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Casey_Walgren's avatar
Casey_Walgren
4 years ago

How do you group your VM's with large VM environments?

I am working on grouping and organizing our LM deployment. We have around 2,000 VMs total, many of those are non-essential user VM's and dev machines. For much of our critical infrastructure and ap...
Steven_Parker's avatar
Steven_Parker
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4 years ago

My suggestion would be to clone the DataSource for VM Performance and rename it appropriately for what you are looking for; i.e VMware_vCenter_VMPerformance_DevServers and Displayed as VMware VM Performance - DEV Servers

Then you can create a filter that would narrow down only the Dev servers, which I would guess you could do by name with something like ##WILDALIAS## RegExMatch DEV, so it would look for the word "DEV" in every VM name.

That would give you a grouping of Developer servers under VM Performance.

Cloning the DataSource again and creating a filter that gives you the individual VMs would be the next task.  Then you have them grouped, can report on them, and have separate thresholds for them.