Clarify vCPUs Usage legend for hypervisors
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) |
In Progress
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Low
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Revon Mathews | ||
Bug Description
The vCPUs usage chart is confusing because it can end up with values like "Used 5 of 4".
(see e.g. https:/
This may be improved in Nova as part of bug 1202965 but I think if it is possible we should try to make the meaning clearer in Horizon. Chatting with a Nova developer and based on the discussion on that other bug as well, the actual meaning is: "This hypervisor has 4 cores and is running VMs with a total of 5 vCPUs." - which is a bit too long for the chart legend itself.
I'd like to suggest adding a star (*) after the small chart legend and putting this full sentence as a legend below the chart series. It may not be the best UI but hopefully it will help with reducing confusion - I'm including the UX tag on this so UX folks can hopefully add their input as well.
| Changed in horizon: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Nikunj Aggarwal (nikunj2512) |
| Liz Blanchard (lblanchard) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in horizon: | |
| assignee: | Nikunj Aggarwal (nikunj2512) → nobody |
| Changed in horizon: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Revon Mathews (revon-mathews) |
| Changed in horizon: | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
Is this something that will be fixed when the nova bug is fixed? If not, we might want to think about breaking out vCPUs and Cores into two separate graphs. If they really make sense to be together, we could represent the data a bit clearer to avoid confusion in the future.