DX Dashboard for VMWare Datastore

[STEVE MOORE]

We're looking at OI and DX Dashboards.  There is an Out Of The Box dashboard for VMWare Datastores, and I'm wondering if we could get a look at how this dashboard looks in other environments.  Specifically, I'd like to know if the "Datastore Read vs Write Latency" chart should be showing data for VMs or for hosts?  I thought we were collecting the right data for this and we were just seeing a single value for read and write on the chart.  After doing some other work, the chart suddenly started showing data points from multiple VMs.  The other charts on the dashboard "Datastore Read vs Write Average Operations", "Datastore Read Rate vs Write Rate", and "Datastore Storage Usage vs Storage Provisioned" are currently presenting one data set for each item as the title would suggest.

I'm hoping to get a shot of how this dashboard looks on another system.  Also maybe some guidance on what I need to configure in our VMWare probe template so we can get the right information.  The queries for the charts use the Metric Type, and don't specifically name the metrics we need.  Getting the data we have was a process of adding and removing metrics from the template until data showed up.

Our charts look something like this:

[Nestor Falcon Gonzalez]

Hi Steve
it seems you are after these 2 metrics:

Datastore Total Read Latency
Datastore Total Write Latency

UIM reports them at 2 levels: HOST_DATASTORE and VM_DATASTORE
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/alphabetical-probe-articles/vmware-vmware-monitoring/vmware-metrics.html

Now to see if your probe is reporting that metric I recommend you do a "Save as.." of the VMWare DataStore" dashboard and edit the Datastore latency panel as follows:



That will enable you to see the "Latency" related metrics reported by vmware probe.
Another option is first to explore the metrics in UIM to see if your probe is collecting them

HTH to get you started
Nestor

[STEVE MOORE]

Thanks for the reply.  We are getting the data, I was able to view it from the Metric Viewer in OC

Thanks

Steven Moore

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[Nestor Falcon Gonzalez]

Excellent news. Thanks for the feedback Steven

Nestor Falcon

Solution Engineering | Agile Operations Division

Broadcom Software

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