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Analyzing and predicting utilization trends

The Analytics panel contains report cards that show historical and forecasted processor, storage, and memory usage in devices and virtual resources (such as hosts, clusters, and virtual machines).

Important
This function requires a connection to VMware vRealize Operations Manager resource manager (see Connecting resource managers).

To display the utilization trend reports, click Advanced Analytics (Analytics icon) > Predefined Analytics, and then click Workload Utilization Trend to display the related analytics cards.

Resource Selection​

This report lists the devices and virtual resources that are managed by the orchestrator server.

Click a row in the table to display the utilization trends for that resource.

CPU Utilization Trend​

This report card includes a line graph that shows the processor usage, over time, for a specific virtual resource, and the forecasted trend when the processor usage will be reached the maximum supported capacity for that virtual resource.

You can change the time period that is displayed for historical and forecasted data from the History and Projection drop-down menus, respectively. You can also change the number of periods that are shown in the graph using the zoom box under the graph.

Memory Utilization Trend​

This report card includes a line graph that shows the memory usage, over time, for a specific virtual resource, and the forecasted trend when the memory usage will be reached the maximum supported capacity for that virtual resource.

You can change the time period that is displayed for historical and forecasted data from the History and Projection drop-down menus, respectively. You can also change the number of periods that are shown in the graph using the zoom box under the graph.

Storage Utilization Trend​

This report card includes a line graph that shows the storage usage, over time, for a specific virtual resource, and the forecasted trend when the storage usage will be reached the maximum supported capacity for that virtual resource.

You can change the time period that is displayed for historical and forecasted data from the History and Projection drop-down menus, respectively. You can also change the number of periods that are shown in the graph using the zoom box under the graph.