Users Guide

Interacting with the vFoglight Cartridge for VMware 53
vmExplorer Dashboard
Description of Embedded Views
The Primary View may or may not contain the following embedded views:
•Summary View
• Utilizations View
• Resource Pools Relationship Tree View
• Related Objects Views
Summary View
If you select the Summary navigational link from the Primary View heading, the
Summary View is displayed just below the heading. Typically, the Summary View
provides a brief description of the selected object, an overview of its available compute
resources, and a count (if applicable) of the objects that are contained within it.
Sometimes the Summary View includes a graph. For example, if you select a collection
of ESX Servers (that is, the ESX Servers container for a particular VirtualCenter) from
the Topology View, the Summary View displays a graph that illustrates the combined
CPU consumption for all of the ESX Servers in the collection.
Within a collection of objects Summary View, you can hover the cursor over any graph
to see an exact unit measurement that corresponds to the placement of the cursor, and
you can click any metric or chart to see a popup with a detailed chart.
Utilizations View
The Utilizations View is typically located in the center of the Primary View.
The Utilizations View provides numerical and graphical representations of utilization
metrics associated with the single object (Datacenter, Cluster, Server, Resource Pool,
Virtual Machine, or Datastore) or collection of objects of a particular type (Datacenters,
Clusters, Servers, Resource Pools, Virtual Machines, or Datastores) that is selected.
The Utilizations View differs and may not appear at all depending on the object or
collection of objects selected from the Virtual Infrastructure View and on the
navigational link selected from the Primary View heading. For example, if you select a
single Resource Pool from the Virtual Infrastructure View and you select the
Performance link from the Primary View heading, the Utilizations View displays four
graphs showing CPU, memory, disk, and network resource utilizations for the selected
Resource Pool. If you select the VMs link for that same Resource Pool, the Utilizations
View displays one graph illustrating the percent-used and percent-ready CPU utilization
for the Virtual Machines of the Resource Pool. If, however, you select a collection of