View Overview Performance Charts

You can view performance charts for CPU, disk, memory, network, and storage statistics. The charts that get displayed for an object depend on the current view of the Performance tab.

Prerequisites

To view overview performance charts, the vSphere Client must be connected to a vCenter Server.

Procedure

1	Display the object in the inventory.

2	Select the object and click the Performance tab.

3	If the advanced performance charts appear by default, click Overview.

4	In the View list, select the charts to view.

For example, to view storage charts for a virtual machine, select Storage in the View list.

Note

If an object has no child objects, the child view will not be available. For example, if there are no virtual machines on a selected host, the Virtual Machines view is not available for that host. In addition, if the fault tolerance functionality is disabled, the Fault Tolerance view for virtual machines will not be available.

 

Table 6. Inventory Objects

Object	View list items
Datacenter	■ Clusters – Thumbnail CPU and memory charts for each cluster, and stacked charts for total CPU and memory usage in the datacenter. This view is the default. ■ Storage – Space utilization charts for datastores in the datacenter, including space by file type and storage space used by each datastore in the datacenter.
Datastore	■ Storage – Space utilization charts for the datastore: space by file type, space by virtual machine, and space usage.
Cluster	■ Home - CPU and memory charts for the cluster. ■ Resource Pools & Virtual Machines – Thumbnail charts for resource pools and virtual machines, and stacked charts for total CPU and memory usage in the cluster. ■ Hosts – Thumbnail charts for each host in the cluster, and stacked charts for total CPU, memory, disk usage, and network usage.
Host	■ Home – CPU, memory, disk, and network charts for the host. ■ Virtual Machines – Thumbnail charts for virtual machines, and stacked charts for total CPU usage and total memory usage on the host.
Resource Pool	■ Home – CPU and memory charts for the resource pool. ■ Resource Pools & Virtual Machines – Thumbnail charts for resource pools, and virtual machines and stacked charts for CPU and memory usage in the resource pool or vApp.
Virtual Machine	■ Home – CPU, memory, network, and disk usage charts for the virtual machine. ■ Storage – Space utilization charts for the virtual machine: space by file type, space by datastore, disk read/writes, total gigabytes, and disk I/O. ■ Fault Tolerance – CPU and memory charts that display comparative metrics for the fault-tolerant primary and secondary virtual machines.