Users Guide

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• Resource Overview — Indicates the numbers of chassis, servers, switches, and storage that have been
discovered.
The state of the servers is categorized based on the following:
– Healthy (green band on the graphic): Indicates that there is no issue with the servers and working
as expected.
– Critical (red band on the graphic): Indicates critical problems exist with one or more components
in the server. These issues must be fixed immediately.
– Warning (yellow band on the graphic): Indicates that the servers are in a state that requires
corrective action, but does not affect overall system health. For example, the firmware running on
a server is not at the required level or not compliant.
– Unknown (gray band on the graphic): Indicates that the state of the server is unknown.
• Under Server Utilization in Services, a pie chart displays:
– Servers In Use (blue band on the pie chart) — Indicates exact number of servers that are in use. To
view the total number of servers used, move the mouse pointer over the band.
– Servers Available (gray band on the graphic) — Indicates the exact number of servers that are
available for deployment. To view the number of servers that are available, move the mouse
pointer over the band.
• Under Utilization by Server Pool, each bar represents a server pool and displays the number of
servers used and available in that server pool.
• Under Total Storage Capacity, a pie chart displays the percentage of storage disk space currently
being used.
– Storage Used (blue band on the graphic) — Indicates the percentage of used storage disk space.
To view the percentage of used storage disk space, move the mouse pointer over the band.
– Storage Available (gray band on the graphic) — Indicates the percentage of available disk storage
space. To view the percentage of available storage space, move the mouse pointer over the band.
• Under Capacity by Storage Group, each bar represents one of the following storage groups and
displays the storage capacity used or available on the particular storage group.
– Dell EqualLogic Group
– Dell Compellent Arrays
– NetApp Arrays
The Dashboard also displays the following information in the right pane:
• Licensing Information — Displayed when any one of the of the following events occur:
– The number of resources managed by ASM exceeds the valid license count.
– The trial license expires.
• Quick Action — Enables you to create a new template and deploy a new service.
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