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VC Relationship (Planning) Widget
The VC Relationship (Planning) widget provides use and available badge metric information (risk, time,
capacity, stress, efficiency, waste, and density) for the resources in your virtual environment. You can use this
information to plan for capacity upgrades or rebalance the workload in your virtual infrastructure.
Figure 3-22. VC Relationship (Planning) Widget
The VC Relationship (Planning) widget uses badges to represent derived metrics and give you a high-level,
broad view of the condition of your virtual environment. Objects appear in hierarchy levels. If a badge does
not have a green status, the object has a potential problem. You can double-click a badge to see the Resource
Detail page for that object.
The toolbar at the top left of the widget contains icons that you can use to change the object display.
Table 3-19. VC Relationship Widget Icons
Icon Description
Show Risk Values Changes the object display to show risk scores. The risk score indicates potential future
problems that might affect the performance of your system. vCenter Operations Manager
calculates the risk score based on the time remaining and stress scores.
Show Time Remaining
Values
Changes the object display to show time remaining scores. The time remaining score indicates
how much time remains before the resources of the object are exhausted.
vCenter Operations Manager calculates the score by resource type (for example, CPU use or
disk I/O) based on historical data for the pattern of use for the resource type. You can use the
time remaining score to plan provisioning of physical or virtual resources for the object or
rebalance the workload in your virtual infrastructure.
Show Capacity Values Changes the object display to show capacity scores. The capacity score indicates how close a
virtual object is to exhausting its available computing resources. Computing resources include
disk space, memory size, and network capacity.
Show Stress Values Changes the object display to show stress scores. The stress score indicates the historic
workload of the object.
Show Efficiency Values Changes the object display to show efficiency values. The efficiency score helps you identify
optimization opportunities in your system. vCenter Operations Manager calculates the
efficiency score based on the scores of the waste and density badges.
Show Waste Values Changes the object display to show waste scores. The waste score indicates over-provisioning
in your virtual infrastructure or for a specific object. vCenter Operations Manager calculates
waste for each resource type, such as CPU, memory, and disk, for each object in the
environment. You can use the waste score to identify the amount of resources that you can
reclaim and provision to other objects in your environment.
Show Density Values Changes the object display to show density scores. The density score indicates the consolidation
ratios, such as virtual machine per host, virtual CPUs per physical CPU, virtual memory per
physical memory, and so on. You can use the density score to achieve higher consolidation
ratios and cost savings.
You can use the Status Filter buttons to filter objects by state and the Sort By drop-down menu to sort objects
by name or value. In large inventories, filtering can help you quickly find objects that have degraded
performance characteristics.
The only configuration options for the VC Relationship (Planning) widget are the widget title and widget
refresh settings.
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