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Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.6.16 - User and Reference Guide

Manage desktops in virtual environments Interact with Foglight for VMware Horizon View dashboards Reference

Explore desktops

When you click the Desktops tile, a list of Virtual Machines, Terminal Service Hosts, and Unmanaged Desktops on Physical Hosts is displayed in the Quick View.
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NOTE: Desktops on physical machines, including desktops of a physical host and desktop of a VM on a physical host are classified as “Unmanaged Desktops”.
Selecting a Virtual Machine from the Quick View list displays the resource utilization values for that VM in the Summary pane. Click the Explorer link in the upper-right corner to drill down to the VMware Explorer view of the object, to see detailed information about the selected object and its components. If the selected object is a monitoring VM, the VMware Explorer page appears. For more information, see Use the VMware Explorer.
The Alarms table at the bottom of the view shows all the alarms triggered for the selected Virtual Machine.
Figure 16. VMware Explorer page
Selecting a Terminal Service Host or an Unmanaged Desktop on Physical Host from the Quick View list displays the CPU, Memory, Network, and Storage utilization charts for the selected host in the Summary pane. Clicking any data series on the charts allows you to drill down into the Metric Analyzer dashboard for the associated metric and view the metrics collected for that topology object. Click the Explorer link in the upper-right corner to drill down to the Host Monitor page for the selected host.
Figure 17. Host Monitor page

Explore Horizon Pools

When you click the Horizon Pools tile, the Quick View shows a list of pools available in the View Instance. The pools are grouped by type: Automated, Manual, and Terminal Services.
When selecting a pool on the Quick View list, the Summary pane displays the following information for the selected pool:
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Pool name and type
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For Automated and Manual pools: the current maximum number of sessions possible and a chart of session utilization percentage
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For Terminal Services pools: a chart of session count
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All Alarms table showing all the alarms triggered for the pool
Figure 18. Exploring Horizon Pools
 
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NOTE: The icon in the Quick View tree indicates a pool that is disabled.

Use the VMware Explorer

The VMware Explorer allows you to monitor a wide range of elements in your virtual infrastructure. It contains a number of informative views through which you can quickly and easily access detailed information about any of the available components (physical or virtual) within the infrastructure. Its hierarchical interface includes drilldown capabilities that display various performance metrics and alarms within the virtual infrastructure.
Figure 19. VMware Explorer
For reference information about the data appearing on this dashboard, see VMware Explorer Primary view.
The VMware Explorer dashboard contains the following views: the Virtual Infrastructure view and VMware Explorer View.

Virtual Infrastructure view

The Virtual Infrastructure view contains a navigation tree on the Topology tab that represents the various virtual infrastructure objects: Virtual Centers, Datacenters, Clusters, ESX® Hosts, Resource Pools, and Virtual Machines. For each individual object or group of objects, a status indicator appears, showing the alarm of highest severity that is outstanding for the that object or objects.
For example, there are 77 virtual machines configured for a VirtualCenter. Fifty-five of the virtual machines have a Normal status, nineteen have a Warning status, one has a Critical status, and another one has a Fatal status. In the Topology view, the virtual machines container for that VirtualCenter displays a Fatal status indicator to show that at least one of the virtual machines associated with the VirtualCenter has an outstanding Fatal alarm.
Figure 20. Virtual Infrastructure view
The Hierarchy tab shows the logical layout of VirtualCenter management servers.
Figure 21. Hierarchy tab
Hovering over an object in the Virtual Infrastructure view, you see a popup that provides a summary of the present state of that object.
Figure 22. Object state
Selecting an object or group of objects on either tab of the Virtual Infrastructure view displays performance details about your selection in the VMware Explorer. The VMware Explorer takes up the entire display area of the Foglight browser interface. This view provides significant value to administrators who leverage Foglight for VMware Horizon View to monitor their virtual infrastructure.
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