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dst2000
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How to generate a report

Hi,

I have fairly simple question, how to create reports in VC?  My boss is looking for weekly stats of all my 3 ESXi servers (CPU utilization, memory and so forth) the whole thing and he does not want screen shots.  What is the easiest way to do this?

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JedwardsUSVA
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VCenter/VSphere doesn't having any built-in reporting mechanisms.  Aside from using 3-rd party tools, you could always query the historical data from the VCenter SQL database using something like SQL Reporting Services or a progamming language of your choice.  It would take some digging to correlate all the data but it's there.  Look at the views such as "..._HIST_STAT..."

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JedwardsUSVA
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VCenter/VSphere doesn't having any built-in reporting mechanisms.  Aside from using 3-rd party tools, you could always query the historical data from the VCenter SQL database using something like SQL Reporting Services or a progamming language of your choice.  It would take some digging to correlate all the data but it's there.  Look at the views such as "..._HIST_STAT..."

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