Reference Guide

98 Cartridge for VMware
Reference Guide
Virtual Infrastructure View
The vmExplorer Dashboard provides a Virtual Infrastructure View. The Virtual
Infrastructure View is located in the navigation panel at the left of the vFoglight GUI,
under the dashboards list.
Purpose
The Virtual Infrastructure View provides an organized view of the various virtual
infrastructure objects that are monitored by the VMware Cartridge. It serves as a
navigation tool, and it also presents pertinent alarm information.
When you select an object from the Virtual Infrastructure View, all of the views in the
vmExplorer Dashboard are updated with information pertaining to that object.
Content and Embedded Views
The Virtual Infrastructure View contains two embedded views: the Topology View and
the Hierarchy View.
Within the Topology View, all of the virtual infrastructure objects are organized into a
tree using object type (or topology type) containers for branches. The top-level objects
in the Topology View are always the VirtualCenters.
Within the Hierarchy View, each VirtualCenter object is organized into a tree that has
the same hierarchical structure as the VirtualCenter and displays the objects
(Datacenters, Clusters, Resource Pools, Virtual Machines, Folders, etc.) within the
VirtualCenter as branches.
Mouse-over Status Popups
When you hover the cursor over an object in the Virtual Infrastructure View, you see a
popup that provides a summary of the present state of that object.
For more information about the Virtual Infrastructure View, see the chapter titled
“Interacting with the Cartridge for VMware” in the vFoglight Cartridge for VMware
User Guide.