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Table 4-19. VC Relationship Widget Icons (Continued)

Icon Description

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.

Define Metric Sets for a Widget

You can use an XML file to define metric sets for the Metric Graph, Metric Graph (Rolling View), Metric

Sparklines, Data Distribution Analysis, and Generic Scoreboard widgets.

A metric set defines a fixed set of of metrics for the widget to draw when you select a particular resource. You

can select a metric set definition XML file when you edit the widget configuration.

You can obtain keys and identifiers to use in a metric set definition XML file by accessing the

vCenter Operations Manager database and running SQL queries. See “Retrieve Keys and Identifiers from the

Database,” on page 99.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have the necessary access rights to perform this task. Your vCenter Operations Manager

administrator can tell you which actions you can perform.

Procedure

1 Create a metric set definition XML file.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

</ResourceKind>

</AdapterKind>

</AdapterKinds>

In the example, the widget draws the resourceMemOverhead_latest, capacity_provisioned, and

host_contention metrics for host system resources.

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