Design Considerations

How to Use the Dashboard

Overall Analysis
The
Clusters by Capacity Remaining
and
Clusters by Time Remaining
bar charts focus on vSAN disk space and not compute and network.
Use the
vSAN Clusters
table to view vSAN specific metrics.
Cluster Analysis
Select a vSAN cluster from the
vSAN Clusters
table. The detailed capacity is automatically displayed.
The
Utilization
widget displays the utilization for all three elements, as you need to consider all three. Network is not shown as typically it is not a problem.
Like a physical array, there can be hot spots and imbalance. The
Is Disk Group Space Utilization Balanced
heat map displays individual disk groups.
Reclaimable storage is a key component of proactive capacity management. You can view details for both VMs and non-VMs.
You can view the
Dedupe and Compressed
scoreboard for more details in this area.
Disk Group Analysis
If there is imbalance, you can analyze each disk group. The
Disk Groups Selected in Selected vSAN Cluster
displays all the disk groups in the cluster. Their usage may not be similar, but should not deviate drastically. To view the disk group usage trend, click on a disk group.
VM Analysis
You can analyze individual VMs in the selected cluster from the
VMs in the selected vSAN Cluster
table and check their usage and snapshot. To view the trend in Usage, click on a VM. In addition, the relevant configurations of the VM is displayed.