In the documentation of the vCOPs Installation and Configuration guide, it describes how to install remote collectors and analytics processors. How does this capability work?
The guide says that the remote collector is installed on a remote host. Is this host collecting information about the vCenter environment that it is in and passing it back to the primary server? Or is it just collecting data about that host, so then everything you would want to monitor would need the agent?
And would this remote host pass the information back to the primary analytics machine or one of the additional ones?
I'm asking because I'm trying to think of a WAN architecture for vCOPs. Thank you!