To get the full value from vCenter Operations Manager for monitoring a vCloud environment, it is recommended to configure vCenter Operations Manager dashboards. These dashboards provides a view of the health of the various vCloud constructs.

Dashboards can be shared between Admin groups. An example of this is the disk and network dashboards. The storage administrators can have a dashboard that is related only to storage metrics from the cluster. This dashboard can include metrics such as cluster disk I/Os or read/write latency. At the same time the network administrators have a dashboard that is related to the cluster networking metric. These metrics can include physical switches that are connected to the vSphere cluster to give the network administrator insight to statistics from the virtual and physical environment on one dashboard.

For this example, a dashboard has been created to display the following statistics on the resource cluster: