The figure below shows the FAMC home page for a typical vCenter. The main portion of the page displays a list of the datacenters you have discovered and, for each datacenter, the VMs to which you have allocated cache. This portion of the page displays the host and VM inventories, the Console Settings page, and so on when you select the link for one of those items in the Navigation area of the left pane.
You can view the disks for a VM by opening the details page for the VM. FAMC displays a Show Me menu in the left pane. Click
VM Disks to navigate to a page showing each disk set up on the virtual machine.
In addition to the Navigation area, the left pane contains a set of menus specific to the page you have selected in the FAMC. If you navigate to the Host Inventory, for example, the pane displays a Selector Tool menu you can use to bulk-select hosts. If you select multiple resources, it displays the bulk actions appropriate for the resource, and a Refine menu that you can use to filter bulk selection.
The upper portion of the FAMC window displays the name of the vCenter Server the
FAMC is connected to, and buttons you can use to perform common tasks: reloading the page, discovering all resources, managing
FAMC user credentials, viewing
Flash Accel help, and logging out of the
FAMC.
The lower portion of the window displays a scroll box for FAMC messages. Informational messages are printed in black text. Error and warning messages are printed in red and orange text, respectively. The lower left of the window shows the version number of the
FAMC. The ID is preceded by an @ symbol. The lower right of the window displays the current time on the
FAMC host, for the time zone specified on the User Account page.
Before you can act on a resource in the FAMC, you need to select it. The basic way to select a resource is to click the check box for it. You can
bulk-select resources across a single datacenter by clicking the check box below the datacenter name in the resource inventory. Use the
FAMC Selector Tool to bulk-select resources across discovered datacenters. The
refine capability lets you home in on resources of interest.
The operational status of the cache refers to the health of the cache on a host, virtual machine, or disk. The factors that determine cache health depend on the resource: for a VM, whether caching is enabled,
whether cache space has been allocated, and so on. A green status icon for a host, virtual machine, or disk always indicates operational health.