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Cisco UCS Director provides several different kinds of reports that you can use to view the current status of a pod and its components or to see how the pod or its component have performed over time. All of these reports can be manually refreshed for real-time data and exported to PDF, CSV, or XLS format for you to share with others.
The available reports include:
Summary reports for comparison data and other information about the pod or its components. These reports display in bar, pie, and tabular chart widgets on Summary tabs.
Tabular reports for detailed information about specific components. These reports display in tabs.
Trend graphs for information about the performance of pod resources over time. These reports display in tabs.
Stack views for a graphical bar view of the infrastructure in a VM. These reports display in a pop-up window.
More reports include top 5 reports and other reports for detailed information about high-performing pod resources. These reports display in tabs. You can customize some of these reports.
Summary reports allow you to view the status of your HyperFlex pods and to manage inventory lifecycle actions for the pods and their components. Each report is displayed as a widget on a Summary tab at the pod level and the cluster level.
You can customize your Summary tabs to hide one or more reports. You can export the content of these reports in PDF, CSV, or XLS format. You can also add some or all of these reports to your Cisco UCS Director dashboard for quick access.
The summary reports for a HyperFlex pod include the following in graphical and tabular formats:
Storage capacity of the pod
Cluster nodes in active vs maintenance/failed state
Active VMs vs inactive VMs
Summary of the pod components, including software versions and cluster status
ESXi host versions
For more information about summary reports and reporting in Cisco UCS Director, see the Cisco UCS Director Administration Guide.
Tabular reports provide the status of the components in a HyperFlex pod. You can export the data from any tabular report in PDF, CSV, or XLS format. If you have scheduled inventory collection, the status is updated regularly. Otherwise, you can click Refresh on the tabular report to get real-time status.
You can access tabular reports on any tab after you choose the HyperFlex pod. Reports are available for the following components:
For some components, such as clusters, you can click on a row in the tabular report and access more detailed information through View Details.
Stack views provide information about a HyperFlex VM in a graphical format, including the compute, network, and storage configuration and resources available to that VM.
The stack view data includes:
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Compute |
Network |
Storage |
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OS |
OS installed on the VM |
OS installed on the VM |
OS installed on the VM |
VM |
VM name |
VM name |
VM name |
Network adapter and port |
Virtual disk |
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Hypervisor |
Hypervisor version, IP address, and cluster |
Hypervisor version, IP address, and cluster |
Hypervisor version, IP address, and cluster |
Port group and VLAN |
Datastore |
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VSwitch |
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Infrastructure |
Server where the VM is located |
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HyperFlex storage cluster where the VM is located |
To access the stack view, choose the VM on the VMs tab and then click Stack View.
When you add a HyperFlex pod, Cisco UCS Director discovers and collects the inventory of that pod. You can view the collected inventory and the status of the HyperFlex pod and its components in the summary reports and on the report pages. This status can be updated on a regular schedule through system tasks and manually by component.
The HyperFlex system tasks allow you to schedule inventory collection for each HyperFlex pod. Depending on your business needs, you can set the same schedule for all HyperFlex pods or you can set a different schedule for some pods. You can specify the number of hours or minutes to automatically run the inventory collection and update the status of the HyperFlex pod.
For more information about scheduling system tasks, see the Cisco UCS Director Administration Guide.
Even if you have scheduled inventory collection with system tasks, you can manually perform an inventory collection for a HyperFlex pod or its components. For example, you can manually refresh the inventory and status in the following ways:
Refresh button—Updates the data in summary reports and tabular reports. This action is available for a HyperFlex pod and its components, such as clusters, controller nodes, datastores, disks, and VMs.
Inventory Collection button—Performs an inventory collection for a component of a pod. This action is available for individual components, such as a VM, an ESXi host, or an HX server.
A HyperFlex (HX) cluster is a group of Cisco HX-Series Servers. Each Cisco HX-Series Server in the cluster is referred to as a node or host. You can use Cisco UCS Director to view and manage the following components of your HX clusters:
Cisco UCS Director supports all ESXi host operations on HyperFlex as it does for converged infrastructure, such as FlexPod. In addition, it supports the following additional ESXi host operations for HyperFlex only:
See the Cisco HyperFlex Systems Administration Guide for information about ESXi maintenance mode for ESXi hosts on HyperFlex.
Note | Cisco UCS Director supports only ESXi maintenance mode for ESXi hosts on HyperFlex. Cisco UCS Director does not support Cisco HX maintenance mode. To use Cisco HX maintenance, right-click on the ESXi host in VMware vCenter and follow the prompts. |
Step 1 | On the menu bar, choose . |
Step 2 | in the Navigation pane, choose the HyperFlex pod with the VMs that you want to manage. |
Step 3 | Click the VMs tab. |
Step 4 | Choose the cluster where the VMs are located and click View Details. |
Step 5 | Click the VMs tab. |
Step 6 | Choose the VM
that you want to manage and click one of the following options:
Some of these options are available only if you click the drop-down list on the right of the menu bar.
You can also click View Details on the VM to access trend reports and details about service requests, VM action requests, events, VM snapshots, vNICs, disks, CD ROMs, VM access data, and linked clone VMs. For detailed information about features and actions related to VMware VMs in Cisco UCS Director, see the Cisco UCS Director VMware vSphere Management Guide. |