Quest VROOM 1.1 - User Guide

Using Quest VROOM Dashboard

Quest™ VROOM accelerates the performance of your entire virtual infrastructure, transforms the application experience for users, and helps you control license and hardware costs. Go way beyond simple Hyper-V and VMware monitoring by maximizing resource utilization and improving virtual application performance across hybrid environments.

The Quest VROOM Dashboard User and Administration Guide is intended for users who belong to the Administrators group of Rapid Recovery Core Server and have been assigned either of the System Administrator, Advanced Operator, Capacity Management Administrator, VMware Administrator, or VMware QuickView User role.

This section introduces you to the Quest VROOM environment, and provides you with essential information.

For more information, see the following topics:

Installation requirements

Quest VROOM Dashboard comes installed on Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition and can be installed on a Foglight Management Server.

Quest VROOM Dashboard requires the following cartridges for data collection.

While Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition comes with these cartridges pre-installed and enabled, a stand-alone Foglight release requires that these components be installed on the Foglight Management Server. The sequence of cartridge installation is important because of their dependencies. For more information about installing Quest VROOM Dashboard, and for details about system requirements and version compatibility, see the Quest VROOM Dashboard Release Notes.

Dashboard location and UI elements

After installing Quest VROOM Dashboard, the Protection entry appears under Homes.

To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.

The Protection dashboard consists of the following UI elements:

Group selector

The Group selector is located at the top of the dashboard and allows you to select the Protection environment that you monitored.