This is an archive version of the document. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.VMware Infrastructure
The VMware Infrastructure dashboard is designed to provide at-a-glance view of configuration of the VMware vSphere infrastructure and to help you assess the overall performance and resource usage efficiency.
Widgets Included
- Virtual Environment
This widget shows the total number of vCenter servers, clusters, ESXi hosts and VMs in your environment, as well as the number of currently running VMs.
- CPU and Memory Resources
This widget assesses physical CPU and memory resources installed on ESXi hosts and shows the amount of available resources allocated to VMs.
- Datastores Capacity
This widget provides information on the number of datastores in your environment, their total capacity, the amount of provisioned and free space left on the datastores.
- Consolidation Ratio
The widget tracks the amount of virtual hardware placed on physical hardware:
- Host/Datastore ratio shows the average number of hosts connected to a single datastore.
- VMs/Host ratio shows the average number of VMs running on a single physical host.
- VMs/Datastore ratio shows the average number of VMs that store data on a single datastore.
- vCPU/Core ratio shows the average number of virtual processors operating on a single physical CPU core.
- Allocation Ratio
The widget tracks the amount of virtual and physical resources allocated to VMs:
- vCPU allocation ratio shows the number of virtual processors operating on a single physical CPU core (in percentage).
- Datastores allocation ratio shows the amount of datastore space allocated to VMs (in percentage).
- Memory allocation ratio shows the amount of physical RAM allocated to VMs (in percentage).
- Wasted Resources
The widget tracks the amount of over-provisioned resources in your environment, based on data gathered by the Oversized Virtual Machines report:
- vCPU value shows the total number of provisioned vCPUs.
- vCPU Wasted value shows the total number of over-provisioned vCPUs. Use this value as a measure of compute resources that you can reclaim and allocate to other VMs.
- Allocated Memory value shows the total amount of provisioned virtual memory.
- Memory Wasted value shows the amount of over-provisioned virtual memory. Use this value as a measure of compute resources that you can reclaim and allocate to other VMs.
