vSphere Virtual Machines view

A vSphere virtual machine (VM) is an isolated software container that can run its own applications and operating systems as if it were a stand-alone physical computer. It behaves exactly like a physical computer and has its own virtual (software-based) CPU, memory, storage and network interfaces, and allow flexible and dynamic allocation of CPU and memory resources.

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vSphere Infrastructure view

vSphere Data Explorer view

To access the vSphere Virtual Machines view, in the Views tab navigation pane, select Views > Virtualization > vSphere > Virtual Machines. The vSphere Virtual Machine view enables you to manage the capacity of a virtualized infrastructure running vSphere, and presents key capacity metrics and charts for vSphere VMs. You can use vSphere VM views to see the total capacity, idle capacity, most-utilized and least-utilized capacity and growth trends for CPU and memory subsystems. The view also provides recommendations that provide a set of recommended actions to help you resolve issues for your vSphere virtualized infrastructure.

Settings

You can use the Settings page to configure the settings for all pages in the vSphere Virtual Machines view. To access this page, on the vSphere Virtual Machines view page, select > View Settings.

Local settings

You can manage the local thresholds by configuring the Other Settings.

Field	Description
Other Settings
Top/Bottoms VMs Rank - CPU Weight	Edit the required vSphere Virtual Machines CPU Weight. This factor is used to Rank VMs in the view.
Top/Bottoms Partition Rank - Memory Weight	Edit the required vSphere Virtual Machines Memory Weight. This factor is used to Rank VMs in the view.
Top/Bottoms Partition Rank - Storage Weight	Edit the required vSphere Virtual Machines Storage Weight. This factor is used to Rank VMs in the view.
CPU Starved VMs - CPU Ready [%] Threshold	Edit the required CPU Ready [%] Threshold for the CPU Starved VMs.
High File System Usage VMs - FS Usage Threshold	Edit the required FS Usage Threshold for the High File System Usage VMs.
Memory starved VMs - Ballooning [MB] Threshold	Edit the required Ballooning [MB] Threshold for the Memory starved VMs.
Memory starved VMs - Swap Rate [KB/s] Threshold	Edit the required Swap Rate [KB/s] Threshold for the Memory starved VMs.
Memory starved VMs - Memory Usage [%] Threshold	Edit the required Memory Usage [%] Threshold for the Memory starved VMs.
High Latency VMs - Times Latency Exceed Threshold	Edit the required Times Latency Exceed Threshold for the High Latency VMs.
High Latency VMs - Latency (msec) Exceed Threshold	Edit the required Latency (msec) Exceed Threshold for the High Latency VMs.

Data views

Displays the details when the view was last refreshed. Click Refresh views to refresh all vSphere Virtual Machines views. After you click this button, all vSphere Virtual Machines views are scheduled for materialization.

The option to Refresh views is available only if your user role has permissions to edit the view. For more details about permissions, see Configuring authorization profiles.

Optimizer Thresholds

The Optimizer Thresholds link opens the Thresholds page in the Helix Capacity Optimization Console that enables you to configure metric thresholds and indicators. For more information, see Configuring and managing thresholds for metrics and indicators and Configuring indicators.

Pages in the view

For more information about the vSphere VM view, see the following topics: