Specifications

Chapter 11: Dependency maps
By using dependency maps, you can see one item in your virtual infrastructure
and its relationship to the rest of the infrastructure. Dependency maps provide a
way to see how problems in your environment may affect applications, services,
or other areas of your virtual infrastructure.
Dependency maps start with one or more items in context. Initially, the items in
context appear in the top box. All items that depend on (or are depended on by)
the items in context then appear in the other four boxes. There are generally a
total of five boxes in a dependency map.
l Virtual Machines
l Hosts
l Clusters
l Datastores
l Applications
The items displayed in their boxes are only the items that are related to whatever
is in context. Changing the context will change the dependencies.
Using the initial context
To see the dependency maps, perform one of the following steps:
l Click Explore, and then click Map. This method opens the dependency
map with all clusters in context. By definition, this means that the
dependency map shows the entire virtual environment.
l Select one or more items from search results or the active list, and then click
Map in the action bar. This method places the selected items in context.
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