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vSphere 8 saw the release of new metrics to capture the power consumption of a host and virtual machine workloads. In Update 1, IT admins can examine the individual power consumption and power metrics for each VM. Application owners can obtain more data to aggregate the VM power consumption to better understand the energy efficiency of workloads.