VxFlex OS GUI Features
Dashboard view
Navigation tree
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the right side of the window. Error
states are indicated by a colored
border around the relevant button.
5 User Name—name of user currently
logged in to the VxFlex OS GUI. To
the right of the user name is the
Logout menu.
The Dashboard displays the overall system status. Each tile displays a certain aspect
of the storage system. Various controls let you customize the information displayed on
the Dashboard. The following figure shows the Dashboard controls.
Figure 16 Dashboard controls
1
Navigation toggle—Displays
navigation tree
2
Current view—Displays object
currently being applied to the
dashboard
3
Dashboard—Displays the Dashboard
view, currently selected
4
Other tabs—Display various views in
the VxFlex OS GUI; some tabs
provide further options when clicked
5
Username—name of user currently
logged in to the VxFlex OS GUI. To
the right of the username is the
Logout menu.
6
System Settings menu—System
Settings, Add Nodes, Upgrade, Log
Collection, Renew Certificates, User
Preferences, About
The Dashboard's navigation button toggles the display of the navigation tree.
The navigation tree is hierarchical, and controls the Dashboard display. You can
display information on the Dashboard according to:
Entire system (default)
l
Protection Domain
l
Storage Pool
l
Click the Navigation toggle at the top left of the screen to display the navigation
tree. You can change the Dashboard display by selecting the desired navigation tree
10
Widget toggle—Minimizes the display to a
widget version of the Dashboard
7
Capacity Utilization toggle—Displays the
physical, allocated, and provisioned
capacity, and several compression ratios
8
Color code legend—Displays the legend
9
I/O Workload toggles—control the
information displayed in this tile. For more
information, see "Customizing system
preferences" in the .
10
Dimmer toggle—Enables\disables the
dimmer
11
Widget toggle—Minimizes the display to a
widget