Navigating the Workload Placement UI

Pages in Virtana Platform UI have several common elements, as indicated in the example images below. The various actions you can perform across pages in the platform include:

A project is created when you upload to Virtana Platform the archive file created from the data collected by VirtualWisdom. After the archive file is processed, an overview of the results are provided.

From the Workload Placement tab, you can:

A card displays for each project that has been created in Virtana Platform. Each card includes the project name and version (which is a secondary identifier for the project). The card also includes the total numbers of compute instances, applications, and move groups contained in the project.

The 2-level naming (project/version) allows you to upload multiple archive files for a single project. The combination of project name and version must be unique. For example, you can have projects named ExampleCo/dev and ExampleCo/finance.

You can click the Environment Overview link to jump to the tab that displays an overview of your environment. Other links, such as applications and groups, become active after the project dependencies have been calculated.

If you click anywhere on the card, other than linked text, you are taken to the Environment Overview tab for the project. You can access the Inventory page from Actions ().

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Create a Project

Verify the Project Import

You can access the Inventory page from Workload Placement. From this page you can:

This page lists all of the compute instances, applications, and move groups contained in a selected project and shows their relationships. It provides insight into which compute instances are contained in an application or in a move group, which applications belong to which move group, etc.

The information about applications on this page should be evaluated and reviewed with application owners to be sure the compute instance details and associations are accurate.

Compute Instances Pane

From the Compute Instances pane you can do the following:

Applications Pane

From the Applications pane, you can do the following:

Move Groups Pane

From the Move Groups pane, you can do the following:

Exclusion Lists

From Exclusion Lists you can do the following:

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Searching and Filtering in Workload Placement

Operators Used in Search Filters

Excluded Resources

This page displays a high-level overview of the inventory and network data that was imported into a Workload Placement project. From here, you can verify that data collection is comprehensive and complete, or if anything seems to be missing or inaccurate.

Use this page to confirm that the displayed number and type of conversations match expectations. Identify resource dependencies based on internal/internal network flow and internal/external network flow. Determine if the number of conversations match NetFlow output.

You can download reports that contain the information provided on the page. You can download individual reports or all reports at once.

From Environment Overview you can view the following:

In the Inventory Summary, you can verify that the numbers in the number of virtual devices in the Total Names/IPs column matches the expected number of virtual devices. The first number in the column is the total number of devices identified in the import file. The second number indicates all of the devices with IP addresses. The discrepancy in numbers is likely due to some devices using the same IP address.

The In Conversations column shows the number of devices for which network traffic was observed during the on-premises data collection. A small discrepancy between this column and the Total column is normal, as some devices might have been powered off or otherwise not participating in network conversations during the data collection period.

In Network Overview, the Network Throughput wheel graph provides a visual representation of network traffic.

The graph displays relationships and throughput rates in all conversations. You can use this to determine if throughput is similar to the on-premise network, as would be expected.

The Conversation Summary provides the number of unique NetFlow conversation types.

The wheel graph shows the dependencies between internal IP addresses, external IP addresses, and compute instances, which are labeled on the outer rim of the wheel. The colored areas inside the wheel indicate connections between these three resources (IP addresses and compute instances). The sizes of the colored connections are a relative reflection of the throughput rates. The larger the connection, the higher the throughput rates, the greater the dependencies between the IP address and compute instance resources.

Hovering over any colored connection inside the wheel highlights that connection. Also, a tooltip displays throughput rates for the selected connection.

Hovering over any section of the outer rim displays a tooltip with detailed information about the resource and highlights all connections to that resource. The tooltip shows the number of compute instances, data in rate, data out rate, and data to self rate.

Use the Network Service Details table to Identify network services and the distribution of bandwidth usage by internal or external entities.

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Verify the Project Import

This page provides a list of related dependencies for each resource that has a specific custom property associated with it. Related dependencies can include move groups, VMs, physical servers, and applications. This information can assist in identifying all objects that will be impacted when moving different resources.

From "Custom Property Name" List (ex.: Zone List) you can:

Clicking an application name in the list opens detailed information about the selected application that includes an Application Dashboard, Client Dependencies, Server Dependencies, and Detailed Network Data tabs.

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Application Detail Tabs

This page is an overview of the dependency analysis across applications. You can use this information to determine which workloads to include in a move group.

This information can help with determining how you might limit impact to performance, avoid costs associated with public cloud egress, etc. when creating move groups.

The Top Talkers list can aid in determining which applications might be harder to move, while the Connections topology diagram can help identify isolated applications that might be easier to move.

From the Analyzed Applications page you can view the following:

You can download the data from all sections of this page in multiple CSV files.

Inventory Summary

Clicking an application name in the list opens detailed information about the selected application that includes an Application Dashboard, Client Dependencies, Server Dependencies, and Detailed Network Data tabs.

Network Overview: Network Throughput and Top Talkers

Hover over any node or connection between nodes to see a tooltip with details.

You can switch between the graphical view and a tabular view using the View Image and View Data icons. You can also download the data in a CSV file.

The Application Top Talkers view provides details about conversations between applications. For each application, you can view the number of entities, IP count, number of services, total NetFlow bit rate, IP count, and other details. You can download the data in a CSV file.

Network Overview: Application Throughput by Network Services

Information about network service relationships is provided for all calculated applications in conversations and for interconnected applications only. The graphical view offers a high-level visual of the relationships. You can also view details in tabular form by clicking View Data, or download the data in a CSV file.

The tabular view of Application Throughput by Network Services displays, for each network service, information about the conversations involving each service. You can see the names of both entities in a conversation, their IP addresses, NetFlow bit rates for each entity, the entity type, etc.

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Application Detail Tabs

Assess Calculated Application Output

You can access these detail tabs by clicking the name of an analyzed application in the Application List or in the Inventory Summary list on the Applications Analysis Summary page.

There are four tabs that provide detailed information about each analyzed application. These tabs are:

Application Dashboard

From the Dashboard you can view the following for each analyzed application:

Client Dependencies Tab

From Client Dependencies you can view the following for each analyzed custom property:

Server Dependencies Tab

From Server Dependencies you can view the following for each analyzed application:

Detailed Network Data Tab

From Detailed Network Data you can view the following for each analyzed custom property:

This page provides a list of the applications, custom groups, individual compute instances, and total compute instances that are part of an individual move group. This list identifies all objects that will be impacted when moving a given move group.

When a move group is finalized and you are ready to migrate the group, you can export the information contained on the Move Group List page and any of its subpages. Tables are exported as XLSX spreadsheets and images are exported as PNG files. You can share the exported data with coworkers for planning, attach it to a work order, submit it to management, etc.

If you click on any of the move group names in the list, a page of details about that move group displays.

This page provides information about network throughput between move groups. You can review this content to determine if the groups you had defined are independent enough (have limited network dependencies between them) to move as-is, or if they need to be modified.

Analyzed Move Groups displays the following information:

In Network Overview, the Network Throughput wheel graph provides a visual representation of network traffic.

Hovering over any colored connection inside the wheel highlights that connection. Also, a tooltip displays information about the connection.

Hovering over any section of the outer rim displays a tooltip with info about the move group and highlights all connections to that move group.

Clicking a section of the outer rim opens a page with details about the selected move group.

This page provides a list of related dependencies for each resource that has a specific custom property associated with it. Related dependencies can include move groups, VMs, physical servers, and applications. This information can assist in identifying all objects that will be impacted when moving different resources.

After you create a custom property from the Inventory page, the property name displays in the navigation pane, below Move Groups. The property name represents a custom group of resources assigned that property. As you assign resources to the group and calculate them, details about the calculated resources begin to show up in the Custom Property List and Analysis Summary.

The navigation pane and the page title reflect the name of the custom property. For example, if you tag resources with a custom property called Zone, then the navigation pane and page title will include the name Zone.

From "Custom Property Name" List (ex.: Zone List) you can:

Clicking the custom property value in the list opens detailed information about the selected value. The details include a Custom Property Dashboard, Client Dependencies, Server Dependencies, and Detailed Network Data tabs.

If a message displays stating that no custom property results are available, or if the list appears but one or more property values are not clickable, then you must calculate the resources from the Inventory page.

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Custom Properties Detail Tabs

Create Custom Properties and Groups

Custom Properties are selected to create a Custom Group. The groups are created from the Inventory page. The data for the custom group is displayed on a page named for that group.

This page provides the following categories of information:

Inventory Summary

Network Overview

You can access the detail tabs by clicking the name of an analyzed custom property in the Custom Property List or in the Inventory Summary list on the Custom Property Analysis Summary page.

There are four tabs that provide detailed information about each analyzed custom property. These tabs are:

Custom Property Dashboard Tab

From the Dashboard you can view the following for each analyzed custom property:

Client Dependencies Tab

From Client Dependencies you can view the following for each analyzed custom property:

Server Dependencies Tab

From Server Dependencies you can view the following for each analyzed custom property:

Detailed Network Data Tab

From Detailed Network Data you can view the following for each analyzed custom property: