Cloud performance view

In Infrastructure Management, the cloud performance view (multiple pane view) provides the cloud administrator and the cloud operator a unified view of the performance and availability of the infrastructure resources supporting and providing the cloud.

The cloud infrastructure is organized and presented in terms of the cloud topology. In this case, the target cloud environment is managed by the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. The operations environment is thus segmented into corresponding pods, network containers, and virtual machine (VM) hierarchy, with the fabric resources organized in terms of compute pools. The cloud performance view highlights these two facets of the cloud environment in its multiple pane view as shown in the figure below:

The cloud operator can use the cloud performance view as the top level view to obtain a holistic perspective of the cloud resources. The topology heat map enables an at-a-glance assessment of the cloud environment in terms of the health of the network containers and the corresponding pods grouped by location. By default, the tile sizes reflect the number of VMs hosted within the network containers of the pod (as a measure of the relative importance) and the color reflects the state of the cloud entity. Similarly, the tile view panel depicts the compute pools in the environment, representing the cloud fabric that supports the provisioning activity in the cloud. BMC recommends sorting this view by status (the default), so that the compute pools with issues are more readily visible.

BMC also recommends using the topology heat map to quickly identify (potential) troublesome spots in the cloud environment and to use the Details window to obtain more information about the state of the impacted network container instance and the associated resources.

Similarly, you can use the compute pools panel to identify (potential) infrastructure issues. The Details window provides more information about the underlying infrastructure elements.

The centralized cloud performance view enables the cloud operator to track the entire managed cloud environment from a performance and availability perspective. It also provides sufficient details at the next level to enable the operator to narrow down the entities and investigate further, and to troubleshoot and resolve potential issues. For the actual troubleshooting process, BMC recommends switching to the full operator console of the specific Child Server that is managing the target entity. The cloud performance view supports a seamless cross-launch to the appropriate Operations Console of the correct Child Server.