Custom Dashboards

[bdseymour]

Hello everyone. I am new to VCOPS and I have been tasked with learning the product and creating custom dashboards. Does anyone have any advice on learning the product and second if you were to create cusome dashboards for monitoring what would you suggest creating?

Thanks for the advice!

[ServiceOptimi]

I use custom dashboards to group objects and focus on a key aspect such as cpu util% for virtualmachines, or esx hosts. When I use heat maps I focus on the res kind, then a set of key metrics, and I usually try to combine multiple heat maps together. CPU in one quadrant, memory, disc, or network in another. Its easy to see the troubled cpu or memory when you can present hundreds and hundreds of like type devices together.

[venkat1974]

Hopefully this article may give you more information.

http://velemental.com/2012/04/12/tutorial-building-custom-dashboards-in-vcops/

Thanks

[jddias]

Hi bdseymour, I have made a couple of videos on building custom dashboards that may help you get started...

http://www.storagegumbo.com/2012/04/video-creating-custom-dashboard-in.html

http://www.storagegumbo.com/2012/04/application-tiers-with-vc-ops-custom-ui.html

[bdseymour]

This has all been very helpful. Unfortunately we have standard and will have  to upgrade to enterprise to be able to take advantage of these features. In the  meantime I am wondering, with the per-packeged reporting in standard,  If I  drill down to a datastore and then want to get Peak Read IOPs and Peak Read IOPs  do I choose Write Rate and Read Rate?

[jddias]

Hi bdseymour, you'll want to look at "Max Observed" if you want to see what the highest peak has been for the last 6 months (the default retention for metrics in vC Ops).  See screen cap below.  Otherwise, you could use the metrics you mention to focus in on peak workload during a given time period (last 6 hours, for example).