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At the right, the Topology View displays status indicators. For an individual object, the
status indicator represents the alarm of highest severity that is outstanding for that
object. For an object type container, the status indicator represents the alarm of highest
severity that is outstanding for all of the objects of that type. For example, there are
twenty-five Virtual Machines configured for a VirtualCenter. Twenty of the Virtual
Machines have a Normal status, three have a Warning status, and two have a Critical
status. In the Topology View, the Virtual Machines container for that VirtualCenter
displays a Critical status indicator to show that at least one of the Virtual Machines
associated with the VirtualCenter has an outstanding Critical alarm.
Note A single Virtual Machine running at a high CPU utilization does not trigger an alarm for its
parent ESX Server. An alarm would only be triggered for the parent ESX Server if the server
itself was running at a high CPU utilization
Hierarchy View
The Hierarchy View represents the logical layout of VirtualCenter management servers,
so it is not organized into groups of common objects.
In the Hierarchy View each VirtualCenter object is organized into a tree that has the
same hierarchical structure as the corresponding VirtualCenter, displaying the objects
(Datacenters, Clusters, Resource Pools, Virtual Machines, Folders, etc.) within the
VirtualCenter as branches.
Each object in the Hierarchy View has a representative icon that is displayed at the left
of the object’s name. These icons are shown in the Virtual Infrastructure View Object
Icons table in “Topology View” on page 47.
At the right, the Hierarchy View displays status indicators. Each status indicator
represents the alarm of highest severity that is outstanding for the corresponding object.
The lowest level object in a virtual infrastructure that may be selected from within the
Hierarchy View is an ESX Server host object.