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Compute Admin Dashboard

The Compute Admin Dashboard presents health, utilization, and performance data for compute infrastructure.

The dashboard is available for FC SAN, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, IBM PowerVM, and Host OS integrations.

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Report Variables

You can filter the report for an ESX host, host, PowerMax host, or OS Instance. Use the filters to drill down on a specified infrastructure component.

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Report Sections

The report is divided into five sections:

  1. Compute Overview

    Use the Compute Overview section to quickly observe where problems exist in the Compute infrastructure.  View open cases to use the investigations to troubleshoot and remediate issues.  Note entities with issues to use to filter the report.

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  2. Compute Health

    This section is filtered by host and ESX host and shows you where port errors, loss of sync, loss of signal, link errors, and discards are occurring.

    List card and trend charts are displayed for each entity type and metric. Drill down on entities in the list views for more information. Target these entities for physical layer investigation.

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  3. Compute Utilization

    This section is filtered by host, ESX host, and OS instance and shows you utilization data for hosts, ESX hosts, Hyper-V hosts, PowerVM hosts, OS instances, HBA ports, and PowerMax initiators.

    • Receive/transmit utilization

    • Read/write utilization

    • FC input/output utilization

    • Average initiator read/write MB/s

    List card and trend charts are displayed for each entity type and metric. Drill down on entities in the list views for more information. Target these entities for more investigation.

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  4. Compute Performance

    This section is filtered by application and storage port and shows you performance data for hosts.

    • Average read/write completion time

    • Average read/write response time

    List card and trend charts are displayed for each entity type and metric. Drill down on entities in the list views for more information. Target these entities for more investigation.

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  5. Report Quick Links

    Use this section to view additional reports and dashboards.

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