What reports do
Reports display detailed information about datastores and virtual machines, that enables you to review and identify potential issues with datastores and virtual machines in your vCenter Server.
You can view, sort, and export reports.
Virtual Storage Console (VSC) provides the following pre-canned reports:
Datastore Summary Report
The Datastore Summary Report provide information on the following parameters for datastores:
The report displays the IOPS for the datastore.
The report displays the latency information for the datastore.
You can also verify the time at which the report was generated. The Datastore Summary Report enables you to sort the report as per your requirement, and then export the sorted report using the Export to CSV button. The datastore names in the report are links that navigate to the Performance tab of the selected datastore and you can view the performance metrics.
Virtual Machine Summary Report
The Virtual Machine Summary Report provides the following performance metrics for all the virtual machines that use datastores provisioned by VSC for a selected vCenter Server:
The report displays the value for the committed capacity for a virtual machine.
The report displays the time since the virtual machines process is available on an ESXi host.
The report displays the latency for virtual machines across all datastores associated with the virtual machines.
The report displays whether the virtual machine is powered on or powered off.
The report displays the host systems on which the virtual machine is available.
Each virtual machine name in the report is a link to the Performance tab of the selected virtual machine. You can sort the virtual machine report as per your requirement and export the report in a .CSV format and save the report on your local system. The timestamp of the report is also appended to the saved report.
Parent topic: Understanding Virtual Storage Console reports