To help you investigate and troubleshoot problems with your cluster and host systems that might occur in the future, you can create dashboards and views. These tools apply the troubleshooting solutions that you used to research and solve the problems with your host system, and make the troubleshooting tools and solutions available for future use.
To view the status of your cluster and host systems when your CIO asks you about their health, you can use the decision support dashboards on the VMware Aria Operations Home page. For example, you can:
- Use the Cluster Utilization dashboard to view the use index, CPU demand, and memory use for your clusters. This dashboard also tracks Internet use and disk I/O operations.
- Use the Capacity Summary dashboard to track total environment capacity, system-wide capacity and time remaining, and capacity remaining by CPU, memory, and storage. The dashboard also includes Top 10 lists for clusters running out of CPU, memory, and storage, respectively. Additional details are available.
- Use the Capacity Optimization dashboard to examine the provisioned capacity levels for CPU, disk, and memory and to review potential reclaimable capacity from CPUs, data centers, snapshot waste, and virtual memory.
Or, you might need to create your own dashboards to track the status of your clusters and host systems.
If you work in a Network Operations Center environment and have multiple monitors, you can run multiple instances of VMware Aria Operations. By running the many instances, you can dedicate a monitor to each dashboard and visually track the status of your objects.
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Prepare to share information with others, plan for growth and new projects, and use policies to monitor continuously all the objects in your environment. To plan for growth and new projects, see the topic, How Does Capacity Optimization Work in the VMware Aria Operations Configuration Guide. To generate reports, and create and customize policies, see the VMware Aria Operations Configuration Guide. .