OnCommand Insight's custom dashboards and widgets help provide operational views into inventory and performance trends.
There are many challenges facing IT operations today. Administrators are being asked to do more with less, and having full visibility into your dynamic data centers is a must. In this example, we will show you how to create a custom dashboard with widgets that give you operational insights into the virtual machine performance in your environment. By following this example, and creating widgets to target your own specific needs, you will be able to visualize backend storage performance compared to frontend virtual machine (VM) performance, or view VM latency versus I/O demand.
Custom dashboards allow to you to prioritize efforts and identify resource availability. You can respond to the ebb and flow of workloads and minimize the time to detect and remediate emerging issues. Custom dashboards allow you the flexibility to create prioritized views into business-critical infrastructure, and are useful for identifying performance availability across multi-vendor technologies.
Here we will create a Virtual Machine Performance dashboard containing the following:
This is just a basic example. You can customize your dashboard to highlight and compare any performance data you choose to target for your own operational best practices.