VMware Cloud Director (VCD) has the ability to use an Apache Cassandra database to store metrics on VM performance and then make these metrics available so that tenants can view the historic performance of their VMs: Installing a Cassandra cluster for use by VCD is reasonably straightforward and requires a minimum of 4 …

In vCloud Director v9 the requirement for both Apache Cassandra and KairosDB for storing metrics has been reduced to just Apache Cassandra. In addition, the ability to view VM metrics directly in the new vCD 9 HTML5 tenant UI makes it much more important to have a reliable Cassandra infrastructure. As I found when …