A super metric in VMware vRealize Operations (a key component of VMware Cloud Foundation's operational intelligence) is a custom metric created by an administrator using a mathematical formula. This formula can operate on existing metrics from multiple objects. To calculate the average health of all virtual machines across different clusters, an administrator would define a super metric with a formula that aggregates the health score metric for the desired group of VMs (e.g., avg({Virtual Machine: Health|Health Score})). This newly created super metric can then be displayed on a dashboard or used in reports to meet the objective.

A. A dashboard: A dashboard is a visualization tool used to display widgets and data, including metrics. It does not create or calculate the aggregate metric itself; it only presents it.

C. A symptom: A symptom defines a specific condition (e.g., CPU usage > 90%) that evaluates to true or false. It is a building block for alerts, not a tool for calculating an average value.

D. An alert: An alert is a notification triggered when a defined set of symptoms becomes true for an object. It is used for event-based monitoring, not for calculating a continuous aggregate metric.

1. VMware vRealize Operations Documentation - Super Metrics: "You can create a super metric to calculate a new metric value based on existing metric values of an object... The formula can be a simple expression or a complex expression that uses multiple operators and functions." This directly supports the use of a super metric for custom calculations like an average.

Source: VMware vRealize Operations Documentation

"Configuring Super Metrics". (Reference applicable to vROps versions 8.x

relevant to the VCF context).

2. VMware vRealize Operations Documentation - Dashboards: "Dashboards are a collection of configurable widgets that provide a way to view and manage your environment." This confirms that a dashboard is for visualization

not calculation.

Source: VMware vRealize Operations Documentation

"Managing Dashboards in vRealize Operations".

3. VMware vRealize Operations Documentation - Alerts: "Alerts are generated in vRealize Operations when a specific event

condition

or breach of a threshold occurs in your environment... An alert is based on one or more symptoms." This clarifies that alerts are for notifying about specific conditions

not for creating aggregate metrics.

Source: VMware vRealize Operations Documentation

"Monitoring Alerts in vRealize Operations".