Thanks Tom - I have filed request #90453 to track this.
What kind of report are you trying to generate when you go back in time like this?
One point to note is that although the map view shows the historical state and performance of the virtual infrastructure, if you select items in this view and generate a report (e.g. "export" to excel) those reports will be based on the latest observed state of that object (i.e. not the state of the object back in time that you were looking at in the map view)
Jon
Hi, Jon,
In this particular case, I'm trying to figure out which VMs were running on a datastore at the time of an outage. The Map view is useful from a sysadmin perspective but less so from a reporting perspective. In point of fact, it could use some enhancement with regard to how the objects are presented. It's hard to tell which particular objects are being shown at a glance--you generally have to hover the mouse over each object to see what it is.
Thanks,
Tom
It's hard to tell which particular objects are being shown at a glance--you generally have to hover the mouse over each object to see what it is.
Tom, would you say it's difficult to identify objects in the map because you can't see the full name? Or, are there other difficulties?
Not being able to see the full object name is probably the major issue. Another issue is with how the icons are arranged and organized, however. Since the icons are locked into a static 3x3 grid, it's impossible to see more than nine objects of a particular class at once, which also makes it difficult to get a larger perspective on the environment.
Tom,
There are some map density improvements in the 4.1 release that is now GA. That should helps to see more objects at once. Let us know what you think.
Thanks
Jon
It's definitely more useful than it was, but being unable to see more than the first five or six characters in an object name still limits the utility of the view.
