vCloud view

The vCloud view provides an overview of vCloud, Provider vDCs, and Organization vDCs in terms of CPU, memory, and datastore utilization for each entity. It is based on cloud database structures and enables you to:

View the capacity for vCloud, Provider vDCs, and Organization vDCs
Identify resource bottlenecks
Discover underutilized resources
Track resources that are experiencing, or will soon experience capacity shortfalls

Prerequisites

Ensure that the administrator has completed the following tasks:

For information about views in the TrueSight console, see Accessing-and-using-capacity-views-in-the-TrueSight-console.

Certified data sources

The certified data sources for these views are:

You must configure and run one of these ETL modules to import data into the view.

If you are importing data from an ETL module other than the certified data source, then ensure that you have all the metrics populated in the ETL module so that the view shows the data.

Video

The following video (4:22) provides a brief introduction of the vCloud views.

https://youtu.be/R121wZXA6MQ

Settings for the vCloud view

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

Local settings

Setting to show alerts on systems whose forecasted days to saturation are under or equal to the specified threshold
Setting to specify the minimum number of days needed to calculate trends

Data views

Displays the details when the view was last refreshed. Click Refresh views to refresh all vCloud views. After you click this button, all vCloud 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 Adding-and-managing-roles.

The Optimizer Thresholds link opens the Thresholds page in the TrueSight Capacity Optimization console that enables you to view and manage the metric and indicator thresholds. For more information, see Configuring-and-managing-thresholds-for-metrics-and-indicators.