Novell Cloud Manager provides a basic dashboard that lets you view the RAM and CPU capacity for zones and host groups, view service level and workload template usage, and track uncompleted tasks that are close to their due dates.
To view the dashboard:
In the Cloud Manager console, click .
The Home view includes four panels (Capacity, My Tasks, Service Levels, and Workload Templates). You can move and resize the panels to customize the view. Any changes you make persist across Novell Cloud Manager sessions.
Capacity: The Capacity panel shows the used capacity and total capacity for all RAM and CPUs within all zones, a specific zone, or a specific host group. The capacity statistics are updated every hour.
Zone: Select if you want to see capacity for all zones in your system. Select a zone to see capacity for all host groups within that zone, or select a host group to see capacity for that host group.
RAM: Displays the used/total RAM capacity for the selected zones, zone, or host group. Total represents the total RAM of all hosts in the selected host group, zone, or zones. Used represents the actual RAM being used to run the workloads deployed on the hosts.
CPU: Displays the deployed/total vCPU (virtual CPU) capacity for the selected zones, zone, or host group. Total represents the total number of vCPUs in the selected host group, zone, or zones. Deployed represents the total number of vCPUs allocated to workloads deployed to those hosts.
Note that deployed represents the total vCPUs for all workloads deployed to the hosts, not the total vCPUs of all actively running workloads. It is possible that the deployed number could exceed the total vCPU capacity for the selected host group, zone, or zones. This does not necessarily indicate a problem, provided that all deployed workloads are not running at the same time. It just indicates an overcommit of the vCPUs for the host group, zone, or zones.
My Tasks: The My Tasks panel displays all uncompleted tasks currently assigned to you. By default, the tasks are sorted by due date with the soonest due date listed first. Any task that is within 8 hours of its due date is displayed in red. Double-click a task to display it. Click the and column headers to change the sort order.
Service Levels: The Service Levels panel shows the usage for each of the service levels in your system. The following information is displayed for each service level
Name: The name of the service level.
Usage: The number of times the service level is used in business services.
Zone: The zone in which the service level’s host group resides.
Host Group: The host group associated with the service level.
By default, the list is sorted from the largest number of subscriptions to the lowest number. You can click the Subscription column header to reverse the sort order. You can also click another column header to sort on that column.
Workload Templates: The Workload Templates panel shows the usage for each of the workload templates in your system. The following information is displayed for each workload template:
Name: The name of the workload template.
Usage: The number of times the workload template has been used to create a workload.
Zone: The zone to which the workload template is assigned.
By default, the list is sorted from the largest number of subscriptions to the lowest number. You can click the Subscription column header to reverse the sort order. You can also click another column header to sort on that column.