Patent ID: 8013859

Claim:
A method for presenting information about a group of computer systems as a graphical representation rendered on a display, wherein each of the computer systems has multiple sub-systems, the method comprising: receiving usage data of a first computer system, the usage data indicating overall resource usage of said first computer system and resource usage of each of the sub-systems of said first computer system; receiving usage data of a second computer system, the usage data indicating overall resource usage of said second computer system and resource usage of each of the sub-systems of said second computer system; rendering the usage data of the first computer system as a first graphic on the display, wherein the first graphic is subdivided into a plurality of sections, each indicating the resource usage of one of the sub-systems of the first computer system; and rendering the usage data of the second computer system as a second graphic on the display adjacent the first graphic, wherein the second graphic is subdivided into a plurality of sections, each indicating the resource usage of one of the sub-systems of the second computer system; wherein the first and second computer systems are host computer systems of a virtualized computer system, and the sub-systems of the first and second computer systems are virtual machines that are running on the host computer systems.