notoriousbdg / vrops-dashboard-reclaimable_resources_details

Reclaimable Resources Details Dashboard for vRealize Operations

Reclaimable Resources Details Dashboard for vRealize Operations 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, and Cloud

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Use this vRealize Operations dashboard to identify reclaimable resources in your enviroment.

Dashboard

Installation

1. Import the super metrics at Administration / Configuration / Super Metrics / Import Super Metric
   
2. Click Browse... then select the file named supermetric.json
3. For each Super Metric listed in the Super Metrics section, click on the vertical kebab and select edit.
   
4. Enable the Super Metric for each Policy shown in the Enable in a Policy stage of the wizard.
5. Repeat the previous 2 steps for the remaining Super Metrics listed in the Super Metrics section.
6. Import the view at Dashboards / Views / Import...
   
7. Click Browse... then select the file named Views.zip
8. The included views are listed in the Views section
9. Import the dashboard at Dashboards / Actions / Manage Dashboards / Import Dashboards
   
10. Click Browse... then select the file named Dashboard.zip
11. The dashboard should now be available in in the dashboard list
    
12. The included dashboards are listed in the Dashboards section

Dashboards

Dashboard Name	Dashboard Path
Reclaimable Resources Details	Shared Dashboards (GBrandon)/Cost

Views

View Name	Name on Dashboard	View Type
Reclaimable Powered Off VMs	Reclaimable Powered Off VMs	List
Reclaimable Idle VMs	Reclaimable Idle VMs	List
Reclaimable VM Snapshots Details	Reclaimable VM Snapshots Details	List
Datastores with Orphaned Disks	Datastores with Orphaned Disks	List

Super Metrics

Super Metric Name	Object Type
Potential Savings from Idle VMs	vSphere World
Potential Savings from Orphaned Disks	Datacenter
Potential Savings from Orphaned Disks	Custom Datacenter
Potential Savings from Orphaned Disks	Cluster Compute Resource
Potential Savings from Orphaned Disks	vSphere World
Potential Savings from Powered Off VMs	vSphere World
Potential Savings from VM Snapshots	vSphere World
Reclaimable Disk Space from Idle VMs	Datacenter
Reclaimable Disk Space from Idle VMs	Custom Datacenter
Reclaimable Disk Space from Idle VMs	vSphere World
Reclaimable Disk Space from Orphaned Disks	Datacenter
Reclaimable Disk Space from Orphaned Disks	Custom Datacenter
Reclaimable Disk Space from Orphaned Disks	vSphere World
Reclaimable Disk Space from Powered Off VMs	Datacenter
Reclaimable Disk Space from Powered Off VMs	Custom Datacenter
Reclaimable Disk Space from Powered Off VMs	vSphere World
Reclaimable Disk Space from VM Snapshots	Datacenter
Reclaimable Disk Space from VM Snapshots	Custom Datacenter
Reclaimable Disk Space from VM Snapshots	vSphere World
Reclaimable Memory from Idle VMs	Datacenter
Reclaimable Memory from Idle VMs	Custom Datacenter
Reclaimable Memory from Idle VMs	vSphere World
Reclaimable vCPUs from Idle VMs	Datacenter
Reclaimable vCPUs from Idle VMs	Custom Datacenter
Reclaimable vCPUs from Idle VMs	vSphere World

Support

This dashboard requires vRealize Operation 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 Advanced or Enterprise edition or vRealize Operations Cloud.

Please open an issue for feedback.

Changelog

2020-03-19

• Initial release

2020-04-30

• Added Potential Savings chart

2020-05-08

• Added Summary Super Metrics

vrops-dashboard-reclaimable_resources_details's Issues

Getting error message on Dashboard

Error Message:

No such metric reclaimable|orphaned_disk|cost

Just upgraded today to vROPs 8.1 and followed the instructions listed for the dashboard. Get the message when selecting any object.