vCenter Operations Manager - The GEO Dashboard Widget

In this video you will see how to group Resources by GEO location and activate the dashboard widget. Depending on your environment, you might want to group some or all of your resources according to their physical location. When resources are grouped according to their physical location, you can see the health of all of the resources in a particular place. To group resources by their physical location, you must activate the geographical location feature, create values for the GEO Location tag, and assign the resources that you want to track to GEO Location tag values.

1. Activate the Geographical Location Feature - To group resources by location, you must activate the geographical location feature in vCenter Operations Manager.
2. Create a GEO Location Tag Value - Before you can assign resources to a location, you must create that location as a value of the GEO Location tag and define its position on the map. Create tag values for each of your office locations.
3. Assign a Resource to a GEO Location Tag Value - You define a resource's location by assigning it to a value of the GEO Location tag.
4. View the Resource Map - You can use the world map on the Geographical tab on the Environment Overview page to see the health of the resources at some or all of your defined locations. The GEO widget shows a map similar to the map on the Geographical tab. You can add the GEO widget to any dashboard.