The VM Activity Overview tool displays several performance metrics for all running virtual machines and cloud VM instances, and for the host system. This provides an overview of system resources used by individual virtual machines and the host system.

To display the VM Activity Overview tool, open the global Tools menu and click Activities. The VM Activity Overview window is shown.

• To show metrics for all virtual machines, including those that are not running, right-click the list of virtual machines and select List All Virtual Machines.
• To show metrics for cloud VMs, right-click the list of virtual machines and select Show Cloud Virtual Machines.
• To configure the set of metrics to be shown, click Columns in the toolbar. You can then sort the list of virtual machines by a particular metric.
• To see more performance information for a virtual machine, select the VM name and click VM Activity in the toolbar. The VM Activity tab of the Session Information dialog is shown, see .