Well Datastore2 is an easy setup
- Create a blank dashboard and add two widgets first one heat map, second one resources. I did two columns, heatmap the bigger column
- On the heatmap i configured it as a datastore resource kind sized by usage avg and colored by disk command latency
- then i filtered it by vcenter server (we have two), you could do by datacenter also
- For the resources widget i added two additional columns one for disk workload and disk usage rate
- tag filter by virtual machines and then filter by collection status and just select collecting (should remove powered off vms)
- Then I order by health for fun
- Last you need to setup the widgets interactions selected heatmap for and point the receiving widget as your resources
As for others, the main dashboard I keep up is this one... I don't know how much it would help to share it but you could copy the widget layout and resources setup. I do have the EMC VNX Connector so some of the stats you may not be able to collect yourself without it.
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On the topic of the VNX connector, one cool dashboard you can make is disk heatmaps, this is sized by disk size and colored by busy %. Large blocks are 1tb 7.2k NL-SAS, middle size is 600gb 15k SAS, small ones are 200gb SSD. Easy to see we serve a lot of our IO out of SAS and FLASH. I love our VNX Arrays.
