Software for Linux User guide

Performance information
These sections list information displayed on the Performance tab of the System Page for virtual
machine hosts and guests.
• To determine virtual machine host capacity and virtual machine workload characteristics, use
the performance information.
• To create alerts and log messages based on user-selectable performance values, use the
threshold settings.
Performance color codes
The color codes on the Performance tab indicate the percentage of a resource that has been
consumed. The colors of the utilization bar indicate the following conditions:
• Blue—memory and throughput.
• Green—utilization is less than 70%.
• Yellow—utilization is between 70% and 80%.
• Red—utilization is greater than 80%.
Multisystem aware tools available
Within HP SIM, you can run tools on multiple systems at once—you can run multisystem aware
tools. The following VMM tools can be multisystem aware:
• Starting virtual machine hosts
• Stopping virtual machine hosts
• Restarting virtual machine hosts
• Pausing virtual machine hosts
• Setting an alternate host
• Setting the performance threshold
18 Using Insight Control virtual machine management