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Let me try to answer your questions to the best of my knowledge. A SuperMetric will introduce metrics that are not usually out of the box, you can generate some aggregated metrics that can be ... See more...
Let me try to answer your questions to the best of my knowledge. A SuperMetric will introduce metrics that are not usually out of the box, you can generate some aggregated metrics that can be used to correlate with other metrics. A custom group is useful when trying to a custom list to help create dashboards, views and reports. For example, you probably don't need to use a Custom Group for all VMs in your vCenter, but you might want one for maybe all VMs that are used in the Accounting department. Version 6.4 does not really offer a new way of creating a custom group or supermetrics. In summary, Custom groups and super metrics are different in the way you think about it, their functions are entirely different. Generally, what you would want to do is probably create a super metric comprising of OOB metrics to calculate IOPs and aggregate storage latency of all VMs. Then, you can just create a View out of it which you can then generate a dashboard or a report from. Posting a vROps question here would give you much more educated quick responses to your questions vs. the normal communities that are not streamlined to particular product. I hope this helps you.
Unlike Dashboards, you cannot share Views and Reports. You can only export the template and import it to the user's account.
It probably is possible to create something on database level, however, my workaround was just to create 24 schedules and check all boxes from Monday to Sunday. Do it once, and you don't have to ... See more...
It probably is possible to create something on database level, however, my workaround was just to create 24 schedules and check all boxes from Monday to Sunday. Do it once, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. Even if you decide to recreate the view, the report template is still there with all 24 schedules (12am to 11pm), took me about 10mins to create all of them. But that solved my problem for now. It would be nice for VMware to acknowledge this and make it a product feature for next release.