VMs right-sizing report (AKA oversized VMs report) is one of the most promoted nworks v5.7 features, so let’s dive into its behavior details.

Parameters

1. Report interval. Analysis will be based on performance and configuration data collected within selected interval. However, current configuration will be considered as well. So, to avoid misunderstandings of any kind, I recommend to use “Today” for an end moment (unless you want to exclude some unusual workload from analysis);
2. Sections to show. Report provides analysis for vRAM and vCPU. You may select one or both;
3. Show details. You may choose if you want to see details charts. Report will be generated much faster when charts are disabled (especially if you use pretty large value for “Count” parameter);
4. Objects. You may scope this report to any container object (ESX host, for example) or to a flat list of VMs. “nworks VMware Guests” group is used as a default value;
5. Count. Report is designed to show most oversized VMs. 25 is a default value, however you may use any large number here to get all oversized VMs.

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I was asked some questions about major differences between Microsoft’s and Veeam’s implementation of Generic Top/Bottom report. Here is the answer.

Overview

“Generic performance top N (bottom N) report” is a Veeam version of Microsoft’s “Performance Top Instances” and “Performance Top Objects”. 2 in 1. Even more, it can do Objects and Instances, so 3 in 1. Even more, there are some other cool features which are missing in Microsoft’s implementation:

We considered several options for performance reporting implementation. Using Microsoft Performance report was one of them. But, at a closer look, it turned out that it is not user friendly enough and some very important features are missing. So, we decided to implement our own version. Here is the description of major differences and enhancements.

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Now, when Veeam nworks v5.7 has been announced, it’s a good time to shed light on one of its key enhancements – reporting.

Our major goal for v5.7 was to bring new quality to existing reports and provide to nworks users the best OpsMgr reporting experience. Here is the brief overview of what you’ll get with Veem nworks v5.7 MP.
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