A diverse set of system usage reports is available to provide
specific data for your planning purposes.
Before you begin
The system usage reports are used to track the physical
and virtual resources that are used in the cloud. You can view all
the reports as either a Cloud group administrator or as a Hardware administrator with Read-only access. However, when a report contains the name
of a compute node, you must be assigned the Hardware administration role with permission to View hardware resources (Read-only) to click the compute node page and view the
details of the compute node. When a report names a cloud group, IP
group or virtual machine, you must be assigned the Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud groups (Read-only) to click the name to view the details of
that entity.
About this task
You can generate reports on virtual machine activity, storage,
cloud groups, and compute nodes. There are various filters that you
can use to provide specific information in the report table.
Procedure
- Click .
- Click the report that you want to view.
You
can view the following reports:
- Allocation by cloud group
- This report shows data to track application resources, historic
usage pattern, averages, and future trends of cloud groups. You can
view resource allocations that are categorized by CPU, memory, and
instances.
- Allocation by compute node
- This report shows historic usage patterns, averages, and future
trends of CPU and memory use, and the associated cloud group of all
compute nodes on the rack. You can use the report to identify compute
nodes that are not used at their capacity and also overloaded compute
nodes. Resource allocations are categorized by CPU and memory.
Note: The
sum of the 30-day average for CPU or memory usage across all compute
nodes might not equal to the sum of the 30-day average CPU or memory
usage across all cloud groups. This difference appears because the
cloud group averages might reflect usage by compute nodes that were
deleted in the last 30 days and therefore do not appear in the current
compute node report.
- IP usage by IP group
- This report shows the IP address usage by IP groups in the system.
The IP usage by IP group report provides easy problem determination
by filtering capabilities.
- Storage allocation by cloud group
- This report shows the storage allocation by cloud group in the
system. You can quickly find resources that are allocated to an application
and how critical it is in making business impact. If utilization is
less than or higher than the prescribed limits of your organization,
you can rebalance the CPU and memory utilization.
- For more information about the contents of this report, see the Related
reference section.
- Virtual machine usage
- For more information about the contents of this report, see the Related
reference section.
Each report includes a filterable table and a graphical
chart. The next steps explain how to filter the reports and read the
graphic output.
Note: Deleted VMs are displayed in the report
with a state of Non-existent. They are removed
from the report 30 days after the delete operation.
- Click the Column Name field and
select a column name or start typing a column name.
- Click the Comparator field to select
an operation.
- Click the Desired Value field and
enter an appropriate value.
For the Combine operation,
this value is not needed and is ignored.
The following list is
the available comparator values that you can use to customize your
reports:
- Starts with
- Use this operation to search for alphanumeric matches the specified
starting characters with the specified column's value.
- Sample usage: To look for all production cloud groups: 'Cloud
group starts with Prod'
- Does not start with
- Does the opposite of Starts with.
- Sample usage: To look for all non-active nodes: 'State does not
start with Active'
- Equals
- Use this operation to search for alphanumeric matches. Use the
wildcard * to substitute any unknown characters.
- Sample usage:
- To look for an exact match: 'Name equals Planner'
- To look for starting match: 'Name equals Plan*'
- To look for ending match: 'Name equals *lanner'
- To look for containing match: 'Name equals *lan*'
- To look for numeric match: 'Peak CPU equals 10'
- Does not equal
- Does the opposite of Equals.
- Sample usage: To look for containing match: 'Name does not equal
*lan*' To look for a numeric match: 'CPU does not equal 10'
- Is blank
- Use this operation to search for items that are blank.
- Sample usage: 'Name is blank'
- Is not blank
- Use this operation to search for items that are not blank.
- Sample usage: 'Client Name is not blank'
- Greater than
- Use this operation to filter numeric columns that are greater
than the value entered for the Desired Value field.
- Sample usage: 'Peak CPU greater than 10' 'Peak CPU > 10'
- Less than
- Use this operation to filter numeric columns that are less than
the value entered for the Desired Value field.
- Sample usage: 'Peak CPU less than 10' 'Peak CPU < 10'
- Combine
- Use this operation to sum numeric values for all the rows that
contain a common element. For example, combining State on the Allocation
By Compute Node shows total number of CPUs allocated for each state.
When you use the Combine comparator, you need
to enter only the column name. If you enter a Desired Value,
it is ignored.
- Sample usage: 'State combine' 'Application combine'
- After the filter fields are updated, click Add to
filter the list.
- Show and hide columns in the report by right-clicking the
column header and selecting the check box for each column that you
want displayed. If you log off or your session times out, the default
view is displayed the next time you log in.