Hey All,
I have been hanging to post about vCOPS 6 or as it is now known vROPS 6 since i first started playing with it. There is so much to cover I will not post much on the inner workings but more on the operational side and how to use the product. I will be revisiting the cluster dashboard design here but vROPS 6 re invented version.
Today is a small but quick tip. Previously in vCOPS 5.x a big use of super metrics was to convert the smaller metric values like KB into more usable and readable metrics like GB particularly when referring to Memory. some of you who have been on this bog previously may remember a post on how to make dashboards more readable HERE well it can now be thrown out the window 🙂
So how has vROPS 6 reduced this need?
When configuring for example a scoreboard with memory metrics. As we can see in the below image the metrics selected are in KB so if we were not using super metrics we would generally but the measurement the same
But when we look at the metrics being displayed in the below image it doesn’t look quiet right does it? hovering the mouse over the scoreboard tile revels its actually showing GB so we will have to go into the settings and change the measurement.
This applies to MHz which gets upped to GHz, KBps gets changed to MBps and GB for storage gets changed to TB. This only applies when displaying the metrics in a dashboard, the raw metrics when viewed on a chart or graph will still be in the base measurement. Either way this has significantly reduced my supermetrics library.
More soon
For those wanting to have a play with vROPS 6 VMware have released a HOL item HOL-SDC-1401 – Cloud Management with vRealize Operations which is for you
Cheers
*UPDATE*
This is something I have not thought about or looked at in a while and since vROps 6.0 release has changed. Thanks to Labhesh for pointing this out which made me have a look and check it out again.
In version 6.0.2 this has now changed. instead of automatically scaling from KB into GB etc, We have the ability to select what the metric will be displayed in.
When looking at the scoreboard metric we have a drop down of the available metric measurement units and what is chosen will be what is displayed. As per the below image.
This is he same for CPU, Network, Storage.
Still reducing the supermetric usage of 5.x days but in a more elegant way
Also worth nothing dashboards created pre upgrade will not have these drop downs available. and will only display in KB where they previously didn’t.
Cheers
Hi,
In vrops i dont see it displays in GB . it still does kbs. how do i get gb to display?
Hi Labhesh,
You running vROps 6? or 5?
Cheers
6.0.2
Hi Labhesh,
See the update to the post. This slipped under my radar and I think its allot better than what was originally done in 6.0. in the widget select what metric you want it displayed in and that’s what its displayed in.
Cheers heaps for pointing out the issue 🙂
I change it but i do not see the changes in widget from GB to TB
Also. it works with Self provider On. I am using Self provider on since i am pulling from object list which is a cluster list.
Been talking with some peeps and looks like this is a bug and should be addressed in 6.1 but for now supermentrics can be used like the days of old. 🙂
Thanks Scott!
Hi Scott
I’m trying to create a report that spits out the 25% consumers of resources – say the top 25% VMs by CPU usage and by RAM, on a scheduled basis. I’ve tried a variety of out of the box and create-your-own reports, but I haven’t been successful so far. I’ve been trying my hand at supermetrics to come up a supermetric that would help me do this. The closest one to me is the ‘count’ function but then I don’t have a comparison operator to compare values.
Have you done such a report with the use of a supermetric or without it? I’m totally stumped at this one. Thanks.
This is a limitation of the view that can be built for reports. What your after is a top-n widget functionality in a report.
Getting the list of vms listed by usage and listed from largest to smallest is easy but all VMs will be listed not the top 25 for example.
A supermetric will not help you here unfortunately as you are still limited in how the view will be displayed in a report.
Thank you for taking the time to reply!
I’ve decided to go with a .csv report that lists all VMs by usage (in the descending order) and then I trim the list to have the top 25% only. Doesn’t work as automatically as I’d like but it is what it is.