Compare Available
Resources to Balance the Load Across the Infrastructure
A heat map can be
used to compare the performance of selected metrics across the virtual
infrastructure. You can use this information to balance the load across ESX
hosts and virtual machines.
If the combination of metrics
to compare is not available in the list of defined heat maps, you must define a
custom heat map first. See
Create a Custom Heat Map.
- From the left menu, clickEnvironment.
- Select an object to inspect from an inventory tree.
- Click theHeat Mapstab under theDetailstab.
- In the list of heat maps, click the one to view.The heat map of the selected metrics appears, sized and grouped according to your selection.
- Use the heat map to compare objects and click resources and metric values for all objects in your virtual environment.The list of names and metric values for all objects shown on the heat map appear in the list below the heat map. You can click column headers to sort the list by column. If you sort the list by a metric column, you can see the highest or lowest values for that metric on top.
- To see more information about an object in the heat map, click the rectangle that represents this object or click the pop-up window for more details.
Based on your findings, you
can reorganize the objects in your virtual environment to balance the load
between ESX hosts, clusters, or datastores.