This documentation page describes the Horizon Accelerator Control Center feature for viewing the provider resources that are used for your Horizon Cloud Service - next-gen environment.

This feature is available for use in the Horizon Universal Console when you have the Horizon Accelerator add-on license.

Currently, this feature is available for use with the Microsoft Azure capacity provider.

Introduction

With the Horizon Accelerator Control Center you get visibility into the provider resources that are used by your next-gen environment while at the same time avoiding the need to log into each provider's UI or portal and examine each individual resource.

The following screenshot illustrates the location of this Provider Resources view within the console, Accelerator > Provider Resources and how this view is displayed for a Microsoft Azure provider.


A screenshot that depicts the Provider Resources view.

The provider selection list in the upper-right side of this view reflects each provider configured in your next-gen environment. This list makes it easy to select a particular provider's resources to display.


Screenshot with a green arrow pointing to the provider selector list.

To view the information about each resource type, expand its section.

When you expand a section, the system retrieves the data, so that you have the up-to-the-minute information.

The following screenshot illustrates an example of an expanded section. The subscription information is redacted for privacy.


Screenshot that illustrates the Resources Group information for a Microsoft Azure provider

Microsoft Azure Provider - Resource Types

In the current release, the Provider Resources view provides data for the following resources that your next-gen environment uses from the Microsoft Azure providers configured for it.

For each of these resource types, when you expand a category in the UI, the system calls an Azure API to retrieve the up-to-the-moment data from Microsoft Azure and the subscription in which the resources reside.

For each displayed resource type, the system provides the data that corresponds to the specific resource provider that's selected in the upper right list at the top of the Provider Resources view.

Tip: For Microsoft Azure, the provider is based on an Azure subscription. The displayed data is specific to the resources located in the subscription associated with the provider that you select in the upper-right selection list.

For each resource type, the system obtains information according to characteristics that the Azure API provides for that specific resource type. For example, even though Azure provides for a characteristic of provisioning state for resource groups, Azure does not provide that characteristic for network interfaces.

As a result, the UI section for each resource type contains columns and filters based on what the system's API call to Azure returns for that resource type.

The displayed columns are the characteristics that Azure associates with the resource type.

When Azure defines and supports specific values for a particular characteristic, you can filter on those known values using the filter icon in the column heading.

Note: For state-related characteristic, the values you see in those columns are based on values that Azure returns to the system's API call. Azure documentation refers to these values as the known values supported by the service. Over time, Azure might add new known values or update the specific names that it uses for its known values. The state-related values indicated in the following lists are current as of this writing.
Resource Groups
Lists the resource groups in that provider and displays information about each, such as its Azure region. The Provisioning State column indicates the deployment status for each resource group.
  • Resource Group Name - Name of the resource group.
  • Provisioning State - For this state-related characteristic, Azure reports values of Succeeded, Failed, Deleting, Updating.
  • Subscription ID - ID of the associated Azure subscription.
  • Region - Name of the Azure region in which the resource resides.
Virtual Machines
Lists the virtual machines in that provider and displays information about each, such as its NIC and IP address.
  • Virtual Machine Name - Name of the virtual machine (VM).
  • Subscription ID - ID of the associated Azure subscription.
  • Resource Group - Name of the resource group.
  • Network Interface Name - Name of the network interface (NIC) attached to the VM.
  • Virtual Network Name - Name of the VNet attached to the NIC.
  • IP Address - IP address set on the NIC.
  • Virtual Machine Size - The Azure VM model used for the VM.
Disks
Lists the disks in that provider and displays information about each, such as disk state and disk size.
  • Disk Name - Name of the disk.
  • Disk State - For this state-related characteristic, Azure reports values of Unattached, Attached, Active SAS, Active SAS Frozen, Frozen, Active Upload, Ready to Upload, Reserved.

    For precise definitions of all of these Azure known values, see the Disk State type page in the Azure documentation.

    The disk states that you will typically see for a next-gen environment are Attached, Reserved, and Unattached. Attached disks are attached to running VMs. Reserved disks are attached to stopped-deallocated VMs. Unattached disks are not being used by any VM.

  • Subscription ID - ID of the associated Azure subscription.
  • Resource Group - Name of the resource group.
  • Region - Name of the Azure region in which the resource resides.
  • Disk size (GB) - Size of the disk.
Note: As described in the Azure documentation, an unattached disk state means that disk is being used within that subscription. That is, the disk was previously attached to a desktop, and even though the desktop is deleted, the disk still exists on the Azure side.
Tip: When you have floating desktop pools, if you see that this Disks view lists multiple Unattached disks for that pool's resource group, a best practice is to delete those unattached disks to avoid costs in Microsoft Azure. An unattached state typically indicates that the disk is providing no use, and might have been orphaned from a deleted floating desktop.
Network Interfaces
Lists the network interfaces in that provider and displays information about each, such as which resource group they reside in.
  • Network Interface Name - Name of the network interface (NIC).
  • Subscription ID - ID of the associated Azure subscription.
  • Resource Group Name - Name of the resource group.
  • Region - Name of the Azure region in which the resource resides.
Virtual Networks
Lists the virtual networks (VNets) in that provider and displays information about each, such as its peering status. For each VNet, this view lists its defined address prefixes.
  • Virtual Network Name - Name of the VNet.
  • Provisioning State - For this state-related characteristic, Azure reports values of Succeeded, Failed, Deleting, Updating.
  • Subscription ID - ID of the associated Azure subscription.
  • Resource Group Name - Name of the resource group.
  • Address Prefix - Address prefix in that VNet.
  • Peering State - For this state-related characteristic, Azure reports values of Connected, Disconnected, Initiated.
Storage Accounts
Lists the storage accounts in that provider and displays information about each, such as which resource group they reside in.
  • Storage Account Name - Name of the storage account.
  • Subscription ID - ID of the associated Azure subscription.
  • Resource Group Name - Name of the resource group.
  • Region - Name of the Azure region in which the resource resides.
Availability Sets
Lists the availability sets in that provider and displays information about each, such as which resource group they reside in.
  • Availability Set - Name of the availability set.
  • Subscription ID - ID of the associated Azure subscription.
  • Resource Group Name - Name of the resource group.
Public IP Addresses
List the public IP addresses in that provider and displays information about each, such as their allocation method ( static, dynamic).
  • Public IP Name - Name of the public IP.
  • Provisioning State - For this state-related characteristic, Azure reports values of Succeeded, Failed, Deleting, Updating.
  • Public IP - The IP address of this public IP.
  • Public IP Version - IPv4 or IPv6.
  • IP Allocation Method - Azure returns value of Dynamic or Static.
  • Idle Timeout (mins) - Timeout value for the public IP.
  • Subscription ID - ID of the associated Azure subscription.
  • Region - Name of the Azure region in which the resource resides.

UI Actions - Filter, Manage Columns, Refresh, and Export

Each section provides for these standard actions.

Filters
Each column heading provides a filtering icon. If you set filters on a column and then export the data, only the filtered data is exported into the CSV file.
Manage Columns
Use this feature to show and hide columns from the display.
Refresh
When you expand a section, the system fetches the data from the resource provider and displays the data. At the time you expand a section, the data you see is the up-to-the-moment data about that resource as it is in the provider selected in the upper-right-corner list.

Within each section, if you have been viewing the data for a while and want to fetch the latest data, click Refreshin that section to populate that section with the up-to-the-moment data.

Export
Within each section is an Export button for exporting the data in CSV format and making the CSV file available in the console's Downloads page.

If you have set any of the column filters, those filters are applied to the exported data.

Upon clicking Export, a dialog box displays and provides a field for you to customize the file name. You can either type in a new name or accept the displayed default value.

When ready, the system makes the file available for download from the console's Downloads page (Monitor > Downloads.

Note: By default, the system has a 30-day expiration time for the files on the Downloads page. After 30 days, the files are deleted from the system.