Watchlist page in the vSphere Virtual Machines view

The Watchlist page in the vSphere Virtual Machines view displays metrics of VMs that need more capacity or are displaying resource contention indicators.

To access the page, in the Views tab navigation pane, click Views > Virtualization > vSphere > Virtual Machines, and in the vSphere Virtual Machines page, click the Watchlist tab.

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

CPU Starved VMs page

The CPU starved VMs page displays metrics for VMs with high CPU ready values or with peak utilization over a threshold.

Each row in the CPU Starved VMs table corresponds to a VM and provides the following information:

CPU Starved VMs table

Memory Starved VM page

The Memory Starved VMs page displays VMs with high swapping or ballooning activity, or with peak utilization over a threshold.

Each row in the Memory Starved VMs table corresponds to a VM and provides the following information:

High Filesystem Usage VM page

The High Filesystem Usage VMs page displays VMs with either high utilization of the filesystem space, or with high use of provisioned space.

Each row in the High filesystem usage VMs table corresponds to a VM and provides the following information:

High Latency VMs

The High Latency VMs page displays VMs exhibiting high latency based on factors such as read/write rates, disk transfer rates, and so on.

By default, the metric tables in this view are filtered on all domains. Use the domain filter options to select the required domain from the table.
By default, the summarization time range for all metrics is set to Last 30 days. Use the time filter options controls to select an alternate range.

For detailed information on how to use filters, see Filtering-data-displayed-in-Views.

Each row in the High Latency VMs table corresponds to a VM with high latency and displays the following metrics.

Detailed information about a particular VM

To view the details page for a specific VM, click its name under the VM column. You can use the sorting and filtering options on the page to find a specific cluster.

The VM details page displays information for the selected VM under the following sections or panels:

Section or Panel	Description
Summary page	A quick graphical summary of the CPU and memory utilization, and network bit rate and disk transfer rate for the VM. Core metrics for the selected entity are displayed as analysis charts, depending on available data. At the bottom of each chart is a link that takes you to the Data Explorer view for the specific resource type, and displays charts and information for a larger set of metrics. The data displayed in Data Explorer view charts for any resource part of this view category, is based on the time filter that is applied to the primary view in this tab. You can select other time filter options to view charts over a different time resolution For more information, see Virtual Machine page in the vSphere Data Explorer view.
Configuration Details page	Configuration information about the cluster.
Related Information panel	Links to detailed pages for thresholds.
Recommendations panel	All available recommendations for the VM. For more information, see Recommendations-page-in-the-vSphere-Virtual-Machines-view. If the virtual node data is available, the forecasted saturation for memory is computed based on the virtual node memory utilization. Otherwise, it is computed using MEM_ACTIVE of the virtual machine. When using MEM_ACTIVE, the vSphere VM Active Memory increase factor is applied to increase the MEM_ACTIVE metric value. You can configure the value of this vSphere VM Active Memory increase factor. For details, see Configuring-and-managing-thresholds-for-metrics-and-indicators.
Tags panel	List of tags that are associated with the VM. You can assign or remove tags by using the Edit Tags option from the Tags action menu.