4.2. Viewing Hardware Resources

4.2. Viewing Hardware Resources

The oVirt Server Suite User Interface page provides an overview of the resources, their availability, and current levels of load of the entire system, or any part of it, depending on your selection of nodes in the Navigator panel.

To view a summary of a specific hardware pool:

  1. Use the Navigator panel to select the required hardware pool node.

  2. Click the pool name and the Summary Page displays on the Contents Pane.

  3. The number of CPUs, amounts of used and available memory, storage and virtual resources appear in both a graphical and list form. Information on the history, performance and network traffic is also displayed.

  4. To view information on the physical host machines in this hardware resource pool, click Hosts on the menu bar. The Hosts page displays the list of hosts in the resource pool.

  5. To view information on the storage in this hardware resource pool, click Storage on the menu bar. The Storage page displays the list of storage servers in the resource pool.

  6. The Details Pane at the bottom of the Contents page displays details of the selected resource.

4.2.1. Viewing Hardware Resource Details

To view details of a hardware resource:

  1. Use the Navigator panel to select the required hardware pool node.

  2. Click the pool name and the Summary Page displays on the Contents pane and the Details pane across the lower part of the pane.

  3. The Details pane shows the default quota of the hardware resource. It also contains the Edit, Edit Default Quota and Delete Default Quotabuttons.

    • The number of CPUs

    • Memory - amounts of used and available Memory

    • NICs - number of network connections in the resource

    • VMs - number of virtual machines running in this resource

    • Disk - the amount of storage - in gigabytes.

  4. You can review the information and choose to change details of the resource in the Details pane.