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Only show the volume I clicked on.

Sorry for the juvenile title. 

I was asked to put this in here as a feature request (Case 00311064). 

With classic charts, you search for a node, view the Node Details page, scroll to a specific volume, click on that volume, view the Volumes Detail page, and see that the charts on that page (Volume Size, Average Disk Space Used, Percent Disk Space Used Today, etc.) show that information for the volume whose detail you selected. See attachment classic.jpg.  

If you migrate to Modern charts (Settings --> All Settings --> Web Console Settings --> Classic Chart Settings --> Migrate button) then repeat the above, you get the selected volume in the charts in addition to *all* of the VMFS volumes on the underlying vmware server.  See attachment migrated.png.

It's all the same URL/view being displayed in both cases. 

According to SW support, this is intended behavior when using Modern charts, since it aligns with the push in the product towards AppStack views of everything. 

My thoughts are that if I want to view multiple objects together in AppStack/PerfStack, then I will click on the buttons to do so.  This behavior seems to conflict with expected behavior from the older charts and behavior from previous versions. 

  • If I’m viewing information about a single Volume, don’t show me other volumes, even if they are hosted by the same VCenter.  If I want to view VCenter volumes, I would navigate to that server instead.
  • This specifically isn’t a complaint about the format/utility/etc. of the new PerfStack style charts themselves.  But if I want to view multiple objects in Perfstack, let me click on one of the many PerfStack links and manually add in the objects I want to view. 
  • Showing all of these volumes by default makes viewing chart information about the specific volume useless due to the skew on the Y-axis. I can't see the actual size of my C:\ which is less than 1TB if the Y axis shows the datastore volumes which are 20-30TB. 
  • It’s bad usability to have to click 20+ times to remove all of the superfluous volumes to see a proper chart for the one volume. 
  • If it’s a design decision, why isn’t this consistent with other objects?  Clicking on an interface on a vmware guest does not show all interfaces on that vcenter. 
  • Showing all VMFS volumes probably isn’t what was intended when viewing objects like Physical Memory or Virtual Memory.  See attachments virtmem.png and physmem.png. 

This still seems like a bug to me, or at least an ill-advised design change.  This feature request is to revert back to the seemingly obvious behavior of "show me the thing that I clicked on".  Adding AppStack stuff to this chart widget does not add any relevant information, is inconsistently implemented, and is bad UI.

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  • We have the same issue in 2020.2

    I have raised a case with SW yesterday about it, but it sounds like expected behaviour (which is not very useful). It would be ok if it just showed vmfs volume on which the actual volume resides, but showing all vmfs volumes from the host is pointless.
    It adds a lot of time to opening 'Volume Details' page, plus makes graphs unreadable.

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  • We have the same issue in 2020.2

    I have raised a case with SW yesterday about it, but it sounds like expected behaviour (which is not very useful). It would be ok if it just showed vmfs volume on which the actual volume resides, but showing all vmfs volumes from the host is pointless.
    It adds a lot of time to opening 'Volume Details' page, plus makes graphs unreadable.

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