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The Home view dashboard gives you statistics and an overview of the resources you are managing on the platform. |
The Home view dashboard displays the cloud resource usage on the Metrics, Hybrid, and Optimization tabs. By default it is the first screen you will see when you log in. To return to this view from any other screen, click the Home "Q" icon. By default the Metrics tab displays; enable the Hybrid and Optimization tabs on Configuration View#Dashboard.
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This section describes the Optimization tab of the default dashboard |
On the default Home view dashboard, the Optimization tab aims to help you make best use of your cloud resources.
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For more details of a VM or other entity, click on the arrow symbol beside the VM details.
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To jump straight to a virtual datacenter or VM double click on its label or name in the Virtual datacenters or VMs a table. |
Selecting an enterprise
To display the dashboard statistics of an enterprise, click on the enterprise in the Enterprise list. The name of the selected enterprise will display above the dashboard panels.
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To switch to another enterprise to administer that enterprise, click the switch enterprise button beside a name in the enterprise list. The name of the enterprise that you are currently using will be displayed beneath your username in the top right-hand corner of the screen. When you log out and log in again, the enterprise will not be reset by the platform. All your actions with virtual datacenters, virtual appliances, VMs and VM templates will apply to the current enterprise until you switch to another enterprise. Note that if your environment has a user management system, such as LDAP or OpenID, then the enterprise will be reset on login.
Metrics panel
The metrics panel provides an overview of the resources an enterprise is using in the platform. Select an enterprise or switch to it to display the metrics for the enterprise.
Enterprise resources
This panel shows statistics of the resources used by the current or selected enterprise and/or the selected virtual datacenters in all the accessible datacenters. The view will depend on the user's scope and privileges. See Enterprise Statistics and Virtual Datacenter Statistics for more information.
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Privilege: Display enterprise statistics, Display enterprise limits in statistics |
By default, the statistics are updated at the interval set in Configuration View on the Dashboard page of the System Properties tab with the "Refresh interval for dashboard" parameter.
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Virtual CPUs used by VMs that are currently deployed
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VM disks that are created on the hypervisor datastore. This includes non-persistent VM system disks and ESXi hard disks.
These disks will be deleted when the VM is undeployed (GB)
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To view usage and limits for a single virtual datacenter, select Virtual datacenters and then select one.
Key:
- Green = used
- Orange = soft limit
- Red = hard limit
Virtual appliances
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Virtual datacenters
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Events
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This is a condensed view of the Events view logs. It is controlled with the same privileges as the Events view, so if the user has no events privileges, no events window will display here. Otherwise, the window will display all events for the enterprise or all events, depending on the user's role, privileges and scope.
You can filter the events by severity, including All, ERROR, INFO, and WARN.
Click on an event to open the event in a popup.
Last deployed VMs
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Virtual machines - CPU usage greater than 80 percent
This panel lists the VMs with an average CPU usage of over 80% in the last 30 days. It displays the following details:
Virtual machine label
Minimum CPU usage
Average CPU usage
Maximum CPU usage
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Virtual machines - RAM usage greater than 80 percent
This panel lists the VMs with an average RAM usage of over 80% in the last 30 days. It displays the following details:
Virtual machine label
Minimum RAM usage
Average RAM usage
Maximum RAM usage
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Virtual machines - longest time deployed
This widget lists the VMs with the highest time deployed on the platform, for VMs that are currently in the ON, OFF or PAUSED states. The panel displays the following details:
Virtual machine label
Virtual machine name
Time deployed
State
You can filter the display by Username.
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Options: Filter minimum number of days
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Virtual machines - CPU usage less than 30 percent
This panel lists the VMs with an average CPU usage of less than 30% in the last 30 days. It displays the following details:
Virtual machine label
Minimum CPU usage
Average CPU usage
Maximum CPU usage
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Virtual machines - RAM usage less than 30 percent
This panel lists the VMs with an average RAM usage under 30% in the last 30 days. It displays the following details:
Virtual machine label
Minimum RAM usage
Average RAM usage
Maximum RAM usage
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Unused public IPs
This panel lists the public, floating and NAT IPs that have been reserved by the enterprise but are not in use. It displays the following details:
IP address
Network
Virtual datacenter
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To jump to an IP address, double-click on it. |
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Options: Provider selector (public cloud provider or private clouds); Provider filter.
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Unused load balancers
This panel lists load balancers that have been created by the enterprise in the provider but are not in use. It displays the following details:
Name
Algorithm
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