Overview dashboard

The Overview dashboard presents relationships between all virtual elements and storage elements that are in use.

To display IBM® storage resource overview:

  1. In the Overview dashboard, click a storage system in the Storage Systems pane.
    The list of all the resources related to the selected storage system are displayed in the right pane of the Overview dashboard. The resources include virtual machines, host systems, datastores, volumes, pools, storage systems (arrays), hosts, FC initiators, FC ports, iSCSI initiators, iSCSI ports, modules, flash canisters, flash enclosures, flash cards and disks.

    The alert widget is detailed in Using the alert widget.

    Figure 1. IBM Spectrum Accelerate Storage Systems pane
    This screen capture shows the IBM Spectrum Accelerate Storage Systems 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 vROps Manager, according to the number of alarms and statistic information. However, disk health score is based on the health.requires service metric.
    Figure 2. IBM Spectrum Accelerate volume health status
    This screen capture shows the Spectrum Accelerate 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 Performance dashboard below.