Custom UI - Best widgets, metrics and interactions to analyze storage capacity and peaks

Hi Community,

I'm trying to create a custom dashboard which gives me a complete overview of my datacenter storage resources and peaks (Latency, IO, Usage,...).

I already build one with a Metric Graph (IOs,Latency, Usage rate kbps), Health Status of all Datastores and two Scoreboard widgets, which is quite informative but not exactly what I desired.

basically I build something like this (8.1.5.6 Storage Dashboard):

http://download3.vmware.com/vcat/vcat31_documentation_center/index.html#page/Implementation%2520Examples/4%2520Implementation%2520Examples.2.103.html

My goal is to have a single point of view that informs me about the current level of resource usage to recognize when my resources are exhausted and I better attach another storage array...

I also would like to see IO and latency peaks over a defined laps of time.

There are a lot of possibilities to set up interactions and pipe metrics through several widgets. I hope you can support me with some suggestions.

Thanks!