Users Guide

Interacting with the vFoglight Cartridge for VMware 55
vmExplorer Dashboard
Figure 7 shows a Utilizations View for a Cluster object. As explained above, you can
hover the cursor over any metric in a Utilizations View to see a description of the
metric, and you can click any metric or chart to see a popup with a detailed chart. For
example, if you click the CPU Load gauge for a Cluster object, a graph of CPU
utilization over the time range specified for the vmExplorer dashboard is displayed. If
you click the Memory Utilization graph, a larger view of the graph with descriptive text
about each memory metric is displayed.
Figure 7
Figure 7 Cluster Object Utilizations View
Object Collection Utilizations Views
When a collection of objects of a particular type (Datacenters, Clusters, Servers,
Resource Pools, Virtual Machines, or Datastores) is selected from the Virtual
Infrastructure View, summary text and a chart—or other compositional information for
the collection—are displayed under the Summary link in the Primary View. No
Utilizations View is displayed.
Under some of the other navigational links (the Performance and VMs links, for
examples) in the Primary View, the Utilizations View does appear for collections of
objects. Under the Performance link, the Utilizations View typically displays four
graphs showing CPU, memory, disk, and network resource utilizations for the objects in
the selected collection. Under the VMs link, the Utilizations View typically displays a
graph illustrating the percent-used and percent-ready CPU utilization for the Virtual
Machines of the selected collection.
Within a collection of objects Utilizations 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.