vSphere Infrastructure view

The Infrastructure view enables you to manage the capacity of a virtualized infrastructure that is running vSphere, and presents key capacity metrics and charts for vSphere hosts and domains. You can use vSphere views to complete tasks such as manage the capacity of vSphere hosts belonging to a cluster, identify vSphere VMs that can be added to clusters, manage  vSphere datastores, explore the vSphere infrastructure tree map view, and so on.

To access the vSphere Infrastructure view in the navigation panel of Helix Capacity Optimization Dashboard, select Menu_big.png > Capacity > Views > Virtualization > vSphere > Infrastructure. The vSphere Infrastructure page contains subviews that provide details on vSphere clusters, hosts, and datastores. The view also provides a set of actions as recommendations to help you resolve issues for your vSphere infrastructure.

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vSphere Infrastructure view with sample data

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You can choose to view the data for a specific domain, tag, or time period by using the corresponding filters. For more information, see Using-filtering-options-in-the-Helix-Capacity-Optimization-Dashboard.

For more information, see the following topics:

Settings for vSphere Infrastructure view

You can use the Settings page to configure the settings for all pages in the vSphere Infrastructure view. To access this page, on the vSphere Infrastructure view page, select Settings icons.png > Edit Settings.

Local settings

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

Field

Description

Maps Settings

CPU Utilization [%]

Modify the required values for displaying the threshold values for the CPU utilization in the Maps page of the vSphere Infrastructure view:

  • In the Low Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from 0 to value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of blue color.
  • In the Good Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Low Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of green color.
  • In the Warn Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Good Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of yellow color.
    The entities with capacity above the value in the Warn Threshold box are displayed in the shades of red color.

Composite Memory Utilization [%]

Modify the required values for displaying the threshold values for the composite memory utilization in the Maps page of the vSphere Infrastructure view:

  • In the Low Threshold box, edit the threshold value for composite memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from 0 to value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of blue color.
  • In the Good Threshold box, edit the threshold value for composite memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Low Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of green color.
  • In the Warn Threshold box, edit the threshold value for composite memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Good Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of yellow color.
    The entities with capacity above the value in the Warn Threshold box are displayed in the shades of red color.

Memory Utilization [%]

Modify the required values for displaying the threshold values for the memory utilization in the Maps page of the vSphere Infrastructure view:

  • In the Low Threshold box, edit the threshold value for memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from 0 to value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of blue color.
  • In the Good Threshold box, edit the threshold value for memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Low Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of green color.
  • In the Warn Threshold box, edit the threshold value for memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Good Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of yellow color.
    The entities with capacity above the value in the Warn Threshold box are displayed in the shades of red color.

Datastore Utilization [%]

Modify the required values for displaying the threshold values for the Datastore Utilization in the Maps page of the vSphere Infrastructure view:

  • In the Low Threshold box, edit the threshold value for Datastore Utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from 0 to value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of blue color.
  • In the Good Threshold box, edit the threshold value for Datastore Utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Low Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of green color.
  • In the Warn Threshold box, edit the threshold value for Datastore Utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Good Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of yellow color.
    The entities with capacity above the value in the Warn Threshold box are displayed in the shades of red color.

Other Settings

Memory Over-Commitment [%]

Modify the required value for displaying the threshold values for the Memory Over-Commitment in the pages of the vSphere Infrastructure view:

  • In the Good threshold, edit the threshold value for Memory Over-Commitment.
  • In the Warn threshold, edit the threshold value for Memory Over-Commitment.

Show Benchmark Type

Edit the required Benchmark Type in the box. Use the subresource for resource BYBENCHMARK_VALUE.

High Latency Datastores - Latency Threshold

Edit the required high latency datastore threshold.

High Latency Datastores - Times Latency Exceed Threshold

Edit the required times high latency can exceed datastore threshold.

Data views

Displays the details when the view was last refreshed. Click Refresh views to refresh all vSphere Infrastructure views. After you click this button, all vSphere Infrastructure 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-user-roles-and-access-groups.

Global settings

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.

 

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