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Horizon Overview Dashboard
The Horizon Overview dashboard shows the overall status of your Horizon environment. Use the Horizon
Overview dashboard to visualize the end-to-end environment, its underlying environment, and alerts.
The Horizon Top Alerts widget shows the alerts of the greatest signicance for Horizon objects. When you
select a pod in the Horizon Pods widget, the Pod Indicator Metrics, Pod Session Metrics, and Pod Capacity
Metrics widgets show data for the pod that you selected.
Tips for Using the Horizon Overview Dashboard
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Click an alert in the Horizon Top Alerts widget to open the alert details.
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Use the Horizon Pods widget to determine the total number sessions, including the number of
connected and disconnected sessions, for a selected pod. Use the Pod Session Metrics widget to view
desktop, application, PCoIP, RDP, and Blast HTML session metrics.
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The vCenter Server Instance widget shows the vCenter that the View pod is associated with. It includes
vCenter name, vCenter CPU capacity usage, vCenter usable memory, vCenter disk capacity remaining,
and collecting status.
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The Capacity remaining widget shows the capacity related information of the selected vCenter in
vCenter Server Instance widget. It shows the graph of used capacity and remaining capacity.
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The Reclaimable Capacity widget shows the reclaimable capacity of the selected vCenter in the vCenter
Server Instance widget. It shows the reclaimable CPU, memory, and disk. It also shows the percentage
of VMs in dierent status.
Horizon Infrastructure Dashboard
Use the Horizon Infrastructure dashboard to quickly assess the underlying vSphere and Horizon
infrastructure that supports your Horizon environment.
Horizon Infrastructure Hosts, Horizon VDI Desktop VMs, View Datastores, and View RDS Hosts are Heat
Map widgets. These widgets show information about the health, workload, and connectivity of
infrastructure hosts, remote desktops, and datastores, RDS (Microsoft Remote Desktop Services) hosts in
your Horizon environment.
You can select an object in any widget and click the Dashboard Navigation buon on the widget toolbar to
navigate to vSphere dashboards. You can double-click an object to navigate to the object Summary tab in
vRealize Operations Manager.
N RDS hosts are specic to Horizon with View 6.0.x and VMware Horizon 6 version 6.1 and later
environments.
Tips for Using the Horizon Infrastructure Dashboard
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The colored rectangles in each widget represent particular objects. For example, in the Horizon VDI
Desktop VMs widget, each rectangle represents a particular virtual machine. You can point to a
rectangle to view basic information about its associated object.
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The size of the rectangle indicates the value of one metric, the color of the rectangle indicates the value
of another metric, and the widget conguration determines which metric values the widget shows. For
example, if you select Sized by Workload - Colored by Health from the  drop-down
menu, rectangles are sized according to the value of the workload aribute and are colored according to
the value of the health aribute. Red indicates a low value and green indicates the high end of the value
range.
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