Need help with a formula to do something.

[Gaprofitt17]

Hey guys,

So I have created a dashboard with Cluster Resource, Cluster Storage and Cluster CPU.  The interactions are set when I selected a Cluster Resource, say DMZ01 it populates the data for each metric graph.  I have seperate
XML files for each dashboard.  I want to be able to select a cluster in the resources widget and have it show each datastore and the total disk space free (gb) and total available (gb) for each datastore.  How
would I do this, I assume I need a new supermetric and xml file.

Thanks,

Greg

[mark_j]

The relationships are many from the cluster compute resource down to datastores of the underlying hosts. You probably only have a handful of clusters, so you'd be best off going with custom groups to do your organization.

I'd go in to the vSphere UI, create a custom group for each cluster, and populate using a criteria of all descendants + datastore object type so that you get groups for each cluster with datastores. Then go over to the custom ui.. add those groups to a resource widget.. then have another resource widget show "children".. so when you click a cluster group in the first resource widget, the 2nd resource widget populates with datastores. Pretty straightforward.

[Gaprofitt17]

Thanks for the help, when I do this when I select the Group under environment for the resource widget it immediately shows the Datastores and not a list of the Groups.  I want to select the group and have it show children via another resources widget as mentioned.

Thanks,

Greg