Once logged into Cloud Insights, navigate to Observability > Collectors > Data Collectors and press the button to install a new Data Collector.

From here search for ONTAP and click on ONTAP Data Management Software.

On the Configure Collector page fill out a name for the collector, specify the correct Acquisition Unit and provide the credentials for the ONTAP storage system. Click on Save and Continue and then Complete Setup at the bottom of the page to complete the configuration.

Once again, navigate to Observability > Collectors > Data Collectors and press the button to install a new Data Collector.

From here search for vSphere and click on VMware vSphere.

On the Configure Collector page fill out a name for the collector, specify the correct Acquisition Unit and provide the credentials for the vCenter server. Click on Save and Continue and then Complete Setup at the bottom of the page to complete the configuration.

In the left-hand menu, navigate to Observability > Enrich > Annotation Rules and click on the + Rule button in the upper right to add a new rule.

In the Add Rule dialog box fill in a name for the rule, locate a query to which the rule will be applied, the annotation field affected, and the value to be populated.

Finally, in the upper right hand corner of the Annotation Rules page click on Run All Rules to run the rule and apply the annotation to the assets.

In the left-hand menu, navigate to Observability > Explore > All Dashboards.

Click on the + From Gallery button to view a list of ready-made dashboards that can be imported.

Choose a dashboard for FlexVol performance from the list and click on the Add Dashboards button at the bottom of the page.

Once imported, open the dashboard. From here you can see various widgets with detailed performance data. Add a filter to view a single storage system and select a storage volume to drill into it's details.

From this view you can see various metrics related to this storage volume and the top utilized and correlated virtual machines running on the volume.

Clicking on the VM with the highest utilization drills into the metrics for that VM to view any potential issues.

In this example access a dashboard available in the Gallery called VMware Admin - Where do I have VM Latency?

Next, filter by the Data Center annotation created in a previous step to view a subset of assets.

This dashboard shows a list of the top 10 VMs by average latency. From here click on the VM of concern to drill into its details.

The VMs potentially causing workload contention are listed and available. Drill into these VMs performance metrics to investigate any potential issues.

In this example access a dashboard available in the Gallery called VMware Admin - Where are opportunities to right size?

First filter by all of the ESXi hosts in the cluster. You can then see ranking of the top and bottom VMs by memory and CPU utilization.

Tables allow sorting and provide more detail based on the columns of data chosen.

Another dashboard called VMware Admin - Where can I potentially reclaim waste? shows powered off VM's sorted by their capacity use.

Navigate to ONTAP Essentials > VMware to access a comprehensive VMware metric query.

In this view you are presented with multiple options for filtering and grouping the data at the top. All columns of data are customizable and additional columns can be easily added.