Foglight for VMware Horizon View 7.1.0 - User Guide

Event Analytics tab

This tab is available in the VMware Explorer. To find it, open the VMware Explorer and on the Virtual Infrastructure view, that appears on the navigation panel, select an ESX® host or virtual machine instance. In the VMware Explorer, open the Event Analytics tab.

VMware Explorer’s Event Analytics tab contains details about the state of resource-related metrics collected about an ESX host or a virtual machine over a selected time period, and also shows any events that occurred during that time frame.

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

This view shows a chart indicating the utilization percentage or all values for one or more metric values selected in the Source Object/Metric view. If any infrastructure changes occur for the selected server during the selected time period, you can add them as an overlay to the chart using the Infrastructure Changes and Alarms view. This can give you a good idea on how the current resource consumption affects your environment as a whole. For example, a steady increase in memory consumption can trigger memory utilization alarms, which typically indicates that you need to allocate more memory to the affected ESX Server.

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

This view allows you to add events such as alarms or infrastructure changes as overlays to the ESX Host Metrics Vs. Related Events or VM Metrics Vs. Related Events view, and correlate the resource consumption with the stability of your environment.

This view allows you to select the metrics that appear in the chart view on the right. Possible metric types include: CPU Metrics, Disk Metrics, Memory Metrics, and Network Metrics. For each metric type, you can display the values of a selected metric, or all metric values associated with that type. For example, selecting Disk Metrics gives you an option of displaying Read Rate, Write Rate, or both metrics (All) in the chart. It also indicates if the chart on the right shows any color-coded overlays that represent infrastructure and/or alarm events, in addition to the selected source metric.

This view shows a chart indicating the utilization percentage or all values for one or more metric values selected in the Source Object/Metric view. If any infrastructure changes occur for the selected server during the selected time period, you can add them as an overlay to the chart using the Infrastructure Changes and Alarms view. This can give you a good idea on how the current resource consumption affects your environment as a whole. For example, a steady increase in memory consumption can trigger memory utilization alarms, which typically indicates that you need to allocate more memory to the affected virtual machine.

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

FAQts view

The FAQts view is provided in the VMware Explorer dashboard and is available in the VMware Explorer Primary view through a navigation tab.

Through three embedded views (the Categories, Question, and Answer views), the FAQts view enables you to ask questions and provides the answers to those questions.

The FAQts view is made up of the following embedded views:

This view provides an answer to the question selected in the Questions view. The answer appears in the following form:

Top x <objects of category>…

where x is the number of objects of the category you provided in the Categories view.

Specify x by entering a number. The answer is relative to the subset of the infrastructure you are viewing in the dashboard. For example, the top 5 datastores are different for each individual cluster in the infrastructure.

This view lists the categories for which questions can be answered for you by Foglight for Hyper-V.

Click a category in the list to select it.

This view lists the questions, for the category selected in the Categories, that can be answered for you by Foglight for Hyper-V.

Click a question in the list to select it.

If the list of questions is long and you want to narrow it down, search for a particular text string using the Search Questions box.

Memory tab

This tab is available in the VMware Explorer. To find it, open the VMware Explorer and on the Virtual Infrastructure view, that appears on the navigation panel, select an ESX® host instance. In the VMware Explorer, open the Memory tab.

The VMware Explorer’s Memory tab displays the combined memory utilization for an ESX host, showing the amount memory used by each virtual machine that is running on that host. This includes the amount of active and shared memory in GB, all during a selected time period.

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

This view shows the amounts of active memory used by each virtual machine that is running on the ESX host during the selected time period.

This view shows the amounts of shared memory used by each virtual machine that is running on the ESX host during the selected time period.

This view shows a list of all virtual machines that are running on the selected ESX host. For each virtual machine, it shows its name along with a color indicator for displaying this information in the Active Memory and Shared Memory views. This allows you to show or hide the related resource use from these views.

The list also shows the following information for each virtual machine:

Monitor tab

This tab is available in the VMware Explorer. To find it, open the VMware Explorer and on the Virtual Infrastructure view, that appears on the navigation panel, select the server or virtual machine instance. In the VMware Explorer, open the Monitor tab.

The VMware Explorer’s Monitor tab shows details of system resources consumption for a server or a virtual machine.

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

This view shows the numbers of ESX® hosts and virtual machines the selected ESX host or virtual machine belongs to. It also shows the cluster’s combined current CPU and memory utilization along with the disk and network I/O rates, and any alarm counts associated with the cluster, broken by the alarm state.

This view shows the number of ESX hosts and virtual machines in the datacenter the selected virtual machine is associated with. It also shows the datacenter’s combined current CPU and memory utilization along with the disk and network I/O rates, and any alarm counts associated with the datacenter, broken by the alarm state.

NOTE: This data only appears when exploring virtual machine details.

This view shows the utilization of the selected server’s resources. It shows the current CPU utilization for each CPU, and the composite CPU utilization across all CPUs on the selected ESX host. This view also provides insights into memory usage, and disk and network IO rates.

NOTE: This data only appears when exploring ESX host details.

This view shows the numbers of virtual machines in the resource pool the selected virtual machine is associated with. It also shows the resource pool’s combined current CPU and memory utilization along with the disk and network I/O rates, and any alarm counts associated with the resource pool, broken by the alarm state.

NOTE: This data only appears when exploring virtual machine details.

This view shows the numbers of virtual machines that are running in the ESX Host to which the selected virtual machine belongs. It also shows the ESX Host’s combined current CPU and memory utilization along with the disk and network I/O rates, and any alarm counts associated with the virtual machines, broken by the alarm state.

NOTE: This data only appears when exploring virtual machine details.

This view shows the utilization of the resources allocated to the selected virtual machine. It shows the current CPU utilization for each allocated CPU, and the composite CPU utilization across all CPUs on the selected ESX host. This view also provides insights into memory usage, and disk and network IO rates.

NOTE: This data only appears when exploring virtual machine details.

This view shows a list of virtual machines associated with the selected ESX host. For each virtual machine, the list shows its name, followed by the total counts of alarms associated with that VM, broken down by alarm types (normal, warning, critical, fatal). This view also indicates how many virtual machines are currently running.

NOTE: This data only appears when exploring ESX host details.

This view shows a list of messages associated with the selected virtual machine.

NOTE: This data only appears when exploring virtual machine details.