Potential Cost Savings Dashboard

The Potential Cost Savings Dashboard helps you to measure the cost saving as reported by VMware Aria Operations . You can evaluate the potential savings to track recommendations and improve cost efficiency over time. The dashboard shows both cost savings and capacity savings for idle VMs, powered off VMs, VM snapshots, orphaned disks, oversized VMs, and reclaimable hosts.

Widget Information

• The Cost Savings Breakdown widget displays potential savings and reclaimable capacity for idle VMs, powered off VMs, VM snapshots, orphaned disks, oversized VMs, and reclaimable hosts. You can also view the allocation changes for the oversized VMs.
• Reclaimable widget provides the metric details for the reclaimable vCPU, reclaimable memory, and reclaimable disk space.
• The Optimization Opportunities Breakdown widget covers the projected costs to improve performance as identified by VMware Aria Operations .
• Allocation Changes for Undersized VMs shows the number of vCPUs and GB of memory to add to undersized VMs.