Managing the KVM Connector

This chapter contains the following sections:

Viewing Summary Information


Note

If the network in the Red Hat KVM account is configured with both, management and VM type, then the Network Usage column in the user interface displays only VM.

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the summary.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Summary to examine the 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:

  • Number of Host Nodes (Last Week)

  • Memory (Last Week)

  • Disk

  • VMs Active vs Inactive graphs

  • Number of VMs (Last Week)

  • Cloud Overview

  • Host Nodes

  • New VMs

  • Deleted VMs

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

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the polling information.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Polling to examine the information.

The Polling tab provides tabular data that describe the polling information in use in the cloud account. The following information is displayed:

  • Start Time

  • Collection Type

  • Status

  • Message

  • End Time

Viewing vDCs

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the VDC details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click vDCs to examine the information.

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

  • Group

  • vDC

  • Type

  • Lock State

  • Total VMs

  • Active VMs

  • Custom Categories

  • Status

Viewing Data Centers

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the data center details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Data Centers to examine the information.

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

  • Account Name

  • Name

  • Description

  • Storage Type

  • Storage Format

  • Status

  • Minor Version

  • Major Version

  • Minor Supported Version

  • Major Supported Version

Viewing Clusters

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the cluster details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Clusters to examine the information.

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

  • Account Name

  • Name

  • Description

  • On Error

  • Scheduling Policy

Viewing Hosts

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the host details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Hosts to examine the information.

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

  • Name

  • Is Storage Manager

  • Ksm Status

  • OS Type

  • Type

  • IP Address

  • State
Step 6

Click the row with a host and click View Details to view the VMs, service request details, events, deleted VMs, details, NICs, and more reports of the host node.

Viewing VMs

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the VM details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click VMs to examine the information.

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

  • Cloud

  • VM ID

  • VM Label

  • VM Name

  • Host Name

  • IP Address

  • Image ID

  • Power State

  • VM Protected

  • Group Name

  • VDC

  • Category

  • Provisioned Time

  • Scheduled Termination Time

  • Last Status Update

Viewing RHEV KVM Events

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the RHEV KVM events details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click RHEV KVM Events to examine the information.

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:

  • Account Name

  • ID

  • Description

  • Severity

  • Code

  • Origin

  • Time

Viewing VM Action Requests

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the VM action request details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click VM Action Requests to examine the information.

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

  • VM ID

  • Action ID

  • User Name

  • Comment

  • Schedule Time

  • Status

Launching the SPICE Console for a VM


Important

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) console is supported with only Windows and Linux client browsers.

Before you begin

  • Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

  • The VM must be powered on.

  • Virtual Viewer must be installed.

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Choose a RHEV KVM cloud account and click VMs.

Step 4

Choose a VM from the list and click Launch SPICE Console.

Step 5

In the Download SPICE Console File screen, review the information displayed, and click Submit.

Step 6

Choose a location on the system to download and save the console-related files.
Step 7

Access the folder in which the file was downloaded to, and extract the contents of the file.
Step 8

Double-click the console file to launch the SPICE console for the VM.

Viewing VM Pools

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the VM pool details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click VM Pools to examine the information.

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

Viewing Events

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the event details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Events to examine the information.

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 ID

  • Event Code

  • Description

  • Instance Name

  • Host Name

  • VM Type

  • Parent Node

Viewing Roles

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the role details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Roles to examine the information.

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

  • Is Mutable

  • Is Administrative

Viewing Images

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the image details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Images to examine the information.

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

  • Description

  • Image ID

  • Image Name

  • Guest OS

  • Memory (MB)

  • Number of CPUs

  • Last time the image was updated

  • Tag

Click the row with the image and click View Details to view the disks and NICs details of the image.

Viewing Tags

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the tag details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Tags to examine the information.

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

Viewing Users

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the user details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Users to examine the information.

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

  • Account Name

  • ID

  • Name

  • User Name

Viewing Deleted VMs

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the data center details.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Deleted VMs to examine the information.

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

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

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, choose the cloud.

Step 3

Click the name of the report that you want to view (Map, Top 5, or More Reports).

Accessing Trend Reports (Summary Level)

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the report.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click Summary to examine the information.

The Summary tab provides access to trend reports (at the summary level). Trend reports display data collected over a selected time period. The drop-down list (at the right-side of menu bar) lets you choose last day, last week, or last month durations for the trending report. 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

Accessing Trend Reports (VM Level)

Before you begin

Create a cloud account (RHEV KVM).

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, click Clouds.

Step 3

Click the row with the RHEV KVM cloud account for which you want to view the trend report at VM level.
Step 4

Click View Details.

Step 5

Click VMs.

Step 6

Click the row with the VM for which you want to view the trend report.
Step 7

Click View Details.

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

Managing VM Power Settings

Before you begin

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

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Virtual > Compute.

Step 2

On the Compute page, choose the cloud.

Step 3

On the Compute page, click VMs.

Step 4

Click the row with the VM on which you want to perform an action.
Step 5

Choose an action and the VM Task screen 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 6

Click Proceed.