emailed to you after you register for the free use period
  • Log in to your dedicated Densify instance to download the Connector and access Online Help
  • Connect the Connector to your Densify instances to upload data from your environment

Installing & Configuring The Connector

Running The Connector

It is recommended that the Connector is installed on a VM (dedicated or shared) with:

  • 2 CPUs, 8GB Memory, 10GB Storage
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or 2019

Alternatively, the Connector can be installed on a Desktop PC with:

  • 2 CPUs, 8GB Memory, 10GB Storage
  • Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit

Note:

  • Only U.S. English-based locale settings are supported
  • OpenJDK 11.0.4 (jdk11.0.4_11_minimal) is installed automatically with the latest version of the connector

Public Cloud Requirements Connect Your Clouds Quickly & Easily

Watch these videos to see how to connect your clouds to Densify in read-only mode to enable data analysis. Our Densification Advisors will also walk you through the process to make it as easy as possible.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

CloudWatch Data Collection

  • IAM Role with ReadOnlyAccess policy for each AWS account to be analyzed

Billing Data Collection

  • Cost and Usage Report (CUR) must be enabled on AWS payer account
  • IAM Role for payer account with access to S3 bucket where CUR is stored
  • Same IAM Role can be used for billing and CloudWatch data collection

Connecting Densify to AWS using an IAM Role

Google Cloud (GCP)

  • GCP Service Account with access to GCP Projects to be analyzed
  • StackDriver must be enabled for each project
  • The following APIs must be enabled for each project:
    • Google Cloud Resource Manager API
    • StackDriver Monitoring API

Connecting Densify to Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure

  • Azure Active Directory (AD) user account to connect to Azure subscriptions with Standalone AD
  • Azure Service Principals must be used to connect to Azure subscriptions with Federated AD
  • Azure user/principal must be granted “Reader” access to Azure subscriptions to be analyzed

Billing Data Collection

  • Create a second cloud connection using the same Azure user/principal with “Reader” access.

Connecting Densify to Azure

Container Requirements

Platform Requirements

Any Kubernetes compliance platform (e.g. EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, etc.)

Dependencies

Prometheus, kube-state-metrics, Node Exporter (optional)

For detailed instructions on downloading and deploying the data forwarder please view our Data Collection for Containers documentation page.

Browser Support

We support all modern browsers:

  • Google Chrome 74 or later
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11.0.125 or later. When using IE, navigate to Tools > Compatibility View Settings and de-select Display intranet sites in Compatibility View. Note: Densify recommends using Edge or Chrome instead of IE, when viewing the Densify Console.
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Safari 12.1.1 running on macOS Mojave (version 10.14.5)

Additional Notes

  • The free experience is limited to environments with a minimum of 200 instances and a maximum of 2,000 instances
  • The standard term for the free experience is 14 days. Please contact your Densification Advisor if you need to discuss extensions.
  • The email and password you provide during the registration process will be used to log in to your dedicated Densify instance
  • Details on how to access the portal and your instance will be emailed to you after you register for the trial

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