About dashboards

A dashboard provides a visual overview of an object. You can use different widgets and views to change the focus of information.

You can create various dashboards to meet your monitoring needs. You do not have to show every dashboard on the Home page. You can choose to show a subset of dashboards. You can select one dashboard as your default starting point.

To customize built-in dashboards, ensure that you clone the built-in dashboard before modifying the clone.

Designing dashboards

One of the greatest features of vRealize Operations is of course the ability to create custom dashboards. The power in custom dashboards is being able to display relevant information to the different areas of your organization.

Let's look at some of the reasons why we would want to create custom dashboards, and how they help to manage your environment more efficiently.

Dashboards are mainly used within different IT support teams. Generally, IT support is split up into different sections. This does...