Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.8.2 - User and Reference Guide


	NOTE: If the utilizations view is presenting metrics using spinners, the color of a spinner reflects the alarm state of the object with respect to the metric the spinner is presenting.

Within a single object Utilizations view, you can hover the cursor over any metric to see a description of that metric, and you can click any metric or chart to see a popup with a detailed chart.

In a Utilizations view that contains alarm severity level details, you can click an alarm status indicator to see the fatal, critical, and warning alarms for the associated object.

The following image 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 VMware Explorer 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 50. Utilizations view for a cluster object

Object Collection Utilizations views

When a collection of objects of a particular type (datacenters, clusters, ESX Servers, resource pools, or virtual machines) is selected from the Virtual Infrastructure view, summary text and a chart—or other compositional information for the collection—are displayed under the Summary tab in the Primary view. No Utilizations view is displayed.

Under some of the other navigation tabs (the Performance and VMs tabs, for examples) in the Primary view, the Utilizations view does appear for collections of objects. Under the Performance tab, 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 tab, the Utilizations view typically displays a graph illustrating the percent-used and percent-ready CPU utilization for the virtual machines of the selected collection.

The following image shows a Utilizations view for a collection of ESX Server objects.

Figure 51. Utilizations view for a collection of ESX Server objects

Virtual Environment Overview

Virtual Environment Summary dashboard provides a Virtual Environment Overview. The Virtual Environment Overview is located at the top of the dashboard. For more information about this dashboard, see Use the VMware View Environment dashboard.

Purpose and content

The Virtual Environment Overview provides you with an overview of the selected virtual environment.

Figure 52. Virtual Environment Overview: tiles

The overview has a tile for each type of object in your virtual infrastructure. Each tile shows how many of the corresponding object type there are in your virtual infrastructure, as well as the count of objects of that type in each of the alarm states (normal, warning, critical, fatal).

Click the object type icon, the object type name, or the object count, to view summary information for that entire object type in the Quick-View. Click an alarm state (for example, warning) on a tile to view summary information in the Quick-View for the objects of that type that are in the selected alarm state.

If an alarm state has a count of zero, then you cannot select that alarm state.

Virtual Infrastructure view

The VMware Explorer dashboard provides a Virtual Infrastructure view. The Virtual Infrastructure view is located in the navigational panel at the left of the Foglight for Hyper-V browser interface, under Dashboards. For more information about the VMware Explorer dashboard, see Use the VMware Explorer.

Purpose

The Virtual Infrastructure view provides an organized view of the various virtual infrastructure objects that are monitored by agents. It serves as a navigation tool, and it also presents pertinent alarm information.

Figure 53. Virtual Infrastructure view

When you select an object from the Virtual Infrastructure view, all of the views in the VMware Explorer dashboard are updated with information pertaining to that object.

Content and embedded views

The Virtual Infrastructure view contains two tabs views: the Topology tab and the Hierarchy tab.

Within the Topology view, all of the virtual infrastructure objects are organized into a tree using object type (or topology type) containers for branches. The top-level objects in the Topology view are always the VirtualCenters or vCenter®.

Within the Hierarchy view, each VirtualCenter object is organized into a tree that has the same hierarchical structure as the VirtualCenter and displays the objects (datacenters, clusters, resource pools, virtual machines, folders, etc.) within the VirtualCenter as branches.

Description of embedded views

The Virtual Infrastructure view is made up of the following embedded views:

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Topology tab

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Hierarchy tab

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Mouse-over status popups

Topology tab

The Topology view is organized into a tree using object type (or topology type) containers for branches.

The top-level objects in the Topology view are always the VirtualCenters.

Each VirtualCenter in the Topology view contains several object type containers, and each object type container contains every object of that particular type that is managed by the parent VirtualCenter.

Each object type container, as well as each object, has a representative icon that is displayed to the left, as shown in the following table.

Table 1. Virtual Infrastructure View Object Icons
Icon	Object	Object Name
	VirtualCenter	VMWVirtualCenter
	Datacenter	VMWDatacenter
	Cluster	VMWCluster
	ESX Server	VMWESXServer
	Resource Pool	VMWResourcePool
	Virtual Machine	VMWVirtualMachine
	Datastore	VMWDatastore

At the right, the Topology view displays status indicators. For an individual object, the status indicator represents the alarm of highest severity that is outstanding for that object. For an object type container, the status indicator represents the alarm of highest severity that is outstanding for all of the objects of that type.


	NOTE: A single virtual machine running at a high CPU utilization does not trigger an alarm for its parent ESX® Server. An alarm is only triggered for the parent ESX Server if the server itself is running at a high CPU utilization.

Hierarchy tab

The Hierarchy view represents the logical layout of VirtualCenter management servers, so it is not organized into groups of common objects.

In the Hierarchy view, each VirtualCenter object is organized into a tree that has the same hierarchical structure as the corresponding VirtualCenter, displaying the objects (for example, datacenters, clusters, resource pools, virtual machines, and folders) within the VirtualCenter as branches.

Each object in the Hierarchy view has a representative icon that is displayed at the left of the object’s name. These icons are shown in the table in Topology tab .

At the right, the Hierarchy view displays status indicators. Each status indicator represents the alarm of highest severity that is outstanding for the corresponding object.

Mouse-over status popups

When you hover the cursor over an object in the Virtual Infrastructure view, you see a popup that provides a summary of the present state of that object.

The following image shows the popup you see when you hover the cursor over a VirtualCenter object in the Virtual Infrastructure view.

Figure 54. Status popup example