This documentation supports releases of BMC Helix Continuous Optimization up to December 31, 2021. To view the latest version, select the version from the Product version menu.

AWS EC2 Instances view

The AWS EC2 Instances view provides detailed information about EC2 instances, EC2 idle instances, and EBS volumes in the AWS cloud environment.

To access the AWS EC2 Instances view, in the navigation pane of Views tab, select Views > Cloud > AWS > AWS EC2 Instances.

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Settings

Use the Settings page to configure the settings for all pages in the AWS EC2 Instances view. To access this page, on the AWS EC2 Instances view page, select Settings Settings icons.png  > Edit Settings.

Maps Settings

  • CPU Utilization %: Modify the required values for displaying the threshold values for the CPU utilization in the Maps page:

    • In the Low Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from 0 to a value below the value in this box are displayed in shades of the color blue.
    • In the Good Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Low Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in shades of the color green.
    • In the Warn Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Good Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in shades of the color yellow.
      The entities with capacity above the value in the Warn Threshold box are displayed in shades of the color red.

  • Memory Utilization %:  Modify the required values for displaying the threshold values for the memory utilization in the Maps page:
    • In the Low Threshold box, edit the threshold value for memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from 0 to a value below the value in this box are displayed in shades of the color blue.
    • In the Good Threshold box, edit the threshold value for memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Low Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in shades of the color green.
    • In the Warn Threshold box, edit the threshold value for memory utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Good Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in shades of the color yellow.
      The entities with capacity above the value in the Warn Threshold box are displayed in shades of the color red.

Other settings

  • Number of VMs that have been idle for the specified number of days.
  • Number of days for which the VM has been idle.
  • Optimization Behavior setting: 
    Optimization behavior
    Description
    Aggressive
    Resource utilization in the server is computed by considering the average value of hourly samples. Spikes in the resource utilization within the hour are not considered. Then, 95th percentile of the hourly value over the last 30 days is computed for each resource to generate the configuration of the target virtual machine or instance type.
    Balanced (Default)
    Resource utilization in the server is computed by considering the 90th percentile value of hourly samples. Only 10% of spikes in the utilization within the hour are not considered. Then, 95th percentile of the hourly value over the last 30 days is computed for each resource to generate the configuration of the target virtual machine or instance type.
    Conservative
    Resource utilization in the server is computed by considering the 99th percentile value of hourly samples. Only 1% of spikes in the utilization within the hour are not considered. Then, 95th percentile of the hourly value over the last 30 days is computed for each resource to generate the configuration of the target virtual machine or instance type.
    InformationIf you select the Conservative or Balanced optimization behavior for a server that is not instrumented, the results are based on the Aggressive behavior.BMC recommends the Conservative behavior for servers that are running business-critical applications.

Data Views

Displays details about when the view was last refreshed. To refresh the AWS views, click Refresh views. After you refresh, all views are scheduled for materialization.

The Refresh views option is available only if your user role has permissions to edit the view. For more information about permissions, see Configuring-authorization-profiles.

Optimizer Thresholds

Click the link to modify the threshold of a metric or an indicator. The Thresholds page in the Helix Capacity Optimization Console opens in a new browser tab or window. For more information about configuring the thresholds, see Configuring-and-managing-thresholds-for-metrics-and-indicators.

Pages in the view

For more information about the pages in this view, see the following topics: 

 

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