Impact of Virtualization on Access Switches

The Impact of Virtualization on Access Switches report provides four charts for each specified switch. These charts display the following:

All charts use the same timeframe, meaning that you can correlate changes across all charts.

Impact of Virtualization on Access Switches report details:

Name	Description
Switch	name of the switch.
Number of connected hypervisors over time	Stack chart provides a daily breakdown of the total number of hypervisors linked to the switch.
Number of connected VMs over time	Stack chart provides a daily breakdown of the total number of VMs, by type, linked to the switch.
Traffic breakdown over time	Stack chart provides a daily breakdown of traffic over the report period, graphing Inbound Virtual Traffic, Outbound Virtual Traffic, Inbound Physical Traffic and Outbound Physical Traffic.
Aggregate Switch Resource Utilization	Line chart graphs switch CPU Utilization and memory usage over the reporting period.

To run an Impact of Virtualization on Access Switches report:

In the Main Menu, click Reports.
This will open the Reports page. Click Virtualization.
This will open the Virtualization page. Click Impact of Virtualization on Access Switches.
This will open the Impact of Virtualization on Access Switches Options page.
If you want to reuse previously saved report values, select it in the Use saved values dropdown field.
Specify the format of the report in the Report format field.
Specify the View containing the device against which the report is to be run in the Please select a View dropdown field.
Specify the device against which the report is to be run in the Please select a device dropdown field.
Specify if you want the Report Period to be a Recent period or across a Range.
Specify the time within the reporting period for which the report is applicable in the Prime Time fields, e.g. between 09:00 and 17:00 each day.
Click Save to save your report values, Run to run immediately, or click Cancel.