Host resources

The Host Resources provides an overview of hosts, host connections, HBAs, and drives. You can view performance metrics, export reports, and access detailed information for each component. Key features include performance and capacity insights, marking ESXi hosts as acknowledged or unacknowledged, and exporting reports in various formats.

You can export the report in CSV, PDF, or HTML format by clicking Export report for each component of host resources. Then, select the unit in which you want to display the capacity values in the exported report by choosing either Binary or Decimal option.

The following menus are available under the Host resources section.

Host connections

Host connections are the definitions of hosts, which are defined in the storage device.

  • On clicking, displays the overview of the associated host connections.
  • You can click the 3 vertical dots menu at the right end of each host connection row to view the properties and performance of the hosts.
  • Click the zoom arrow to expand the hosts overview table.
  • Performance and Volume mappings tabs are visible to get performance insights volume mappings of the hosts connections respectively.

For more information, see Host connections.

Hosts

Hosts are the actual consumers of storage, for which volumes are mapped from the storage device.

  • On clicking, displays the overview of the associated hosts.
  • You can click the three vertical dots menu at the end of each host row to view information about host properties, capacity, connections, and data collection.
    Note: For ESXi hosts, Mark as Acknowledge and Mark as Unacknowledged options are available.
  • You can select multiple hosts to perform bulk operations like viewing properties, capacity, and details.
  • Click the zoom arrow to expand the hosts overview table.
  • Performance, Capacity, and Disk mappings tabs are visible to get performance and capacity insights on the hosts respectively.

For more information, see Hosts.

HBAs

  • On clicking, displays the overview of the associated HBAs.
  • You can click the 3 vertical dots menu at the right end of each host row to view the properties of the HBAs.

For more information, see Host adapters.

Drives

  • On clicking, displays the overview of the associated drives.
  • You can click the 3 vertical dots menu at the right end of each drive row to view the properties of the drive.

For more information, see Drives and disks.