Charts

Sun xVM Ops Center provides a variety of system and OS management tools to help you optimize your data center resources. Sun xVM Ops Center gathers information every five minutes and displays data for the following types of managed gear:

• Power Utilization – Power usage for system, chassis, Sun xVM Server, and virtual pools
• CPU Utilization – CPU usage for OS, Sun xVM Server, and virtual pools
• Memory Utilization – Memory usage for OS, Sun xVM Server, and virtual pools
• Network Utilization – Network usage for Solaris OS, Sun xVM Server, and virtual pools
• System Load – System load on the OS

You can display the information in line, bar, or area charts for the following periods:

• 1D – 1 day
• 5D – 5 days
• 3W – 3 weeks
• 6W – 6 weeks
• 6M – 6 months

Note – You can create the usage charts 24 hours after you start to manage the gear.

In the Summary page of any managed gear, the hourly usages of the respective resource types are displayed. The following hourly charts are displayed for different gears in the Summary tab:

• OS: CPU, Memory, and Network
• Sun xVM Server: CPU, Allocated Memory, and Network
• Guest OS: CPU and Network
• Servers: Power

The data is retained for 6 months. However, after the 5th day the data is compressed into larger time intervals as described in the following table:

Note -- Charts will not be displayed if the OS is down or unreachable.

To Display Charts

1. Select a gear from the Gear section in the Navigation panel.
   The Summary page is displayed in the center panel.Hourly charts for CPU, Network and Memory utilization are displayed.
2. Click the Charts tab in the center panel.
3. Select the resource type. You can select more than one resource type to view.
4. Select the type of chart.
   Note – Only the Line type of chart is available when you select more than one resource types. The System Load resource type cannot be combined with other resource types.
5. Move the slide bar to change the Time Period.
   The following intervals are available:
   • 1D - One day
   • 5D - Five days
   • 3W - Three weeks
   • 6W - Six weeks
   • 6M - Six months

A sample chart for a managed OS is given below.

To Display Charts for Solaris Containers

You can display charts for global and non-global zones by selecting the type of zone in the Gear section and then following the above procedure. The CPU, memory, and network usages are gathered from the available resources in the zones pool. Therefore, data for a zone reflects the resource usage by all of the zones sharing the resource.

To Display Charts for Groups

You can display the resource utilization for individual operating systems, or for a group of operating systems. When you select chart OS utilization by group, you can display the 5 highest and the 5 least utilized operating systems in the group.

In the Summary page of the OS group, the hourly usage of resource utilization are displayed. Group charts are displayed as bar charts.

You can view charts for the following resources usages for the managed groups (the charts are displayed for Top/Bottom 5):

A sample chart for a group OS is given below.

Exporting Chart Data

You can use the export feature to create XML or CSV file output.

1. Display the charts as described in the procedures above.
2. Click Export Chart Data.
3. Select the format and time period, and then click Export.
   The data is exported and saved on the system on which you are running the Sun xVM Ops Center BUI.

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