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The utilization meter (bar graph) displays network I/O throughput data, if available. The
data is a 5-minute average that is calculated and updated on 5-minute boundaries. If the
data cannot be displayed, the meter is dimmed (as in the meter in the next box below) and
a label indicates the probable cause. For a description of meter labels, see

“Utilization meter

status/error information” (page 127)

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Using VM Manager with Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity, you can click a meter to view
a snapshot of Capacity Advisor historical data for network I/O; this feature is not provided
when using VM Manager from HP SMH.

For more information about using VM Manager to collect and view utilization data, see

Chapter 7 (page 111)

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Allows you to perform an action on the virtual machine or I/O device. Select the box, then
select an action from one of the menus available on the VM Manager menu bar.

Network devices

VM Manager displays icons to represent certain network devices. You can hover your cursor
over the icon to see text describing the representation.

Table 4-2

describes these icons.

Table 4-2 Network device icons

Description

Icon

Physical or virtual network card

Virtual switch

Virtual LAN (VLAN)

A question mark within the device icon, such as

, indicates that the type of device cannot

be determined. The device type cannot be determined, for example, when the device has been
removed from the VM Host but not from the virtual machine.

Screen details

Network tab column layout

Figure 4-7

depicts the column layout for the VM Host Network tab.

VM Host view

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