Analytics is the heart of vRealize Operations, as it is essentially the runtime layer for data analysis. The role of the Analytics process is to track the individual states of every metric, and then use various forms of correlation to determine if there are problems.

At a high level, the Analytics layer is responsible for the following tasks:

• Metric calculations
• Dynamic thresholds
• Alerts and alarms
• Metric storage and retrieval from the Persistence layer
• Root cause analysis
• Historic Inventory Server (HIS) version metadata calculations and relationship data

Analytics components work with the new GemFire-based cache, Controller, and Persistence layers. The Analytics process is also responsible for generating SMTP and SNMP alerts on the master and master-replica nodes.