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vSphere Data Explorer view

The Data Explorer view for vSphere shows the behavior of metrics for different vSphere entities as charts.

The Data Explorer views display the resource utilization of key metrics, such as, CPU core clock frequency, Number of CPU cores, CPU Utilization %, Real Memory Utilization %, Memory Utilization %, Total File Systems Utilization %, Real memory.

These metrics are displayed in separate charts. You can choose to view the data for a specific domain, tag, or time periods by using the corresponding filters. 

To access the vSphere Data Explorer view in the Views tab navigation pane, select Views > Virtualization > vSphere > Data Explorer. By default, the Cluster page is displayed.

The metrics are categorized based on different profiles and are grouped under separate tabs. Click a tab to view the charts for that profile.

Related topics

vSphere-Infrastructure-view

vSphere-Virtual-Machines-view

Filtering data displayed in Views

Cluster page in the vSphere Data Explorer view

From the Cluster filter, select the cluster that you want to view data for. 

CPU Profile

This page displays a set of charts and a table with system hardware configuration details.

Memory Profile

1 - The metric value is incomplete if you have explicitly excluded (blacklisted) or included (whitelisted) virtual machines or hosts while configuring the VMware vCenter Extractor ETL.

Datastore Profile

Network and Disk Profile

VM Analysis Profile

The charts are based on out-of-the-box analysis templates. 

Host Analysis Profile

The charts are based on out-of-the-box analysis templates. 

Resource Pool page in the vSphere Data Explorer view

To view details of a resource pool, from the Resource Pool filter, select that resource pool.

CPU Profile

Memory Profile

Host page in the vSphere Data Explorer view

From the cluster and host filters, select the cluster and host that you want to view data for. 

CPU Profile

The page displays a set of charts and a table with system hardware configuration details.


System Hardware Configuration table

Any change to the system configuration data is highlighted with a different font style in the table. Refresh the browser to view the most recent changes.

 Memory Profile

1 - The metric value is incomplete if you have explicitly excluded (blacklisted) or included (whitelisted) virtual machines or hosts while configuring the VMware vCenter Extractor ETL.

Disk Profile

Datastore Profile

Network Profile

VM Analysis Profile

The charts are based on out-of-the-box analysis templates. For more information, see Viewing-the-details-of-Analysis-templates.


Datastore Cluster page in the vSphere Data Explorer view

From the datastore cluster filter, select the datastore cluster that you want to view data for. 

The page displays the following chart:

Datastore page in the vSphere Data Explorer view

Use the cluster, datastore cluster, and datastore filters to select the datastore that you want to view data for. 

The page displays the following chart:

Virtual Machine page in the vSphere Data Explorer view

Use the cluster and VM filters to select the VM that you want to view data for. 

CPU Profile

The page displays a set of charts and a table with system hardware configuration details.

System Hardware Configuration table

The following information is displayed:

1 - Indicates metrics that are derived from the host of the virtual machine.

Any change to the system configuration data is highlighted with a different font style in the table. Refresh the browser to view the most recent changes.

Memory Profile

Disk Profile

Datastore Profile

Network Profile

 

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