EVM comes with a rich set of reports that include timelines and charts ready to be viewed as soon as your virtual infrastructure and VMs have been discovered. EVM’s out of the box reports include detailed information on your virtual infrastructure. Configuration Management reports allow you to see hardware, application, network, service, user account, operating system, and snapshot information across your VMs, hosts, vCenters, clusters, resource pools, and storage locations. Migration Readiness reports allow you to see information specifically related to items required to migrate or VMotion VMs from one host to another. Operations reports look at free space on registered and unregistered VMs, to see power states for VMs, and see which offline VMs have snapshots or have never been analyzed. You are also provided with reports specifically related to the operation of EVM. Relationships reports show VM, folder, and cluster relationships. Virtual Desktop reports show on virtual machines that are based on a desktop operating system.

Customizable, role-based views ensure that only the information that is appropriate for a person’s role and access privileges is included in reporting and visualization. Fine grained, automatic, policy-based classification using patent-pending SmartTags™ technology makes certain that as the environment changes in real-time the access rights and views are always correct.

Reporting Categories and Uses

All reports can be scheduled to occur once or on a periodic basis so that you can see data for a certain point of time. Once a report is created it can be exported to standard formats such pdf, csv, or txt for further analysis. EVM also allows you to view and subscribe to RSS feeds about your virtual infrastructure such as lifecycle events, discovered VMs, VM formats, and VM power events. Some of the available report categories are shown below.

• Configuration Management reports allow you to view hardware, application, network, service, user account, operating system, and snapshot information for Virtual Machines, Hosts, Management Systems, Clusters, Resource Pools, and Storage Locations.
• Migration readiness reports allow you to see information specifically related to requirements for VM migration.
• Operations reports provide the ability to look at free space on registered and unregistered Virtual Machines and power states for Virtual Machines. See which offline Virtual Machines have snapshots or have never been analyzed.
• Use VM Sprawl reports to be aware of VM atrophy and power status, as well as disk usage and waste
• Relationship reports show Virtual Machine, Folder, and Cluster relationships.
• Event reports allow you to see operations and configuration management events.
• Use VDI reports to view Virtual Desktop Infrastructure reports, centered on desktop virtualization.

From the EVM Console, you can view and customize reports to be used and viewed in multiple formats. In addition to the provided reports, you can also create your own suited precisely to your environment either by editing one of the current reports or using EVM’s Report Builder to write one with your own set of specifications using information stored in EVM’s Virtual Management Database™ (VMDB). EVM’s reports are role-based to guarantee that only information that is appropriate for a user’s role and access privileges is shown to the user.

Finally, the information collected in reports can be used with EVM policies to control and automate operations in your virtual infrastructure.

EVM Reporting Highlights

• Customizable, role-based views make sure only the appropriate information goes to the right person
• Over 100+ out of the Box Reports provide immediate results
• Comprehensive infrastructure reporting including configuration, hardware, software, network, and storage
• Resource reports and graphs covering usage, capacity, and chargeback enable resource management
• Full VM management reporting including VM lifecycle, retirement, free space, baselining, drift, VM events, and snapshots
• Reports can be scheduled to run automatically freeing administrators from manual report generation
• Fine grained RSS Feeds with direct link to report output enable quick distribution of information
• Easy to use editor makes new report creation quick and easy
• Dynamic Virtual Timelines™ with filters enable rapid troubleshooting
• Export to pdf, csv, and txt allows the rich information to be imported in Excel, Visio, and other applications

Analytics

EVM analytics provide organizations with a rich insight into their virtual infrastructure configurations, capacity, and usage. Automated summarization of key capacity data along with utilization trend analysis allows users to quickly identify current and future bottlenecks of the environment. Leveraging EVM categorization capabilities enables users to get an extremely precise understanding of the allocation and usage of the virtual environment. Correlating usage information and configuration events, provides a unique and extremely efficient approach to understand how configuration changes are impacting the global virtual infrastructure.

Visualization

EVM provides powerful visualization capabilities and leverages Web 2.0 technologies to create a rich, graphical experience. The EVM Console supports mashups of information from EVM such as VM discovery, security, policy, and usage information combined with external sources of information such as RSS feeds. The EVM Console provides role-based views with a high degree of customization.

EVM’s unique Virtual Timeline™ supports a user-friendly, time-based presentation of infrastructure events, including configuration events and discovery, operations events such as start and stop, and policy events. This view of events enables administrators, operators, and users to see events in a temporal context showing what was happening to a particular VM or a cluster during a specific interval.

Patent-pending Virtual Thumbnails™ create an intuitive visual representation of information associated with the virtual infrastructure and virtual machines, including status, lifecycle stage, and level of policy compliance.