Managing Flash Accel caching systems : Understanding the user interface

Understanding the user interface
Before configuring caching in your vCenter, you may want to familiarize yourself with the Flash Accel Management Console user interface and with a few elementary tasks that can save you time when you set up virtual machines and disks for caching. Bulk selection, in particular, is a handy way to make sure you are processing all the resources and only the resources you need to process.
Home page and inventories
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.
By default, datacenters, VMs, and hosts are listed in alphabetical order. You can sort the list up or down by any column with a caret icon. You can collapse the list for a datacenter by clicking the minus sign next to its name. Expand the list by clicking the plus sign. Only discovered datacenter resources are displayed.
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.
Menus
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.
Header and footer
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.
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