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Working with the VirtualCenter Data
This chapter describes the scope of the VirtualCenter data presented in the VirtualCenter client. This chapter describes the display of current data.
This chapter contains the following topics:
Access the general display of data and activity through the information panel. The information panel is the visual center of your VirtualCenter monitoring activities. Through the information panel, view status, resource usage, and performance information about your hosts, virtual machines, and farms. View scheduled tasks, available templates, and a list of events.
This information in one of two sets of panels.
- Navigation bar — Provides shortcuts to generalized areas of related activities. The options are: Inventory, Tasks, Templates, and Events.
The Tasks, Templates, and Events options display a single information panel. The Inventory option displays an inventory panel or an information panel. The Inventory information panel displays a set of tabs. The displayed tabs depend upon the object you select in the inventory panel.
When you select any other navigation bar, the information panel appears.
- Inventory tabs — A subset of the Inventory option. The Inventory tabs are a set of panels that display task oriented information pertaining to the selected VirtualCenter object. Each VirtualCenter object has its own set of tabs. The tab options are: Summary, Farms, Hosts, Virtual Machines, Performance, Events, Alarms, Console, and Permissions.
When you select the Inventory option in the navigation bar, an information panel appears on the right side of the screen. When you select an object, (host, virtual machine, group, or farm) from the inventory panel, the information panel displays tabs corresponding to the selected object. This data appears until you select a different object from the inventory panel.
The following table shows the available panels and their source mapping. Note that you can use either the navigation bar and the information panel tabs to view events information.
Panel
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Source
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Description
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Alarms
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Inventory panel
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Lists the configured alarms for the selected object.
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Console
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Inventory panel
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Displays a remote console to interact directly with the virtual
machine. Through the remote console you can take selected
actions upon the virtual machine.
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Events
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navigation bar
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Lists the recent event messages for all objects managed by
VirtualCenter.
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Events
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Inventory panel
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Lists the recent event messages that report on the status of the
selected farm, host, or virtual machine.
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Farms
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Inventory panel
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Lists the farms assigned to the selected farm group.
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Hosts
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Inventory panel
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Lists the hosts assigned to the selected farm.
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Inventory
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navigation bar
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Provides access for managing all the Server Farms entities.
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Performance
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Inventory panel
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Displays the performance charts for the selected host or virtual
machine resources. The charts for farms and hosts display
combined charts that show the usage of each resource.
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Permissions
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Inventory panel
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Lists the users and groups that have permissions on the selected
object and at what level the permission was assigned.
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Summary
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Inventory panel
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Displays a collection of data for the selected object.
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Tasks
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navigation bar
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Provides access for managing scheduled tasks.
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Templates
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navigation bar
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Provides access for managing templates.
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Virtual
Machines
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Inventory panel
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Lists the virtual machines assigned to the selected farm or host.
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Each navigation bar has a primary information panel and associated tab. The Inventory option has an inventory panel from which you can select objects. Each selected object has its own set of associated information panel tabs. The following table lists the possible tab views for each VirtualCenter object.
Inventory Object
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Summary
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Farms
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Virtual Machines
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Hosts
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Performance
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Events
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Alarms
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Console
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Permissions
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Server Farms
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Farms
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Alarms
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Permissions
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Farm Group
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Farms
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Alarms
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Permissions
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Farm
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Summary
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Virtual Machines
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Hosts
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Performance
|
Events
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Alarms
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Host
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Summary
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Virtual Machines
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Performance
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Events
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Alarms
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Virtual Machine Group
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Virtual Machines
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Performance
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Alarms
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Permissions
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Virtual Machine
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Summary
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Performance
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Events
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Alarms
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Console
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Permissions
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