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Morketh
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How to see how much memory and cpu cores you have allocated in VROPS 6.1

I am very new to VROPS and this is actually my first time to use it and all I want to do is find how much Memory and CPU we have allocated to our VMs. Seems like it should be a built in report but I am not seeing it. Any step-by-step directions to get this information?

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sxnxr
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I struggled with this on 6.6. I was looking for this on a cluster level. There is a metric for vcpu for all powered on VMs but that does not include powered off. There is non for memory at all. I tried creating a super metric but i could never got one to work ( granted i am not a SM expert)

Now that said i did upgrade to 6.7 in my lab and there are metrics now for All vCPU allocated to VMs and Memory allocated as well on a cluster level ootb

The only way you may be able to do this is a list view for VMs with a summery field you could then run the report against each cluster

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Morketh
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I have resorted to going to each VM and writing down the amount of CPU's, memory, and storage allocated to each and then just adding them up for each cluster lol.

I would have thought that would be a fairly simple task for VROPs to do....

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sxnxr
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If that is all you wanted. create a list view using Virtual machine as the subject and change the data to property and add number of vcpu and memory then go to the summery tab and add one changing it to sum.

Add that view to a report and run it on the cluster object

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Morketh
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I made the view correctly I think but doesnt look like I have access to create a report, BOO!! No create button available.

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Morketh
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Tried on our admin account as well and there is no create button there next to the delete button for the reports. That is the correct location to create a report right on version 6.1? Screenshot in previous post.

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sxnxr
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Are you standard or advanced licences for vrops?

Also you should upgrade 6.1 support ended 2 years ago VMware Knowledge Base

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Morketh
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I'm not sure about the advanced license but I know we are Enterprise Plus. We looked in our license management and didnt see anything about the advanced license.

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sxnxr
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Your vrops licence not the esxi host licence.

go to administration, management and licencing to see what licence is applied to vrops

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Morketh
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When I look at administration > Licensing in VROPS itself it doesnt give good explanations of what the licenses do. "2 units of number of CPU packages of host system" is all I see, a bunch of licenses that say that.

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sxnxr
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Select the licence you are using and it will tell you below

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Mine is based of a licence package. yours may be different

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Morketh
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Okay each one of them say "VMware vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise for vRealize Operations"

so I assume that means we dont have the advanced like you are showing so I will not be able to create reports but I can upgrade to v6.7 and there apparently is a similar built-in report in that version that will give me the amount of allocated cores and memory for each VM or cluster and then I will just sum that up.

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sxnxr
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If you do upgrade to 6.7 there is already a cluster level metric that will tell you. No need to sum them

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