vRealize Operations 6.6 Persistence Layer Databases

vRealize Operations maintains the following databases:

• File system database:

This contains all the statistical time series data. This raw metric data is used to provide live status displays in the user interface.

• Central vPostgres:

This contains user configuration data, such as alert and symptom definitions, dashboard configurations, and super metric formulas. The global database is found only on the master node and master replica nodes.

• Alerts/symptoms vPostgres:

This contains alerts and symptoms information.

• HIS vPostgres:

This contains a historical view of all object properties and relationships.

• Cassandra:

This enables expansion of the cluster size to 16 nodes.