I have been trying many different ways to create a subset of datastores for reporting in both the customer and UI. I have tried adding tags, creating a group in opsUI, and even tagging in vsphere, but I can't get the solution I believe vcops5.8 is capable of (this is the vapp). What I need to to be able to create a total value (possible smetric) of specific datastores associated with EMC arrays, while also showing individual and total values for associated VMs across many metrics.
No matter what I try, the attributes of the resource kinds or resources inherit those of the parent. The parent is either a container, environment, department or folder, which doesn't contain the attributes I want to present in a single dashboard through either the opsUI or customUI. I've cloned attribute packages and tried to add new resources associated with those packages without success.
Can someone please steer me in the right direction..... I'm aimlessly wandering in hopes of finding a reasonable and repeatable solution.
Thanks in advance for any advice......