The Assess Cost dashboard provides an overview of the scale of your infrastructure in terms of physical capacity available.

Customizations Available for Your Use

Certain data centers can be excluded, such as the development data centers that do not have to be expensed, by customizing the views in the widget.

Widget Information

  • You can view the total cost of ownership per month for the infrastructure and the savings opportunities details, if any, for the infrastructure.
  • You can view the details of the division of infrastructure investments across all data centers. The dashboard provides the magnitude of each data center in terms of the number of physical servers and virtual machines. It also provides details about the amount of savings that can be achieved from each of these data centers.
  • The dashboard displays data about how you invest across clusters of different quality offered across all vCenter Servers.