A super metric is an administrator-created custom metric based on a mathematical formula from existing metrics that can then be applied via policy. A super metric can be derived from either a single object or multiple objects across multiple environments.
A super metric is usually defined when an administrator notices a gap in the available metrics on a given object. For example, an administrator notices high CPU ready on a virtual machine and is curious as to whether it may be common across all VMs on the host, or even the vSphere cluster. The administrator would like to see what the average CPU ready value is for all VMs across the cluster to see if this has changed recently, or has progressively been getting worse.
Unfortunately, this metric is not available on a vSphere host or cluster (although other useful metrics may) and therefore...