Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance - Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 - page 680

Figure 13.8
h e Overview lay-
out provides infor-
mation on a range
of performance
counters.

At the top of the Overview layout are options to change the view and the time range. The
contents of the View drop-down list change depending on the object you select in the vSphere
Web Client. Table 13.1 lists the different options available for each object.

Table 13.1: View options in the Overview area of the Performance tab

Selected Object View Options

Datacenter Clusters, Storage

Cluster Home, Resource Pools & Virtual Machines, Hosts

Resource pool Home, Resource Pools & Virtual Machines

Host Home, Virtual Machines

Virtual machine Home, Storage

Next to the View drop-down list is an option to change the time range for the data currently
displayed in the various performance charts. This allows you to set the time range to real time,
a day, a week, a month, a year, or a custom value. The Realtime time range setting displays the