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kmart_hb
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Multiple custom groups in one View widget

I need to create reports for management that shows pie charts of various applications' resource utilization. I have created tags within vCenter for each application and assigned them to the applicable VMs. I then created custom groups in vROps for each of these applications and defined their membership criteria based off Virtual Machine object types and associated tags for each. I cannot figure out from there how to get these pie charts created. I need one pie chart that shows/compares the number of CPUs each of these custom groups utilizes, another one for storage utilization, another for RAM and so-on. When I create a new view/dashboard, I only see the option to add one custom group in the View widget. I am also having trouble figuring out which metric or property to select for this data. A simple, total consumption of each resource per custom group compared on one (each) pie chart is all I need. I am using vROps 7.0 Advanced. Thank you for any input to this.

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BrettK1
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I'll second this question.

Similarly, I'm trying to create a View that includes Summary Rows for 2 Custom Groups.  Those groups are 'Production' and 'Test, Dev'.  Each of those 3 categories have vSphere tags, the 2 Custom Groups were easy to create.  I also created a 3rd Custom Group that contains these 2 custom groups as well for testing different methods.and I can create a Summary View of a single custom group, but not one that shows both groups individually.

I have also tried a List with a Summary Row with VM as the Subject to get the Metrics I want, and group by Environment (this would not be an acceptable solution in the ways I've tried it yet).  I attempted 'Show the Total' for various metrics, but this has multiple problems.  1) It lists every VM before the summary 2) The summary is for everything again, not individual components, and 3) When I 'sort by Environment', it lists all the VMs in each environment they belong to (i.e. the Custom Groups I've created, AND SDDC Health Group and 4) Totals the resources of those duplicated VMs (so resource usage is shown as more than double than exists in the environment).

Is there a way to accomplish this without a MINIMUM of multiple new Super Metrics?

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BryonZ
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Hello - did you ever figure this out?

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