Allows You to Mark Physical NIC Ports with Network Type

ZStack Cloud 4.7.11 adds a new page Physical Network. On the main menu of ZStack Cloud, choose Resource Center > Hardware > Network Facility > Physical Network. Then, the Physical Network page is displayed.

On the Physical Network page, you can attach network-type tags to a physical NIC port to mark the type of the network it resides on. Currently, five network-type tags are supported: Management Network, Storage Network, Business Network, Backup Network, and Migration Network. The management network tags are attached to corresponding ports automatically by the system and other tags are attached by yourself.

Physical NIC ports with tags are displayed on the Physical Network page. You can view them by Cluster or by network type.

Flow Monitoring on Network of Different Types

After the network categorization, you can view the flow monitoring of different network types on Dashboard, on the cluster details page, or on the host details page.

Dashboard: Dashboard provides a Total Host Network IO chart. The chart displays the out/in speed sum of all physical NIC ports in the current zone by default. You can specify one or more network types to view the data only of the corresponding NIC ports.

Cluster Details Page: The cluster details page provides a NIC Out/In Sum chart. The chart displays the out/in speed sum of all physical NIC ports in the current cluster by default. You can specify one or more network types to view the data only of the corresponding NIC ports.

Host Details Page: The host details page provides a NIC chart. The chart monitors the out/in situation of all physical NIC ports on this host. You can specify one or more network types to view the data only of the corresponding NIC ports.