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vSphere 8 introduces a new feature in this release namely, green metrics for monitoring power consumption for hosts and virtual machines. These metrics allow administrators to monitor the energy consumption of the vSphere infrastructure and determine its energy efficiency, based on the energy consumption within the data center.
These three new metrics track the following: