Virtualization data
Virtualization data refers to the information generated, managed, or used by virtualization platforms to represent, configure, monitor, and operate virtualized resources such as virtual machines (VMs), virtual networks, and virtual storage. This data includes both the configuration and operational state of virtualized environments, as well as logs, metrics, and metadata related to virtual infrastructure. It is essential for provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting virtualized environments.
Examples of virtualization data include the following:
- Virtual machine (VM) configuration files
- Snapshot and image metadata
- Virtual network configuration
- Resource utilization metrics
- Event and log data
- Access and permission settings
- Virtual disk files
Add-ons and apps
- Splunk Add-on for VMware
- Splunk Add-on for VMware Extractions
- Splunk OVA for VMware
- Splunk Add-on for Amazon Kinesis Firehose
- Splunk Firehose Nozzle for VMware Tanzu
- AWS EC2 Connector
- Microsoft Azure Compute Connector
- Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Hyper-V
- Proxmox Add-on for Splunk
- Monitoring of Java Virtual Machines with JMX