An administrator was asked to prepare a report that groups VMs into buckets by CPU...

The correct view type is Distribution View . The requirement is not simply to list VMs or plot a time-series trend; it is to group VM metric values into defined ranges or “buckets” so the administrator can visualize how many VMs fall into each CPU Ready % band. VCF Operations documentation defines Distribution Views as views that provide aggregated data about resource distribution in the monitored environment. When used in dashboards, the administrator can click a section of a pie chart, bar chart, or donut chart to view the list of objects filtered by that selected segment . This directly fits the requested CPU Ready % spread visualization. The same configuration supports Manual Distribution , where the administrator specifies the number of buckets and the minimum and maximum values of each bucket . That is the exact model required for ranges such as 0–2%, 2–5%, 5–10%, and greater than 10%. List View is tabular, Trend View is time-based, and Summary View is not intended for bucketed metric distribution. Reference topic: Objective 4.10 – Creating Custom Dashboards, Views and Reports / Distribution Views / Manual Distribution Buckets .