CPU counters at higher levels
By higher levels, I mean data center, vCenter, and World objects. Measuring at this level is useful in a large environment where you have many clusters. In a small environment with fewer than five clusters, it makes more sense to manage at the cluster level.
By now, we know that vCenter provides very little information at these levels. It does not provide information about CPU, RAM, disk, or network. vRealize Operations provides a set of key counters, which are useful in overall management. For example, the following two counters quickly tell us the state of CPU demand and contention for the entire infrastructure managed by a vCenter:
vRealize Operations provides more counters for higher-level objects
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