Understanding the VSC dashboard : Monitoring datastores by using the VSC dashboard of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA


Monitoring datastores by using the VSC dashboard of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA
You can monitor the performance and view details about storage that has critical issues by using the Datastores portlet of the Virtual Storage Console dashboard of the virtual appliance for Virtual Storage Console (VSC), VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA). The dashboard lists the top five datastores in your vCenter Server instance.
The Datastores portlet provides the following details:
You can view all of the datastores that are configured in your vCenter Server along with their performance metrics.
You can view the top five datastores in your vCenter Server along with their performance parameters and modify these datastores, if required.
You can list the top five datastores according to the space utilized, IOPS, or latency in one of the following orders:
Note: To view the IOPS for a datastore, you must enable Storage I/O Control as detailed in the VMware documentation.
The VSC dashboard of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA enables you to view either NFS datastores or VMFS datastores. You can click on a datastore to navigate to the datastore details view that is provided by the vCenter Server instance to view and fix any issues with the datastores in your vCenter Server.
In the VMware vCenter Server linked-mode setup, you may have multiple instances of vCenter Servers. When you navigate from the VSC dashboard of one vCenter Server to any other page (for example, the datastore performance page), and then you navigate back to the VSC dashboard by using the Back button, data is displayed for the first vCenter Server instance in the vCenter Server drop-down menu. You must manually select the required vCenter Server instance for which you want information in the vCenter Server drop-down menu. The Reports page behaves in a similar manner.
Parent topic: Understanding the VSC dashboard