We are looking to provide performance data and graphs for certain metrics to our business groups. If done weekly, we keep a pretty accurate amount of data via graphs, as the data only normalizes in 1-hour increments - still allowing both us and the group to see 'most' of the usage peaks.
But if we try to use monthly reporting the data becomes almost useless in graph form - as it uses 12-hour increments. This loses 90% of the peaks and valleys, dropping the value of the graph to nil. The monthly graphs for the same metrics within vCenter still show all the peaks and valleys, even if it becomes almost impossible to discern some of them - but at least you can still see that there are changes in activity/load.
Is there any way to force a graph to use a different # of data points, normalization ranges, etc? When zooming in to specific periods the normalized data changes from 12-hours, to 1-hour, to 5-minutes. So the more granular data is obviously there in the system still (so that is good).
The goal is to use this product for all of our VMware reporting. Having to take screenshots of individual virtual machine performance pages from within vCenter because I can't report on the monthly metrics from VMAN accurately is a giant pain in the.... well you get the picture.
Thanks,
Brian