HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management 6.2 User Guide

Performance information
These sections list information displayed on the Performance tab of the System Page for virtual machine
hosts and guests.
• To determine virtual machine host capacity and virtual machine workload characteristics, use the
performance information.
• To create alerts and log messages based on user-selectable performance values, use the threshold
settings.
Performance color codes
The color codes on the Performance page indicate the percentage of a resource that has been consumed.
The colors of the utilization bar indicate the following conditions:
• Blue—Indicates throughput.
• Green—Indicates utilization is less than 70%.
• Yellow—Indicates utilization is between 70% and 80%.
• Red—Indicates utilization is greater than 80%.
Multisystem aware tools available
Within Systems Insight Manager, you can run tools on multiple systems at once or multisystem aware tools.
The following virtual machine management tools can be multisystem aware:
• Starting virtual machine hosts
• Stopping virtual machine hosts
• Restarting virtual machine hosts
• Pausing virtual machine hosts
• Setting alternate host
• Setting the performance threshold
• Recovering failed hosts of a virtual machine hosts
• Deploying an agent
• Restoring last virtual machine backup
• Defining new virtual machine host collections for all virtual machines
For more information on multisystem aware tools, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide at
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim.
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