DBH Insights reads inventory, capacity, health and performance from one or more vCenters and turns it into a live dashboard, a topology map, failure-impact answers, cluster capacity totals and 27 exportable sheets — without your credentials ever leaving your computer.
The app needs the free DBH Insights Helper running on your computer. Here's why.
New in v0.5.0
The numbers you used to work out in Excel after every export — now right on the screen.
A totals row pinned to the bottom of every table. It covers all pages and follows your filter, so filter vInfo to one cluster and the totals follow.
Turn a sheet into a summary: one row per cluster, host, datastore, power state, guest OS or VLAN, with a count and totals for each group.
One row per cluster comparing what the hosts provide with what the VMs are assigned, under Overview and in the Excel export.
Features
Point it at your vCenters and get the answers operations, capacity and audit teams keep asking for.
Hosts, cores, storage, VMs, physical memory and the vCPU-to-core ratio at a glance, with the fullest datastores and every cluster. Save it as a standalone HTML report.
Hosts grouped by cluster, their datastores, and a line for every mount. Hover to isolate one path; download the map to share it.
"What if this host or datastore fails?" See the VMs that depend on it, whether HA can restart them, whether the cluster has room, and storage only that host can reach.
VMs, CPU, memory, disks, partitions, networks, snapshots, tools, hosts, clusters, resource pools, datastores, switches and licences. Sort, filter, total and group them, plus a capacity summary for every cluster.
The newest CPU, memory, network and disk sample for every host and every powered-on VM, straight from vCenter's performance counters.
Flags hosts with no NTP server or a stopped NTP service, VMs whose folder doesn't match their name, CD-ROMs left connected, and active snapshots.
Every sheet in a single XLSX workbook with frozen headers, filters and real dates, built in your browser.
See every vCenter together or one at a time. If one can't be reached, you get a warning and the rest still load.
Send any read-only REST or SOAP request to vCenter and read the raw response — handy before building a sheet of your own.
Tour
Screens from a lab with two vCenters, four ESXi hosts and 31 VMs.
How it works
Browsers can't reach a vCenter on your network or trust its self-signed certificate, and you shouldn't hand your vCenter password to a website. So a small helper on your own computer does the talking, and the website never sees your password.
Your computer
DBH Insights Helper
Holds the vCenter sessions and passes read-only requests through.
A small desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. It lives in the menu bar or system tray and starts listening on 127.0.0.1.
Enter each vCenter's address and account once and click Save & test. Passwords go straight into the operating system's keychain.
The app finds the helper by itself, shows which vCenters are connected, and loads the dashboard.
Open the app
Security
REST requests are GET only and SOAP is limited to a short list of read operations. There's no setting that turns writes on.
Credentials live in macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager or Linux Secret Service. They're never written to disk or sent to the website.
The helper listens on 127.0.0.1 alone and rejects requests addressed to any other host name, which blocks DNS-rebinding tricks.
Only websites on the helper's allow list can use it. Everyone else is told the helper exists, and nothing more.
Download
Free, and the only thing you install. Pick your platform, add your vCenters, and the website does the rest.
Release notes
New features, improvements and fixes, newest first.
Start the helper, add a vCenter, and open the app.
Open DBH Insights