Viewing the XIV Overview dashboard

IBM® XIV® Overview dashboard presents relationships between all virtual elements and storage elements that are in use.

Procedure

To display IBM XIV resource overview:

  1. In the IBM XIV Overview dashboard, click a storage array in the XIV STORAGE ARRAYS pane. The list of all the resources related to the selected storage array are displayed in the in the right pane of the Overview dashboard. The resources include virtual machines, host systems, datastores, volumes, pools, arrays, hosts, FC initiators, FC ports, iSCSI initiators, iSCSI ports, modules and disks.

    The XIV alert widget in detailed in Using the alert widget.

    Figure 1. XIV Storage Arrays pane
    This screen capture shows the XIV Storage Arrays pane
  2. Move the mouse pointer over a resource element or click on it to select it. A tooltip is displayed, detailing the element name and its health score. The health score is calculated automatically by the vCOps Manager, according to the number of alarms and statistic information. However, the IBM XIV Disk health score is based on the health.requires service metric.
    Figure 2. XIV volume health status
    This screen capture shows the XIV resource element health status
  3. Double-click on a selected resource element to display the resource details (health tree, metrics etc). These are detailed in the IBM XIV Performance dashboard below.