Enhancements to the dashboard
The preceding dashboards should be sufficient. However, if you think you need additional visibility to help you understand your environment, you can:
- Use the percentile chart
- Add utilization information
We will use compute as an example. It should be relatively straightforward to apply the idea to storage and network.
The percentile chart
The maximum value can be too aggressive. All it takes is one VM experiencing high contention, and you have to consider the cluster full already. This is fine if your IaaS is indeed unable to meet the business demand. What if the demand is not from the business but IT's own generated workload?
An example is a full AV scan or full backup that was performed during non-business hours. They ...
Get VMware Performance and Capacity Management - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
