Visualization of resources in a data center

A computer-readable storage, which is nonvolatile, having instructions thereon for executing a method of visualizing resources in one or more data centers, the method comprising:

• providing an ordered list of resources in the one or more data centers;
• applying a locality-preserving, space-filling transformation on the ordered list of resources so as to generate a transformed list of resources;
• applying a quantitative metric describing a usage characteristic associated with the ordered list of resources, wherein the quantitative metric is applied to the transformed list of resources after the locality-preserving, space-filling transformation is applied;
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• generating a heat map representation of the ordered list of resources after the locality-preserving, space-filling transformation with the quantified metric applied so as to visualize a correlation between the ordered list of resources and the quantitative metric by changing an appearance between resources that exceed a threshold associated with the quantitative metric and those that do not exceed the threshold.

A system for visualizing resources in one or more data centers, comprising:

• a plurality of resources in the one or more data centers;
• a resource monitoring component collecting quantitative metrics describing a usage characteristic associated with the resources;
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• a resource viewing tool that receives an ordered list of the plurality of resources and applies a locality-preserving, space-filling transformation on the ordered list and applies the quantitative metrics after the locality-preserving, space-filling transformation has been applied so as to visualize, in a heat map, a correlation between the ordered list of the plurality of resources and the quantitative metrics by making a look-and-feel of the resources that satisfy the quantitative metrics appear different than a look-and-feel of resources that do not satisfy the quantitative metrics so as to display a first group of resources that satisfy the quantitative metrics and a second group of resources that do not satisfy the quantitative metrics in a same integrated graphic display.