Configure a Dashboard That Provides an Overview of the SDDC State

Create a central dashboard that you can use to track the overall state of the SDDC.

The SDDC overview dashboard shows:

• The main indicators for the state of CPU, memory, connectivity, and storage in the management cluster that hosts the management applications.

• The overall state of the management applications in the SDDC. You use the SDDC management custom group that represents a common object for all management applications.

The SDDC overview dashboard consists of the following widgets:

• One Health Chart widget.

• Twelve Heatmap widgets showing heatmaps of the compute resources in the SDDC. You arrange the heatmap widgets in three rows and four columns. Heatmap widgets are labeled Heatmap X.Y where X is the row number and Y is the column number in the dashboard.

Table 1. Configuration of the Heatmap Widgets in the First Row of the SDDC Overview Dashboard

Widget Setting	Heatmap 1.1	Heatmap 1.2	Heatmap 1.3	Heatmap 1.4
Title	Physical CPU Time Remaining	Physical Memory Time Remaining	Management VM CPU Used	Management VM CPU Contention
Refresh Content	On	On	On	On
Refresh Interval	300 s	300 s	300 s	300 s
Name	Management Hosts	Management Hosts	Management VMs	Management VMs
Group by	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter
Then by	-	-	-	-
Focus on Groups	Selected	Selected	Selected	Selected
Mode	Instance	Instance	Instance	Instance
Object Type	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine	vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine
Attribute Type	Capacity Analytics Generated > CPU > Demand > Time Remaining (Day(s))	Capacity Analytics Generated > Memory > Demand > Time Remaining (Day(s))	CPU > Usage (%)	CPU > CPU Contention (%)
Min Value (Color)	0 (red)	0 (red)	80 (green)	0 (green)
Max Value (Color)	1 (green)	1 (green)	100 (red)	2 (red)
Filter	-	-	Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > sfo01m01vc01 Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > lax01m01vc01	Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > sfo01m01vc01 Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > lax01m01vc01

Table 2. Configuration of the Heatmap Widgets in the Second Row of the SDDC Overview Dashboard

Widget Setting	Heatmap 2.1	Heatmap 2.2	Heatmap 2.3	Heatmap 2.4
Title	Physical Disk Space Time Remaining	Physical Dropped Packets	Management VM Memory Used	Management VM Swap Rate
Refresh Content	On	On	On	On
Refresh Interval	300 s	300 s	300 s	300 s
Name	Management Hosts	Management Hosts	Management VMs	Management VMs
Group by	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter
Then by	-	-	-	-
Focus on Groups	Selected	Selected	Selected	Selected
Mode	Instance	Instance	Instance	Instance
Object type	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Host System	vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine	vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine
Attribute type	Capacity Analytics Generated > Disk Space > Demand > Time Remaining (Day(s))	Network > Packets Dropped %	Memory > Usage (%)	Memory > Swapped (KB)
Min Value (Color)	0 (red)	0 (green)	50 (green)	0 (green)
Max Value (Color)	1 (green)	1 (red)	90 (red)	1 (red)
Filter	-	-	Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > sfo01m01vc01 Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > lax01m01vc01	Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > sfo01m01vc01 Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > lax01m01vc01

Table 3. Configuration of the Heatmap Widgets in the Third Row of the SDDC Overview Dashboard

Widget Setting	Heatmap 3.1	Heatmap 3.2	Heatmap 3.3	Heatmap 3.4
Title	Storage vSAN Latency	Storage NFS Latency	Management VM Storage Latency	Management VM Disk Space Time Remaining
Refresh Content	On	On	On	On
Refresh Interval	300 s	300 s	300 s	300 s
Name	Datastores	Datastores	Management VMs	Management VMs
Group by	Storage Devices > VirtualSAN Datastore	Storage Devices > NFS Volume	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter	vCenter Adapter > Datacenter
Then by	-	-	-	-
Focus on Groups	Selected	Selected	Selected	Selected
Mode	Instance	Instance	Instance	Instance
Object type	Storage Devices > VirtualSAN Datastore	Storage Devices > NFS Volume	vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine	vCenter Adapter > Virtual Machine
Attribute type	Host Specific Metrics > Write Latency (ms)	Derived Statistics > Inferred Latency	Virtual Disk > Read Latency (ms)	Capacity Analytics Generated > Disk Space > Time Remaining (Day(s))
Min Value (Color)	0 (green)	0 (green)	0 (green)	0 (red)
Max Value (Color)	30 (red)	30 (red)	30 (red)	1 (green)
Filter	-	-	Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > sfo01m01vc01 Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > lax01m01vc01	Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > sfo01m01vc01 Adapter Instances > vCenter Server > lax01m01vc01

Table 4. Configuration of the Health Chart Widget in the SDDC Overview Dashboard

Health Widget Setting	Value
Title	Management Applications
Refresh Content	On
Refresh Interval	300 s
Self Provider	On
Mode	Children
Order By	Value Ascending
Pagination number	15
Metric	Health

Procedure

1. Log in to vRealize Operations Manager by using the operations interface.
   1. Open a Web browser and go to https://vrops01svr01.rainpole.local.
   2. Log in using the following credentials.

      Setting	Value
      User name	admin
      Password	vrops_admin_password

2. On the main navigation bar, click Dashboards.
3. From the Actions menu, select Create Dashboard .
4. In the Dashboard Configuration section of the New Dashboard dialog box, configure the following settings.

   Dashboard Setting	Value
   Name	SDDC Overview
   Is default	Yes

5. Add widgets to the dashboard.
   1. Expand the Widget List section. 
   2. Drag the 12 Heatmap widgets to the layout pane on the right, make three rows with four columns, and align them so that they are all approximately equal in size. 
   3. Drag a Health Chart widget to the layout pane on the right.
6. Configure the Heatmap widgets.
   1. In the upper-right corner of each widget, click the Edit Widget icon and configure the widget.
   2. In the Edit Heatmap dialog box, configure the settings of the heatmap widget and click Save.
7. Configure the Health Chart widget.
   1. In the upper-right corner of the widget, click the Edit Widget icon and configure the widget.
   2. In the Edit Health Chart dialog box, configure the settings of the Health Chart widget .
   3. From the objects list at the bottom, expand Function and select the SDDC Management custom group and click Save.
8. In the New Dashboard dialog box, click Save.

Results

The SDDC Overview dashboard becomes available in the Dashboards list of the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.