Display VM details
To display VM details, select a VM icon. The platform will display the control panel below the VMs with details on different tabs, such as General and NICs.
Here are some examples of VM details tabs:
The General tab contains general details including the CPU and RAM, and optional hardware profile
The NICs tab contains the details of the IP addresses of the VM.
The Storage tab contains the details of the hard disks and volumes attached to the VM
The Tags tab contains the details of the tags assigned to the VM. Tags that exist in the cloud provider are "Materialized"
Display VM metrics
To display metrics of a deployed VM with metrics enabled, click the Metrics symbol on the VM icon.
To refresh metrics data, click the circular arrows refresh button on the right.
To toggle the display of metrics, click Available metrics on the right, and select the desired metrics.
To filter metrics, click the funnel symbol. Enter the Granularity, Statistics, Period, and/or Dimensions.
Privileges: Access virtual machine metrics
To configure the display of metrics at the virtual appliance level, do these steps.
Select a Virtual appliance and go to Monitoring
Optionally configure the refresh interval. To do this, select the Refresh data every checkbox and enter a number of minutes
Choose the metrics you wish to display and filter by metric statistics.
To refresh the display with the latest data from the API, click the round arrow refresh button.
Create an alarm on a VM metric
To create an alarm on a VM metric:
Click the Create alarm icon on the metrics display
Enter the alarm Name and Description.
Optionally, enter the number of datapoints
Enter the minutes to evaluate the datapoints for. We recommend that you use all the datapoints for a longer period of time, such as 60 minutes
Select the Statistic, Formula, and Threshold for alarm activation
Click Save
The platform will display the alarm symbol on the VM icon and in the VM list.
If the alarm is activated, the platform will highlight the alarm symbol with a different color.
To display and manage your alarms, go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters → Alarms.
You can also use create alerts to notify you with emails when alarms are activated and use alerts to trigger action plans. See Control view for cloud alerts and action plans for more details.