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Availability Zone Details dashboard

The Availability Zone Details dashboard provides a detailed summary of an OpenStack Availability Zone entity.

Within the dashboard the following capacity insights are presented:

  • Aggregated Utilization values over the last 30 days for the following metrics: CPU, Memory, and Storage
  • Total count of all underlying OpenStack entities related to the selected OpenStack Cloud
  • Capacity related metrics displayed in a timeseries chart


Warning

Important

Do not make the dashboard editable by using the Make editable option in the dashboard settings. If you want to customize the dashboard, we recommend that you create a copy of the dashboard and customize it.


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Filters

Filters can be found in the upper left portion of the dashboard. The following filters are:

  • Cloud → Filters most, if not all, panels to only focus on the specified Cloud selected
  • Region → Filters most, if not all, panels to only focus on the specified Region selected
  • Availability Zone → Filters most, if not all, panels to only focus on the specified Availability Zone selected



Panels

The Availability Zone Details Dashboard consists of multiple panels that give insight into the capacity and health of the selected OpenStack Availability Zone entity.

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Name

Name of the OpenStack Availability Zone entity.

CPU, Memory, & Storage Utilization Values

The hourly average datapoints aggregated over the last 30 days. Displayed for the following metrics: CPU, Memory, and Storage

Tags

The tags assigned to the selected OpenStack Availability Zone entity.

Entity Count

Displays the total entity counts for all the entities related to the OpenStack Availability Zone entity:

  • Virtual Clusters - VMware
  • Virtual Hosts – VMware
  • Virtual Machines - VMware
  • Virtual Hosts – KVM
  • Virtual Machines – KVM

Type

Entity Type of the OpenStack Availability Zone entity as defined in BMC Helix Continuous Optimization (BHCO).


Availability Zone Details

A collapsible row that presents timeseries charts of relevant metrics for the specifically selected Availability Zone.

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CPU Cores, vCPUs, Overcommit Ratio

A chart that displays the CPU Cores (CPU_NUM), VCPUs (VCPU_NUM), and Overcommit Ratio (VCPU_NUM / CPU_NUM) over time. The time is controlled by the hand time picker in the top right of the dashboard page.

CPU Utilization

A chart that displays the CPU Utilization (CPU_UTIL) over time. The time is controlled by the hand time picker in the top right of the dashboard page.

Memory Utilization

A chart that displays the Memory Utilization (MEM_UTIL) over time. The time is controlled by the hand time picker in the top right of the dashboard page.

Datastore Utilization

A chart that displays the Total Datastore Size (TOTAL_DSTORE_SIZE), Total Datastore Used (TOTAL_DSTORE_USED), Total Ephemeral Disk Provisioned (TOTAL_EPHEMERAL_DISK_PROVISIONED) and Total Ephemeral Disk Size (TOTAL_EPHEMERAL_DISK_SIZE) over time. The time is controlled by the hand time picker in the top right of the dashboard page.

 

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