Another important factor to consider when choosing what resource containers should be used is where the data supporting the resource container originates and how it is calculated. With vSphere data, each container's total capacity is either configured or observed, as shown in the following screenshot:
The configured total capacity is a hard, factual piece of data that vRealize Operations has access to or is able to directly derive from other data. A good example of this is host or cluster CPU and memory capacity. Through vCenter, vRealize Operations knows exactly how much GHz and GB of memory an ESXi host ...