Dashboard

The Dashboard is a single, high-level view into your environment which includes easy-to-read performance and configuration information. In many cases other areas within HPE VM Essentials UI will allow you to drill deeper into the information presented in the dashboard.

Environment

• Groups: Total number of Groups currently created

• Clouds: Total number of Clouds currently integrated

• Clusters: Total number of clusters currently provisioned

• Apps: Total number of Apps currently provisioned

• Instances: Total number of Instances currently provisioned

• Users: Total number of HPE VM Essentials user accounts

System Status

System status gives a high-level view of the health of the appliance. More detailed information can be viewed on the appliance health detail page (Administration > Health) and a more detailed breakdown of the meaning of each status indicator is in HPE VM Essentials health documentation.

Favorites

Any Instances you’ve “favorited” will appear here along with the Instance name, type, and IP address

The most recent five Alarms are displayed here and the user may link through to the resource which triggered the Alarm. For the complete list of Alarms and more information on each Alarm navigate to Operations > Activity > Alarms

Instance Status

The total number of Instances is listed along with a pie chart showing the statuses of each. Hover over each section of the pie chart to see the total number and percentage of Instances in that state. States may include running, stopped, provisioning, and more

Instances By Cloud

The total number of Clouds which currently have an Instance provisioned is shown. Hover over each section of the pie chart to see the total number and percentage of Instances provisioned to each Cloud

The number of Instances that have existed at any point in the day with additional breakdown to show the number provisioned to each Cloud. This number will include any pre-existing Instances which have carried over from previous days along with any new Instances that were provisioned and existed on that day even for a short time

Group Workloads

The instantaneous count of host or container records broken down by Group association

Cloud Workloads

The instantaneous count of host or container records broken down by Cloud association

Cluster Workloads

The instantaneous count of managed containers broken down by Cluster association

Backups

Displays the number of successful and unsuccessful backups over the last day, week or month

Task Executions

Displays the number of successful and unsuccessful Task executions over the last day, week or month

Activity

The activity list displays the last few events that have taken place in HPE VM Essentials by any user. This could be new provisioned workloads, deleted workloads, backups, or a number of other things. A more complete list of recent activities can be viewed in Operations > Activity