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VM Performance

This report aggregates historical data and shows performance statistics for a selected VM across a time range.

The report shows tables and performance charts with statistics on CPU, memory, disk and network usage for the VM and calculates resource usage trend for it.

VM Performance Tip:

Click a cluster/host/resource pool name in the Navigation table to drill down to performance charts with statistics on CPU, memory, disk and network usage.

VM Performance Report

Use Case

The report allows you to verify that you have provided enough resources to the virtual machine.

Report Parameters

You can specify the following report parameters:

  • Object: defines the VM to analyze in the report.
  • Interval/Period/Start Date - End Date: defines the time period to analyze in the report. Note that the reporting period must include at least one data collection session for the selected VM. Otherwise, the report will contain no data.
  • Business hours from - to: defines time of a day for which historical performance data will be used to calculate the performance trend. All data beyond this interval will be excluded from the baseline used for data analysis.