Specifications

Basic System Administration
290 VMware, Inc.
Viewing Charts
Severalchartviewsarepreconfiguredforyou.Achartviewisacollectionofsettingsthat
definewhatdatathechartdisplays.Settingsforpreconfiguredviewscanbe
customized,orentirelynewviewscanbecreated.Chartsdisplaydataaslinegraphsor
stackedgraphs.Stackedgraphsarelimitedtodisplaying
dataonasinglemetric,but
canplotthedataonthatmetricformultipleinventoryobjects.
To view performance charts
1 Selectahost,cluster,resourcepool,orvirtualmachineintheinventorypanel.
2 SelectthePerformancetab.
Figure 18-3. VI Client displaying Performance tab for virtual machine.
3 SelectanoptionfromtheSwitchtomenutoviewadifferentchart.Preconfigured
chartsinclude
thefollowing:
 CPU–ShowstheCPUusageinMHzoftheselectedinventoryobject.
Availableforcluster,resourcepool,host,andvirtualmachine.
 Memory–Showstheamountofmemorygrantedtotheselectedinventory
object.Availableforcluster,resourcepool,host,andvirtualmachine.
 Disk–Showstheaggregatedstorageperformancestatisticsoftheselected
inventoryobject.Availableforhostandvirtualmachine.