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View General Information

CA Server Automation displays General Information in the right hand pane and provides resource properties at the following levels in the object hierarchy:

• vCenter Server
• ESX Server
• Resource Pool
• VM

Resource properties include information about the following categories:

• Names, item types, versions
• Quantitative characteristics of CPU and memory
• Number of VMs and Resource Pools
• Current mode of the resource

Additionally, CA Server Automation displays connection state, power state, and Fault Tolerance information on the VM level.

Valid Fault Tolerance status values are:

• Not Fault Tolerant
• Protected
• Not Protected (Starting)
• Not Protected (Need Secondary VM)
• Not Protected (Disabled)
• Not Protected (VM Not Running)

The Secondary Location values are:

• Not Available
• Total Secondary CPU Usage
• Total Secondary Memory

The General Information panel provides details about whether Fault Tolerance is configured, version, and various counts of supported FT VMs. The counts consider:

• Total Primary VMs
• Total Secondary VMs
• Powered On Primary VMs
• Powered On Secondary VMs

The number of VMs represented in the General Information panel is based on the running count of non-FT VMs plus primary FT VMs. Secondary FT VMs are not included in the overall total count of VMs.

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