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What to do next
Adjust workloads to balance resources as necessary.
Identify Datastores with Enough Space for Virtual Machines
Identify the datastores that have the most space for your next set of virtual machines.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click Environment.
2 Select vSphere World.
3 Click the Heat Map tab under the Details tab.
4 Select the Which datastores have the highest disk space overcommitment and the lowest time
remaining? heat map.
5 In the heat map, point to each datacenter area to view the space statistics.
6 If a color other than green indicates a potential problem, click Details in the pop-up window to
investigate the disk space and disk I/O resources.
What to do next
Identify the datastores with the largest amount of available space for virtual machines.
Identify Datastores with Wasted Space
To improve the eciency of your virtual infrastructure, identify datastores with the highest amount of
wasted space that you can reclaim .
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click Environment.
2 Select vSphere World.
3 Click the Heat Map tab under the Details tab.
4 Select the Which datastores have the most wasted space and total space storage? heat map.
5 In the heat map, point to each datacenter area to view the waste statistics.
6 If a color other than green indicates a potential problem, click Details in the pop-up window to
investigate the disk space and disk I/O resources.
What to do next
Identify the red, orange, or yellow datastores with the highest amount of wasted space.
Identify the Virtual Machines with Resource Waste Across Datastores
Identify the virtual machines that waste resources because of idle, oversized, or powered-o virtual machine
states or because of snapshots.
Procedure
1 In the left pane of vRealize Operations Manager, click Environment.
2 Select vSphere World.
3 Click the Heat Map tab under the Details tab.
4 Select the For each datastore, which VMs have the most wasted disk space? heat map.
5 In the heat map, point to each virtual machine to view the waste statistics.
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