Dashboard that shows CPU/memory utilization for group of virtual machines in a virtual machine folder

[mikeanderson173]

I'm pretty new to vROPs, but I'm looking for a way to show total CPU/mem utilization for a group of VMs that are in specific folders on our vCenter. I don't want to have individual VM performance displayed, but the combined utilization of all of those VMs in the group. We can do it by cluster pretty easily, but I am having difficulty figuring out how to do it for a specific folder. The end goal is to break out Windows vs Linux VMs in a cluster to see what percentage of utilization each OS platform is consuming over a certain time period with peak utilization along with average utilization. Has anyone done anything like this?

[sxnxr]

Not sure how new but this is the high level. If you need more details let me know

1. Create a custom group for each folder and use the folder name in the membership rules.
2. Create a supermetric sum(${adaptertype=VMWARE, objecttype=VirtualMachine, metric=cpu|usagemhz_average, depth=1})
3. enable the SM in your policy and wait 5-10 mins
4. Create your dashboard with the groups in the object list and add a metric chart and select the SM
5. set up the widget interactions and you should be good to go

If you are 6.6.1 or lower you will need to create a metric config for the chart with the SM in it.

Also if you want to convert to GHz from MHz add /1000 after the last bracket in the SM

[mikeanderson173]

I'm kind of like infant new to vROPs 🙂 I'll take a look at your high level steps and see if I can figure it out within the tool. Many thanks for the response so far!