{"id":1538,"date":"2023-05-19T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:24:02","slug":"vmware-aria-operations-custom-energy-consumption-dashboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"VMware Aria Operations &#8211; Custom Energy Consumption Dashboards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In today&#8217;s global landscape, <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong>sustainability<\/strong><\/mark> has become an imperative priority for organizations worldwide. Executives at every level are fully dedicated to reducing their carbon footprint across all aspects of their operations and seeking innovative ways to achieve their environmental objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VMware plays a pivotal role in assisting customers in making significant advancements towards reducing energy costs and carbon emissions associated with their digital infrastructure. VMware solutions not only provide responsive scalability and simplified management but, most importantly, offer a pathway to achieve decarbonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the introduction of <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">VMware Aria Operations<\/mark> 8.6 (formerly known as vRealize Operations), groundbreaking sustainability dashboards found their way into the product. These dashboards are designed to highlight the carbon emissions saved through compute virtualization while also offering optimization strategies to reduce carbon footprints by identifying idle workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this post I describe how to create additional custom dashboards in VMware Aria Operations with focus on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">current power usage<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">energy consumption<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">energy costs<\/mark><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">carbon emissions<\/mark><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Use Case<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My use case is to get a quick overview of the mentioned energy related data at all levels of the virtual infrastructure, <strong>Datacenters<\/strong>, <strong>Clusters<\/strong>, <strong>Hosts<\/strong>, <strong>Virtual Machines<\/strong>. I would like to see that information for the <strong>current month &#8211; Month to Date (MTD)<\/strong> time frame &#8211; beginning of the month up to now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The fundamental parts of my dashboards are <strong>Aria Operations Views<\/strong> as they provide an easy way to transform the collected data &#8211; in my case I need the <code>sum()<\/code> transformation to summarize values over a period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-7-1024x692.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-7-1024x692.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-7-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-7-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-7-1536x1038.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-7-2048x1384.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 01: View &#8211; Transformation options.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The next crucial part is the Time Settings option. This option provides a wide range of settings related to the time range applied to the selected metrics or properties. The following picture shows the settings needed to specify the MTD time range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-8-1024x414.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-8-1024x414.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-8-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-8-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-8-1536x622.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-8.png 1932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 02: View &#8211; Time Settings options.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second important construct in Aria Operations are Custom Groups. Custom Groups are not only ideal for dynamically grouping objects using certain criteria, it is also a perfect way to add additional properties to all objects within a group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am using the <strong>Custom Group<\/strong> construct to add <code>Energy Rate<\/code> and <code>CO2perkWh<\/code> values to ESXi Host Systems running in a certain locations. The next picture shows the Custom Property option within Custom Group configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-9-1024x709.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-9-1024x709.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-9-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-9-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-9-1536x1063.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-9-2048x1417.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 03: Custom Groups &#8211; assigning custom properties option.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As already described in one of my <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/?p=1456\">previous blog posts<\/a>, VMware Aria Operations collects all relevant power and energy related metrics, some of them need to be activated in the respective policy. The <strong>metrics used in this scenario<\/strong> are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Cluster Compute Resource: Power|Power (Watt)\nHost System: Power|Total Energy (Wh)\nHost System: Power|Power (Watt)\nVirtual Machine: Power|Total Energy (Wh)\nVirtual Machine: Power|Power (Watt)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>There are literally thousands of metrics and properties and still sometimes a specific metric is missing. The first step is always to check the Aria Operations policy for disabled metrics and if there is still something missing &#8211;&gt; <strong>Super Metrics to the rescue<\/strong>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-18-1024x646.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-18-1024x646.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-18-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-18-768x485.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-18-1536x970.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-18-2048x1293.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 04: Activating metrics in the policy.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am using Super Metrics in my scenario to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>calculate the <code>Energy Costs<\/code> metric (at the Host System level) based on <code>Host System: Power|Total Energy (Wh)<\/code> and the <code>Energy Rate<\/code> custom property (adjusted to Wh value)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>calculate the <code>Carbon emissions<\/code> metric (at the Host System level) based on <code>Host System: Power|Total Energy (Wh)<\/code> and the <code>tk-CO2perkWh<\/code> custom property<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>calculate the <code>sum of Energy Costs<\/code> on all relevant levels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>calculate <code>sum of Carbon Emissions<\/code> on all relevant levels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>calculate <code>sum of Energy Consumption<\/code> on all relevant levels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The next picture show as an example the <code>tk-EnergyCosts<\/code> Super Metric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-10-1024x346.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1563\" width=\"840\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-10-1024x346.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-10-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-10-768x259.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-10-1536x519.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-10.png 1676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 05: Super Metric example.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With all this pre-work (described on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tkopton\/aria-operations-content\/tree\/main\/Energy-Dashboards\">GitHub<\/a>) I have created following dashboards to vizualize the energy related information from the initial use case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first dashboard shows the <strong>current<\/strong> (or last available) <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">power usage<\/mark><\/strong> metrics. The navigation through this dashboard is described in the first widget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-11-1024x508.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-11-1024x508.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-11-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-11-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-11-1536x762.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-11-2048x1016.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 06: Current power usage dashboard.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second dashboard focuses on <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">energy consumption since the beginning of the month<\/mark><\/strong>. As described in the &#8220;Info and Navigation&#8221; widget, the configuration of the buckets can be changed in the corresponding view to better meet the actual values in your environment. This applies to all dashboards and views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-16-1024x515.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-16-1024x515.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-16-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-16-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-16-1536x772.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-16-2048x1029.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 07: Energy consumption dashboard.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The third dashboard shows the <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">energy costs since the beginning of the month<\/mark><\/strong>. As mentioned before, the energy rate value can be easily configured via Custom Groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-17-1024x516.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-17-1024x516.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-17-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-17-768x387.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-17-1536x773.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-17-2048x1031.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 08: Energy costs dashboard.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth and last dashboard vizualizes the <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">carbon emissions since the beginning of the month<\/mark><\/strong>. Similar to the energy rate, the CO2 per kWh value can be also configured via Custom Groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-15-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-15-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-15-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-15-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-15-1536x738.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-15-2048x983.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 09: Carbon emissions dashboard.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The content can be downloaded directly from my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tkopton\/aria-operations-content\/tree\/main\/Energy-Dashboards\">GitHub repo<\/a> or via VMware Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following picture shows the relations between the various custom content objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"831\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-19-1024x831.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-19-1024x831.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-19-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-19-768x623.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-19-1536x1246.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-19.png 2014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 10: Custom content objects.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy dashboarding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Stay<\/mark><\/strong> <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f5d800\" class=\"has-inline-color\">safe<\/mark><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasKopton\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasKopton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s global landscape, sustainability has become an imperative priority for organizations worldwide. 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