Dashboards are the primary reasons you use Performance Analyzer; you want to see what your various VMware installations are doing.
There are a number of types dashboards:
| Name | Purpose | |
|---|---|---|
| VMware Capacity Planning: Infrastructure | Overall capacity and performance across clusters; Analyze and plan capacity and load trends, etc. | |
| VMware Capacity Planning: Cluster | Overall capacity and performance by clusters; Analyze and plan capacity and load trends, etc. | |
| VMware Capacity: Computing | Individual computing host or group capacity and performance; computing group view; Analyze computing group performance and resource utilization, etc. | |
| VMware Capacity: Storage | Individual storage datastore capacity and performance; storage group view; Analyze storage group performance and resource utilization, etc. | |
| VMware Capacity: VM Snapsots | Individual VM snapshot capacity and utilization; VM Snapshot view; Analyze Virtual Machine Snapshot resource utilization, etc. | |
| VMware Performance: Network | Network Ports with send/receive data and link utilization for Ethernet, send/receive statistics; Network Port views; Analyze for busiest Ports, trending of usage, etc | |
| VMware Performance: Host Cluster | Top performance computing metrics and entity utilization, network pattern and disk IO behavior of ESXi hosts a specific cluster; Analyze CPU and memory constrains, disk and caching performance, VM efficiency, etc. | |
| VMware Performance: Storage | Datastore view showing IOP, and latency. Latency breakdown within selected cluster; Storage views;Analyze for busiest datastores, view detailed latency breakdown, etc | |
| VMware Performance: Storage Cluster | Datastore view showing IOP, and latency. Latency breakdown for all cluster at once; Storage views;Analyze for busiest datastores, view detailed latency breakdown, etc | |
| VMware Performance: Host Single | Top performance computing metrics and entity utilization, network pattern and disk IO behavior of a specific ESXi host; Analyze CPU and memory constrains, disk and caching performance, VM efficiency, etc. | |
| VMware Performance: VM | Top VM performance computing metrics and entity utilization, network pattern and disk IO behavior; VM views; Analyze VM CPU and memory constrains, disk and caching performance, VM efficiency, etc. | |
| VMware Performance: VM Cluster | Top Cluster VM performance computing metrics and entity utilization, network pattern and disk IO behavior; VM Cluster views; Analyze Cluster VM CPU and memory constrains, disk and caching performance, VM efficiency, etc. | |
| VMware Statistics: Cluster Quickview | Get statistics about CPU, Memory, Disk and VM usage per Cluster; cluster views; Check long and short term resource utilization and export statistics, etc. | |
| VMware Statistics: Overall Infrastructure | Your complete overview about your whole VMware vSphere environment; landscape view; Check your overall health of your vSphere environment, etc | |
| VMware vscsiStats: Cluster/VM/Disk | Provides in depth storage analysis. See vscsiStats for details. | |
| VMware vscsiStats: Host/Datastore | Provides in depth storage analysis. See vscsiStats for details. | |
| VMware VSAN Capacity | Check the VMware vSAN storage capacity usage over time. | |
| VMware VSAN Monitor | Check all vital signals of your VMware vSAN. | |
| VMware vSphere Health Status | Get a complete View on your VMware vSphere environment and the VM and Host health; First dashboard to check to get an overall view about critical metrics |
Here are some simple task’s you can do with the default dashboards:
To design a new dashboard, see: Design your own dashboards
To import a dashboard, see: Export and Import Dashboards