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Best Practice: finding the right assets

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The Insight assets you can reference in widget filters and searches vary from asset type to asset type.

In dashboards, the asset type around which you are building your widget determines the other asset type counters for which you can filter or add a column. Keep the following in mind when building your widget:

This asset type / counter:

Can be filtered for under these assets:

Virtual Machine

VMDK

Datastore(s)

Internal VolumeVMDK

Virtual Machine

Volume

Hypervisor

Virtual Machine

Is hypervisor

Host

Host(s)

Internal VolumeVolume

Cluster

HostVirtual Machine

Fabric

Port

This is not a comprehensive list.

Best practice: If you are filtering for a particular asset type that does not appear in the list, try building your query around an alternate asset type.