VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management

Use case – storage capacity management

The target user for this use case is the storage administrator or storage architect.

I like this particular dashboard as it demonstrates how you can be creative with super metrics. This dashboard is courtesy of my colleague Yuval Tenenbaum, a lead SE for Cloud Management based in the UK.

As a storage administrator, you may have a policy of not placing more than 15 VMs per datastore. You also want to keep 20 percent free space to cater for snapshots and growth. In a large environment, this can be difficult to enforce and track. If you have hundreds of datastores, it can be cumbersome to show the degree of compliance on a single screen. Ideally, you would like to see a heat map showing all datastores; the higher ...