Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.8.1 - User and Reference Guide

The VMware Explorer’s Administration tab provides access to common administrative tasks. It also shows configuration details for a server or a virtual machine (depending on the selected object type), and some high-level information about the object’s resource consumption.

Figure 33. VMware Explorer dashboard: Administration tab

Description of embedded views

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

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Recent Tasks

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ESX Host Configuration

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ESX Host Summary Information

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ESX Host Toolbar

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Snapshots

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Virtual Machine Configuration

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Virtual Machines

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Virtual Machine Summary Information

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Virtual Machine Toolbar

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Workflows

Recent Tasks

This table lists the tasks that are performed for the selected ESX® host or virtual machine. For each task, it shows its description, the date on which the task finished, the task name, the date on which the task is scheduled to run, the task status, and the Foglight user who started the task.

ESX Host Configuration

Shows physical configuration details for the selected ESX® host.


	NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.

ESX Host Summary Information

This view displays additional configuration details for the selected ESX® host. It shows the name of the domain the selected ESX host belongs to, the ESX host's IP address, the total amount of memory, the number of CPUs, the processor type, the length of time the ESX host is running, and the number of virtual machines running on that host.


	NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.

ESX Host Toolbar

This toolbar contains buttons for initiating common administrative tasks, such as rebooting and shutting down the ESX® host, enabling its maintenance, and creating virtual machines.


	NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.

Snapshots

This view contains a hierarchical view of the selected virtual machine’s snapshots. It also contains buttons for initiating common administrative tasks such as creating, deleting, renaming, and reverting to virtual machine snapshots.


	NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.

Virtual Machine Configuration

This view shows the name of the selected virtual machine and its basic configuration, including its status, machine name, configuration, virtualization application (VMware®), and the guest OS.


	NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.

Virtual Machines

This view shows a list of virtual machines associated with the selected ESX® host. For each virtual machine, it displays its name, the total amount of memory that is available to that virtual machine, and the current percentage of time the CPU allocated to the virtual machine executes system code and user programs, including both system and user time.


	NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.

Virtual Machine Summary Information

This view shows additional configuration details for the selected virtual machine. For each virtual machine, it displays its IP address, OS name, the number of CPUs and network interface cards used by that virtual machine, the amount of memory and disk storage allocated to the virtual machine, the services associated with the selected virtual machine, and the length of time the virtual machine is running.


	NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.

Virtual Machine Toolbar

This toolbar contains buttons for initiating common administrative tasks, such as powering off the virtual machine, shutting down its guest OS, rebooting, suspending, switching the guest OS to standby mode, deleting, moving, and editing virtual machine configurations.


	NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.

Workflows

This view contains a list of the available workflows along with buttons for creating and editing workflows. A workflow is a collection of tasks that are arranged into a specific order, that you can run multiple times against the same or different set of objects. It provides a way to automate common scenarios and simplify administration in general. For each workflow, this view contains its name and description, the dates on which the workflow was added and updated, and the name of the Foglight user who created the workflow. You can use this view to create, edit, delete, and run workflows, and to import or export them to a file.


	NOTE: Creating or editing workflows takes you to the Workflow Studio dashboard. This dashboard is defined in the Foglight Cartridge for Automation. For complete details about this dashboard, see the Foglight Automation documentation.