6.0.1

View Performance Charts
The vCenter Server statistics settings, the type of object selected, and the features that are enabled on the
selected object determine the amount of information displayed in charts. Charts are organized into views.
You can select a view to see related data together on one screen. You can also specify the time range, or data
collection interval. The duration extends from the selected time range to the present time.
Overview charts display multiple data sets in one panel to easily evaluate different resource statistics,
display thumbnail charts for child objects, and display charts for a parent and a child object. Advanced
charts display more information than overview charts, are configurable, and can be printed or exported.
You can export data in the PNG, JPEG, or CSV formats. See “View Advanced Performance Charts,” on
page 92.
Procedure
1 Select a valid inventory object in the vSphere Web Client.
Overview and advanced performance charts are available for datacenter, cluster, host, resource pool,
vApp, and virtual machine objects. Overview charts are also available for datastores and datastore
clusters. Performance charts are not available for network objects.
2 Click the Monitor tab, and click Performance.
3 Select a view.
Available views depend on the type of object. For views that might contain a large number of charts in
a large environment, the vSphere Web Client displays the charts distributed on multiple pages. You can
use the arrow buttons to navigate between pages.
4 Select a predefined or custom time range.
Performance Charts Options Available Under the View Menu
The performance chart options that you can access under the View menu vary depending on the type of
inventory object you select.
For example, the Virtual Machines view is available when you view host performance charts only if there
are virtual machines on the selected host. Likewise, the Fault Tolerance view for virtual machine
performance charts is available only when that feature is enabled for the selected virtual machine.
Table 1‑6. Performance Chart Views by Inventory Object
Object View List Items
Data center
n
Storage - space utilization charts for datastores in the data center, including space by file type and
storage space used by each datastore in the data center.
n
Clusters - thumbnail CPU and memory charts for each cluster, and stacked charts for total CPU
and memory usage in the data center. This view is the default.
Datastore and
datastore
cluster
n
Space - space utilization charts for the datastore:
n
space utilization by file type
n
space utilization by virtual machine
n
space usage
n
Performance - performance charts for the datastore or datastore cluster and for virtual machine
disks on the resource.
NOTE The Performance view for datastores is only available when all hosts that are connected to the
datastores are ESX/ESXi 4.1 or greater. The Performance view for datastore clusters is only available
when the Storage DRS is enabled.
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