Cisco UCS Director Red Hat Enterprise KVM Management Guide, Release 5.5

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Updated:: June 3, 2016

Chapter: Managing the KVM Connector

Managing the KVM Connector

This chapter contains the following sections:

Viewing Summary Information
Using VM and Host Level Monitoring
Reports
Managing VM Power Settings

Viewing Summary Information

The Summary tab provides tabular data and charts that describe the status of the RHEV KVM cloud account and general trends. The following information is displayed:

VMs Active vs Inactive graphs
Number of VMs (Last Week)
Number of Host Nodes (Last Week)
Memory (Last Week)
Cloud Overview
Host Nodes
New VMs
Deleted VMs

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Administration > Virtual Accounts.
Step 2	Click the Virtual Accounts tab.
Step 3	Choose a cloud account.
Step 4	Click the Summary tab to examine the information.

Using VM and Host Level Monitoring

After creating a RHEV KVM cloud (virtual) account and creating a computing policy, you can monitor your VMs and host-related information.

Viewing Polling Information
Viewing vDCs
Viewing Data Centers
Viewing Clusters
Viewing Host Nodes
Viewing VMs
Viewing RHEV KVM Events
Viewing VM Action Requests
Viewing VM Pools
Viewing Events
Viewing Roles
Viewing Images
Viewing Tags
Viewing Users
Viewing Deleted VMs

Viewing Polling Information

The Hosts tab provides tabular data that describe the current hosts in use in the cloud account. The following information is displayed:

Start Time
Collection Type
Status
Message
End Time

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Polling tab to examine the information.

Viewing vDCs

The vDCs tab provides tabular data that describe the current hosts in use in the cloud account. The following information is presented:

Group.
Type.
Lock State.
Total VMs
Active VMs
Custom Categories
Status

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the vDCs tab to examine the information.

Viewing Data Centers

The Data Centers tab provides tabular data that describe the current pods in use in the cloud account. The following information is displayed:

ID
Name
Status
Storage Type
Description

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Data Centers tab to examine the information.

Viewing Clusters

The Clusters tab provides tabular data that describe the current clusters in use in the cloud account. The following information is displayed:

ID
Name
DC ID
CPU ID
Description

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Clusters tab to examine the information.

Viewing Host Nodes

The Host Nodes tab provides tabular data that describe the current hosts nodes in use in the cloud account. The following information is presented:

ID
Address
Name
Memory (MB)
Status
Port
Cluster ID

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Host Nodes tab to examine the information.

Viewing VMs

The VMs tab provides insight into the VMs used by the RHEV KVM cloud account. The following information is displayed:

Cloud
VM Label
VM Name
Image ID
Power State
Group Name
Category
Provisioned
Scheduled Tenant
Last Status
Guest OS Type
VM Annotation
Custom Attributes

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Administration > Virtual Accounts.
Step 2	Click the Virtual Accounts tab.
Step 3	Choose the RHEV KVM cloud.
Step 4	Click the VMs tab to examine the information.

Viewing RHEV KVM Events

The RHEV KVM Events tab provides tabular data that describe the current RHEV KVM-specific events in use in the cloud account. The following information is displayed:

ID
Name
Status
Storage Type
Description

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the RHEV KVM Events tab to examine the information.

Viewing VM Action Requests

The VM Action Requests tab provides tabular data that describe the current hosts in use in the cloud account. The following information is presented:

VM ID
Action ID
User Name
Comment
Schedule Time
Status

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the VM Action Requests tab to examine the information.

Viewing VM Pools

The VM Pools tab provides tabular data that describe the VM pools in use in the cloud account. The following information is displayed:

Account Name
Name
Description
Size

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the VM Pools tab to examine the information.

Viewing Events

The Events tab provides tabular data that describe the current events in the cloud account. The following information is displayed:

Cloud Name
Severity
Event Time
Event
Event Code
Description
Instance Name
Host Name
VM Type
Parent Node

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Events tab to examine the information.

Viewing Roles

The Roles tab provides tabular data that describe the current roles in use in the cloud account. The following information is displayed:

Account Name
ID
Name
Description
RHEV Controller Reports

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Roles tab to examine the information.

Viewing Images

The Images tab provides insight into the images used by the RHEV KVM cloud account. The following information is displayed:

Image Name
Image Type
Guest OS
Memory (MB)
Number of CPUs
Last time the image was updated

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Administration > Virtual Accounts.
Step 2	Click the Virtual Accounts tab.
Step 3	Choose a RHEV KVM cloud.
Step 4	Click the Images tab to examine the information.

Viewing Tags

The Tags tab provides tag data that describe the current roles in use in the cloud account. Tags allow system resources to be arranged into groups or categories on the RHEV KVM connector. The following information is displayed:

Account Name
ID
Name
Description

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Tags tab to examine the information.

Viewing Users

The Users tab provides information on which users are associated to a particular cloud account. The following information is displayed:

Account Name
ID
Name
Description
User Name

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Users tab to examine the information.

Viewing Deleted VMs

The Deleted VMs tab provides information on VMs which have been deleted for a particular cloud account. The following information is displayed:

Cloud
VM-ID
VM Label
Instance Name
Host Name
IP Address
Image ID
Group Name
Deleted Time

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Deleted VMs tab to examine the information.

Reports

Cisco UCS Director can help you monitor virtual infrastructure and system resources. It displays a wide variety of reports that provide insight into how the system is performing

Following are the types of reports:

Tabular reports for system information, including overview, host nodes, new VMs, and deleted VMs.
Bar and pie graph comparisons, including VMs active versus inactive, and CPU provisioned versus capacity.
Trend graphs about system resources, including CPU trends, memory trends, and VM additions and deletions.
Other reports include Top 5 reports at the group, VDC, host node, and VM levels. The Top 5 reports focus on groups with the highest number of VMs, groups with the greatest CPU usage, VDCs with the highest number of VMs, and host nodes with the greatest CPU usage.
Map reports, displaying the system resource information in the form of heat maps or color-coded maps.

Additional trend reports are available for certain accounts (for example: KVM accounts). Trend reports display data over a selected time frame.

Accessing Reports
Accessing Trend Reports (Summary Level)
Accessing Trend Reports (VM Level)

Accessing Reports

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	From the left panel, choose the cloud name.
Step 3	Choose the tab with the required type of report (Map, Top 5, or More Reports).

Accessing Trend Reports (Summary Level)

The Summary tab provides access to trend reports (at the summary level). Trend reports display data collected over a selected time period. The Duration for Trending drop-down list (right-side of menu bar) lets you choose daily, weekly or monthly durations. The following information is presented (based upon configuration):

Trend: Number of Host Nodes (Last Week)
Memory
Disk
VMs Active vs Inactive
Trend: Number of VMs (Last Week)
Overview
Host Nodes
New VMs
Deleted VMs

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the Summary tab to examine the information.

Accessing Trend Reports (VM Level)

The Details tab provides access to trend reports (at the VM level). Trend reports display data collected over a selected time period. The Duration for Trending drop-down list (right-side of menu bar) lets you choose daily, weekly, or monthly durations. The following information is presented (based on configuration):

Trend: CPU Usage (Percent) (Last Week)
Trend: Memory Consumption (Bytes) (Last Week)
CPU Usage
Memory Usage
Overview
Ownership
Resources
Host Nodes
Display
Hard Disk 1
Nic 1
Catalog Details

Before You Begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Step 1	On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.
Step 2	Click a RHEV KVM cloud account.
Step 3	Click the VMs tab.
Step 4	Click View Details.

Managing VM Power Settings

Before You Begin

You must be logged in to the appliance to complete this task.

Step 1

On the menu bar, choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

Choose the cloud name.

Step 3

To bring up virtual machine (VM) actions, choose the VMs tab.

Step 4

Choose an action and the VM Task dialog box appears.

Name

Description

VM Name display-only field

The name of the VM that is the subject of the action.

Power Off display-only field

The task to power off the VM.

Power On display-only field

The task to power on the VM.

Suspend display-only field

The task to put the VM in a suspended state.

Shutdown Guest display-only field

The task to shut down the guest OS on the VM.

Standby display-only field

The task to move the VM into a standby state.

Note

Not supported in the RHEV KVM Connector.

Reset display-only field

The task to perform a hard reset of the VM.

Note

Not supported in the RHEV KVM Connector.

Reboot display-only field

The task to perform a soft reboot of the VM.

Note

Not supported in the RHEV KVM Connector.

Comments field

Enter any comments that help identify the VM.

Schedule Action radio button

The task to power on a VM now or later at a specific date and time.

Step 5

Click Proceed.

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