Virtualization-CY24Q4- Manage and monitor VMs

In this demo, we will use advanced cluster management or ACM to monitor virtual

machines running on OpenShift Virtualization.

Let's dive into how ACM provides a centralized and efficient way to manage and

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In the cluster section, we can see all the clusters that we are managing with

In our case, we only have the local cluster, and we can click on it to see more

These are the nodes of our cluster. All of them are very metal nodes as this is

needed in order to run OpenShift Virtualization.

Now let's have a look at the virtual machines part of the infrastructure menu.

We can see all the virtual machines running in our cluster.

and see their configuration and all of their details.

Here is the definition of the virtual machine in a YAML file.

And we can also see the list of resources that they consume.

This is particularly useful for Kubernetes platform administrators.

winweb02	Running	local-cluster	control-plane-cluster-hzbsp-3	10.134.0.10	Launch	13 hours ago

From the ACM console, we can also perform actions on the virtual machines like

starting, stopping, restarting or pausing them.

winweb02	Stopped	local-cluster	-	-	Launch	13 hours ago

If we click on launch, we will be taken to the local cluster where the virtual

are deployed and we will have full access to their management.

Back in the ACM console, we can see a link to Grafana, where we can find

observability metrics for all the workloads running on our managed clusters.

This includes, of course, the virtual machines.

These dashboards are specific to virtual machines.

Additional Virtual Machines Details(4 panels)

We can see metrics about the operating systems that the virtual machines run,

in which cluster they are, in which node, and their status.

and also about their utilization of resources.

Inventory dashboards / Virtual Machines Inventory

Executive dashboards / Single Virtual Machine View

We also have a centralized view of the alerts for each virtual machine.

In this module, we demonstrated how ACM provides centralized management

machines and we explored the observability features that keep track of their

ACM allows us to efficiently manage and scale our virtual machine deployments

infrastructures, promoting consistency and reducing the potential for human