NetApp DII: VM Analyzer

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NetApp DII = NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights

Official blog link -

Simplify virtual infrastructure management with VM Analyzer | NetApp Blog

- and there is a demo video on that page too.


My Analysis

i: Navigation

Login to DII and navigate:

Observability > Explore > VM Analyzer


ii: VM Analyzer default view
  • Filter By:
    • Application
    • Virtual Machine
    • Volume
    • Internal Volume
      • Filtering information (i): Filtering supports type ahead with exact match. Doesn't support Exclude, wildcard and None filters.
      • Additional filters you can use:
        • Cluster Name
        • Datastore
        • Host
        • Storage
        • Storage Pool
        • VMDK
        • Virtual Center IP
  • Protocol:
    • All
    • FC
    • iSCSI
    • NAS
  • Connection Size:
    • IOPS - Read (IO/s)
    • IOPS - Total (IO/s)
    • IOPS - Write (IO/s)
    • Latency - Read (ms)
    • Latency - Total (ms)
    • Latency - Write (ms)
    • Throughput - Read (MiB/s)
    • Throughput - Total (MiB/s)
    • Throughput - Write (MiB/s)
  • Metric Displayed:
    • {same as above}
  • Group VMs by:
    • Automatic
    • Host
    • Application
    • VM (No Grouping)
"To get started, select an application or device by using the filters above.
Gain end-to-end visibility (from virtual machines to physical storage) allowing you to quickly identify, understand and detect root issues and causes."

iii: Filtering by Application

I think filtering by Application is the most useful filter. You'll need to make sure your Virtual Machines are correctly assigned to Application for this to work.

To help see what Applications you have in DII, count of VMs per Application, and VM details you can easily create a simple dashboard with these three table widgets.
  • Create filters for:
    • *.application.name
    • *.virtualmachine.guestState
    • *.virtualmachine.powerState
  • Table Widget 1:
    • Name: List of Applications
    • Columns:
      • Table Row Grouping
    • Query Type: Metric
    • Object: Application
    • Display: (Dashboard Time)
    • Filter by Attribute:
    • Filter by Metric:
    • Group by: Application
  • Table Widget 2:
    • Name: Count of VMs by applications.name
    • Columns: 
      • applications.name
    • Query Type: Metric
    • Object: VirtualMachine
    • Display: (Dasboard Time)
    • Filter by Attribute:
      • applications.name : $Application
      • guestState : $guestState
      • powerState: $powerState
    • Filter by Metric:
    • Group by: applications.name
  • Table Widget 3:
    • Name: VM Details
    • Columns:
      • applications.name
      • capacity.total
      • capacity.used
      • cpuCoSchedulingDelayTimePercent.total
      • cpuTotalWaitTimePercent.local
      • dataStore.name
      • diskLatency.total
      • dnsName
      • guestState
      • powerState
      • swapRate.totalMaxRate
      • waitingToBeScheduledTimePercent.total
    • Query Type: Metric
    • Display: (Dashboard Time)
    • Filter by Attribute:
      • applications.name : $Application
      • guestState : $guestState
      • powerState: $powerState
    • Filter by Metric:
    • Group by: Virtual Machine
iv: Demo:

Watch the demo video from -


Data Infrastructure Insights - VM Analyzer allows simplified troubleshooting, simplifies investigation, pinpoints root causes (like configuration changes, resource contention ...), and helps you resolve problems with confidence.


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