The Virtual Resources menu option displays a summary of your virtual resources with customizable reports. The Summary page displays an overview of all VDCs and VMs, reports for new VMs and deleted VMs, and trending reports for network usage, CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage.

You can manage the following virtual resources:

• VDCs

• Application Containers

• VMs

• VM Action Requests

• Images

• Port Groups

• DV Port Groups

• Resource Pools

• Datastores

• Datastore Clusters

During VM provisioning, you can associate a VM with a virtual data center (VDC). When you create a service request, you can choose the VDC on which the VM is provisioned. You can view a list of VDCs available for a group and choose the required VDC when provisioning the VM.

You can view available VDCs and their details by choosing vDCs under Virtual Resources.

The VDCs report displays all available VDCs, as well as the following information:

• Cloud

• vDC

• Type

• Lock State

• Total VMs

• Active VMs

• Custom Categories

• Status

• Tag

You can view additional details about a VDC by clicking on the row with the VDC and clicking View Details.

Application containers are a templatized approach to provisioning applications for end users. Each application container is a collection of VMware virtual machines (VMs) and/or bare metal servers (BMs) with an internal private network that is based on rules specified by the administrator. An application container can have one or more VMs and BMs and can be secured by a fencing gateway (for example, a Virtual Secure Gateway) to the external or public cloud.

Administrators can create one or more application container templates with the appropriate policies, workflows, and templates. The application container template determines how the application is provisioned for the end user.

You can view all available application containers and all associated VMs, bare metal servers, network tier mappings, L4-L7 services, and contracts. You can view additional details about an application container by clicking the row with the application container and clicking View Details.

You can perform post-provisioning lifecycle management actions that are permitted by your administrator. You can view the entire list of VMs provisioned using service requests under a user group. You can view the VMs report by choosing VMs under Virtual Resources.

The VMs report lists all available VMs, as well as the following information:

• Cloud

• VM-ID

• VM Label

• VM Name

• Host Name

• IP Address

• Image ID

• Power State

• VM Protected

• Group Name

• VDC

• Category

• Provisioned Time

• Scheduled Termination Time

• Last Status Update

• Guest OS Type

• VM Annotation

• Custom Attributes

• Assigned To User

• Users Can Access

• Users Can Manage

• Tags

• VMM Cloud

You can view additional details about a VM by clicking the row with the VM and clicking View Details.

Note	The VMs report no longer displays the vCenter VM ID and the vCenter IP fields in End User Portal versions 6.5 and later.

You can view all available VM action requests and their details by choosing VM Action Requests under Virtual Resources.

You can also view VM action requests associated with a specific VM by choosing VM Action Requests on the VM's details page.

The VM Action Requests report displays all available VM action requests, as well as the following information:

• VM ID

• Action ID

• User Name

• Comment

• Schedule Time

• Status

An image is a template that can be used to create and provision virtual machines (VMs). An image typically includes a specified operating system and a configuration that provides virtual counterparts to hardware components. Images offer a secure way of preserving a VM's configuration that you want to deploy multiple times.

You can view all available VM images and their details by choosing Images under Virtual Resources. The image IDs in the Images report have been assigned to you or your group. You can use an image ID to provision a new VM. Additionally you can select and delete any image IDs that you do not require.

The Images report displays all available images, as well as the following information:

• ID

• Cloud

• Image ID

• Parent Node

• Datacenter

• Guest OS

• VMware Tools Installed

• VMware Tools Version

• VM Version

• Platform

• Architechture

• Number of CPUs

• Memory (MB)

• Provisioned Disk (GB)

• Image Location

• CPU Reservation (MHz)

• CPU Limit (MHz)

• CPU Shares

• Memory Reservation (MHz)

• Memory Limit (MHz)

• Memory Shares

• Uncommitted Storage (GB)

• Group/User

To access this option, your administrator must provide permission in your user role, or in the End User Self-Service policy in your group's VDC.

You can view all available port groups and their details by choosing Port Groups under Virtual Resources.

The Port Groups report displays all available port groups and the following information:

• Host Node

• vSwitch Name

• Port Group Name

• Port Group Type

• VLAN ID

• Group/User

To access this option, your administrator must provide permission in your user role, or in the End User Self-Service policy in your group's VDC.

A distributed virtual (DV) port group is a port group associated with a distributed switch. It specifies port configuration options for each member port. A DV port group defines how a connection is made through the switch to the network. You can view all available DV port groups and their details by choosing DV Port Groups under Virtual Resources.

The DV Port Groups report displays all available DV port groups and the following information:

• Host Node

• vSwitch Name

• Port Group Name

• Port Group Type

• VLAN ID

• Promiscuous Mode (Accept)

• Group/User

You can view available clouds and related configuration information. The resource details are at the host node level. You can view the Resource Pools report by choosing Resource Pools under Virtual Resources.

The Resource Pools report displays all available resource pools, as well as the following information:

• ID

• Cloud

• Datacenter Name

• Owner

• Resource Pool Name

• Parent

• Status

• CPU Configured Reservation (MHz)

• CPU Limit (MHz)

• CPU Used Reservation (MHz)

• CPU Expandable Reservation

• Memory Configured Reservation

• Memory Limit (MHz)

• Memory Used Reservation (MHz)

• Memory Expandable Reservation

• Group/User

• Tag

To access this option, your administrator must provide permission in your user role, or in the End User Self-Service policy in your group's VDC.

A datastore is the storage repository for virtual machines and their data. A datastore can be either a Network File System (NFS) or Virtual Machine File System (VMFS). Administrators can use the task library to create datastores from physical storage. Newly created and existing datastores are then used in VDC storage policies to provide a policy-based framework, from which you can select an appropriate datastore during VM provisioning. Datastores can also be identified as ISO image repositories to aid in ISO-based VM provisioning.

You can view available datastores and their details by choosing Datastores under Virtual Resources.

The Datastores report displays all available datastores and the following information:

• Cloud

• Data Store Name

• Data Center Name

• Capacity (GB)

• Free (GB)

• Free (%)

• Used (GB)

• Is Accessible

• Number of VMs

• Number of Hosts

• Extended Type

• Display Name

• Group/User

To access this option, your administrator must provide permission in your user role, or in the End User Self-Service policy in your group's VDC.

A datastore cluster is a collection of datastores with shared resources and a shared management interface. You can view available datastore clusters and their details by choosing Datastore Clusters under Virtual Resources.

The Datastore Clusters report displays all available datastore clusters and the following information:

• ID

• Cloud

• Data Center Name

• Datastore Cluster Name

• Capacity (GB)

• Free Space (GB)

• I/O Metrics

• Group/User

• Storage DRS

• Automation Level

• Utilized Space Threshold (%)

• I/O Latency

• Type

• Tag