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 ESX(i) 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:
- The Host/Datastore ratio shows the average number of hosts connected to a single datastore.
- The VMs/Host ratio shows the average number of VMs running on a single physical host.
- The VMs/Datastore ratio shows the average number of VMs that store data on a single datastore.
- The 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 physical resources allocated to VMs:
- The vCPU allocation ratio shows the amount of physical CPU resources allocated toVMs (in percentage).
- The Datastores allocation ratio shows the amount of datastore space allocated to VMs (in percentage).
- The 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:
- The vCPU value shows the total number of provisioned vCPUs.
- The 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.
- The Allocated Memory value shows the total amount of provisioned virtual memory.
- The 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.
