The Virtual Storage Console (VSC) dashboard provides an overview of the storage systems and host systems that are configured in your
vCenter Server environment. The dashboard enables you to monitor the performance of all of your top datastores and virtual machines that are configured on a single page.
The Overview section of the VSC dashboard provides information about the datastore capacity, NFS-only space savings, and IOPS of the datastores that are managed by VSC. You can gather the following information using the
Overview section:
The VSC dashboard provides an overall view of the capacity and space savings of the datastores in your vCenter Server at a given time. Except for storage efficiency, all of the information that is available in the dashboard is provided by the
vCenter Server APIs. Storage efficiency is calculated from the data that is provided by ONTAP.
Any issues with the host settings are displayed as alerts in the Host Systems portlet. The dialog box of the alert lists the host systems that have issues. Each host system in the alert dialog box is a link that enables you to navigate to the
Summary tab of the host. You can use the
Edit settings button to apply recommended settings.
The Datastores portlet displays the total number of datastores and the top five datastores in your
vCenter Server based on a selected category. You can categorize the top five datastores in the
Datastores portlet according to one of the following parameters:
The Virtual Machines portlet displays the total number of virtual machines and the top five virtual machines that are using the datastores that are provisioned by VSC. You can categorize the
Virtual Machines portlet according to one of the following parameters:
The About button provides details about the product title and the version number of VSC that is deployed for a selected
vCenter Server and the copyright information. If you enabled linked mode, then all of the VSC instances must be of the same version number.
The Virtual Storage Console dashboard of the virtual appliance for
Virtual Storage Console (VSC), VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) provides an overview of the storage systems, ESXi host systems, datastores, and virtual machines in your
vCenter Server environment. You can monitor the performance of datastores and virtual machines. The dashboard also reports any issues with storage and ESXi hosts.