O&M capabilities
Basic O&M
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System dashboard |
Resource summaries |
Present real-time host and VM states in tables and graphics to help you quickly gain a holistic view of resource usage across the platform. Present system health, host and VM state statistics, usage of resources (CPUs, memory, and storage), storage cluster capacity, and system alarms. Present top five hosts and VMs by their CPU, memory, and storage usage. |
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Software and hardware performance monitoring |
Host hardware monitoring |
Monitor the operating state and performance of host hardware. In addition, UIS Manager monitors storage, physical NICs, GPUs, and storage controllers in real time. |
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Performance monitoring |
Monitor hosts, VMs, and storage clusters and resource usage in the virtualized environment.
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VM processes and services monitoring |
Monitor active programs, processes, and services on VMs to provide their resource usage statistics. You can obtain the username, process ID and process name of each process and their CPU usage, memory usage, and used memory capacity. |
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Storage cluster summary statistics |
Obtain an overview of the storage cluster settings, performance, and health status. Available statistics include cluster IOPS, cluster capacity, Top 5 disks by usage, cluster I/O throughputs, Top 5 disks by read latency, Top 5 disks by write latency, number of storage nodes by state, and number of disks by state. |
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Network topology |
View the connections between vSwitches and VMs, vSwitches and physical NICs on hosts, and VMs and virtual firewalls. |
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Logs |
Operation log |
The operation log records all operations done in UIS Manager. You can review the operation log to audit user behavior and analyze issues. For example, you can review the operation log to identify the operator of an unscheduled operation and do an investigation. |
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Log collection |
Collect logs about UIS Manager and its managed hosts and download the log files. For example, you can collect logs about a malfunctioning host and send the log files to technical support for help if the issue persists. |
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Task console |
The task console provides quick access to the most recent tasks. When you execute a task, for example, start a VM, the task console automatically opens to show the task execution progress. If the task fails, the task console displays the failure cause to help you troubleshoot the issue. |
To open the task
console, click its icon |
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Advanced O&M
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Monitoring reports |
Host reports |
Review the resource usage statistics for a host for a specified period. |
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VM reports |
Review the resource usage statistics for a VM for a specified period. |
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Top N reports |
Obtain TopN hosts or VMs with most resource usage over a specified period. |
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Resource statistics |
Cluster resource statistics |
Obtain basic information about a cluster and its resource usage statistics. Available information about a cluster includes the number of hosts, VM distribution, VM summary, number of CPU cores, total memory, and shared storage. |
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Host resource statistics |
Obtain basic information about a host and its resource usage statistics. Available information about a host includes its uptime, host model, CPU model, CPU usage, memory usage, and local disk capacity. |
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VM resource statistics |
Obtain basic information about VMs and their resource usage. Available information about a VM includes its hostname, state, CPUs, memory, virtual disks, guest OS, CPU usage, and memory usage. |
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IP assignment statistics |
View information about IP assignment to VMs. |
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VLAN assignment statistics |
View information about the VLAN to which a VM belongs. |
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Storage resource statistics |
View statistics about the assignment of storage resources including VM disks, network storage, and shared file systems. |
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VM downtime statistics |
Obtain the periods of time during which a VM is in shutdown, suspended, hibernating, or unknown state, and the total time in which a VM is in one of these states. |
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Availability center |
Monitoring center |
Hot keys are available for you to gain easy access to visualized, holistic view of platform performance and health status, and quickly identify issues. In addition, the system presents the availability state of the services, system, and hardware at a UIS site in a hierarchical structure. Hot keys are available for you to quickly check the health state of the UIS sites. |
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Ignoring alarm metrics |
You can ignore the alarm metrics that do not require attention in the monitoring center or health check tasks. The system does not report the alarms generated for the ignored alarm metrics. |
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Alarm management |
Real-time alarms |
View most recent alarms generated in the system. From the list of real-time alarms, you can drill down to details such as cause of the alarm and recommended actions. |
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Alarm threshold configuration |
Configure threshold-based alarm triggers to monitor metrics and generates alarms when they cross the thresholds for a severity level. For example, you can configure an alarm threshold on cluster CPU usage. When the cluster CPU usage crosses that threshold, the system generates an alarm. When you configure threshold-based alarm triggers, you can also specify parameters such as the alarm duration. |
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Ignored alarms |
If you want to see only alarms of interest in the real-time alarm list, configure alarms that do not require attention as ignored alarms. |
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Alarm notifications |
Configure UIS Manager to send email or SMS notifications about alarms of interest. |
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Special-purpose O&M
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Hot key for health check |
Check system health on one click and obtain the system health score. You can check the system, compute, storage, network, and availability services for operating and performance issues and any other risks that might negatively affect VM services. |
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Hot key for resource analysis |
Review the resource configuration of the cluster, hosts, and VMs and their one-month CPU and memory usage summary to make informed decisions such as scaling decisions. |
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Hot key for storage cleanup |
Scan associations between VMs and back-end storage files for unused storage files. A file is unused if it is not an .iso guest OS image or virtualization driver file, and it is not mounted to a VM. You can delete these files to free up storage space. |
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Hot key to export a resource report |
Export a report about the resource configuration and usage of hosts or VMs. You can select the report file format and the fields to be included in the report. |
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Hot key for VM restoration |
Restore the state of VMs to a past point in time, which is called a restore point. |
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Hot key to manage zombie VMs |
Discover, start, or delete zombie VMs, which are VMs that persist in idle and down state for a long time. |
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Shut down all hosts in the cluster |
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Hot key for hardware replacement |
Hardware replacement allows you to replace the CPU, memory, motherboard, NIC, RAID controller, and disk backplane of the host used for HCI deployment. This feature provides software-related operations for hardware replacement. |
Custom O&M
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Operator management |
Operator management |
Add, edit, or delete operators, or view detailed information about an operator. |
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Operator grouping |
Assign operators with the same privileges to the same operator group for the ease of management. |
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Online operator management |
View, filter, and log off online operators. |
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VM view |
Adding VM management directories |
The system provides the VM view for you to assign VMs of the same type or dependencies to the same directory or subdirectory for unified VM management, quick VM filtering, and quick search for VM details. |
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VM boot rule |
Set the sequence to start the VMs that have dependencies. For example, you have one database VM, one application VM, and one web service VM. To start them in order, you place them in the same VM directory and set their boot priorities before you start them in bulk. |
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My dashboards |
My dashboards |
Create custom dashboards to monitor metrics of interest. In design mode, you can quickly drag and drop the monitor tiles for monitored metrics to your dashboard with ease. After you save the dashboard, you can open the dashboard to monitor the metrics of interest whenever you want. To use the whole screen to display the dashboard, use the full screen mode. |
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