Dashboard

Dashboard Landing View

After successful login, the vStor dashboard is shown. It presents an overview of the vStor’s performance, such as pool usage, mounted file systems, volumes, disks and replication & offload summary.

Header

The header contains the vStor logo and several controls:

• Dark mode toggle to switch between the light and dark display modes
• User settings with password, multifactor authentication, API key and e-mail options
• Help menu with links to Documentation, Knowledge Base, Support and vStor information
• Notifications area displaying information about recent events
• The log-out button .

The central part of the header is used to display warning and error messages for the user, e.g. concerning license usage. This component displays one message at a time in the form of a carousel, with navigation arrowsandallowing the user to cycle through multiple alerts.

Collapsible Sidebar

The sidebar is the dark blue section on the left-hand side of the window.

Hover over the sidebar and click the blue dot with an arrow pointing left to collapse.

Full-sized sidebar:

Hover over the collapsed sidebar and click the blue dot with an arrow pointing right to expand.

Collapsed sidebar:

Apart from the Dashboard, the sidebar provides access to the following sections of the interface:

• Storage
  Section for managing pools, volumes and disks.
• Shares
  Share and host management section.
• Partnerships
  Section for managing partnerships between vStors. Partnership is a preliminary step to configuring replication or offload.
• Replication
  Section where replication relationships and replication schedules are managed.
• Offload
  Section where offload relationships and offload schedules are managed.
• Admin
  Collapsible section, only visible to administrators. Includes the following subsections:
  • Users
    User management section, visible only for administrators.
  • System
    System settings and management section, visible only for administrators.
  • Tasks
    This section displays current tasks vStor Snapshot Explorer tasks.
  • Audit
    This section lists actions performed by users and system actions triggered by the application.