Dashboard widgets

Metrics dashboard widgets

For definitions of the following widgets, see Metrics.

Hybrid dashboard widgets

For definitions of the following widgets, see Hybrid.

Billing dashboard widgets

For details of these Hybrid dashboard widgets, please see Hybrid

Optimization dashboard widgets

For details of these widgets, please see Optimization.

Virtual machine snapshots

If the user has the privilege to View enterprise snapshots list, this widget will display all of the snapshots in the user's tenant with:

Name
Virtual machine
Include memory
Size
Creation date

Configuration options: Title.

To jump directly to the VM with the snapshot, double-click on the Snapshot entry.

Entity monitoring

The Entity monitoring widget will display the monitoring of a selected resource.

On the metric display the user can filter and refresh as for other monitoring panels.

Entity monitoring dashboard widget displaying the CPU metric

The user can select the resource, which is a VM, VApp, or scaling group, and the Metric.

Configuration options for the entity monitoring widget

Budget

The Budget widget will display the percentage used of the configured budget with the amount used and total amount. You can create budgets for public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google, and private cloud.

Abstract datastore tiers

This widget displays the amount of storage that an enterprise is using in the storage service levels for the whole platform.

The widget will display the abstract datastore tiers that are enabled and allowed for the enterprise, and disabled tiers.

Screenshot: For the current enterprise the chart displays storage usage by service levels with soft and hard limits.

Dashboard widget that displays usage and limits of abstract datastore tiers

Key:

Blue shading = used
Orange line = soft limit
Orange shading = soft limit exceeded
Red line = hard limit

Options: Name; Show soft limits; show hard limits

Idle volumes

The Idle volumes widget will display the idle volumes of an enterprise or in the configured virtual datacenter with:

Volume Name
Tier
Total size