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Foglight for Storage Management Shared 4.6 - Installation Guide

Getting Started Configuring Agents to Monitor Storage Devices
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Installing Foglight for Storage Management

At the end of this procedure, Foglight for Storage Management is installed with a trial license enabled.

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TIP: The installer also installs the components for Foglight for Virtualization EE, so if you are interested in extending your monitoring capabilities to your entire virtualized environment, you can enable a trial license for Foglight for Virtualization EE from within the product.
To install Foglight for Storage Management:
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Start the installation wizard by initiating the executable included on the Foglight for Storage Management installation media.
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Follow the online instructions. You need to accept the terms of the license agreement to install this product.
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When the installation is complete, click Done.
The Foglight for Storage Management login page appears.
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Enter a valid username and password and click Login.
Foglight for Storage Management opens to the Storage Environment dashboard.

Enabling Foglight for Storage Management from Foglight for Virtualization EE

You already have the components for Foglight for Storage Management installed; all you need to do is enable the trial license.

To enable Foglight for Storage Management from Foglight for Virtualization EE:
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Log in to Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition.
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On the navigation panel, under Homes, choose Environment Overview.
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Click the Foglight for Storage Management Start Trial button.
The Foglight for Storage Management trial license is enabled.

Installed Dashboards and Cartridges

Foglight for Storage Management adds a set of storage-specific dashboards to the core Foglight for Storage Management components.

Dashboards

Storage-specific dashboards are located under Storage & SAN in the navigation panel:

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Storage Capacity — Monitor your storage capacity by device type.
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Storage Environment — Configure the monitored storage environment, monitor and investigate storage devices, and maintain the solution.
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Storage Explorer — Investigate issues in storage performance.
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Storage Troubleshooting — Determine if a poorly-performing virtual machine is experiencing storage issues.

Storage information can also be found in the following menus/dashboards:

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VMware or Hyper-V Explorer — Review the entities that make up the virtual environment, from vCenters to datastores or servers. The VMware Explorer and Hyper-V Explorer ships with both Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition and Foglight for Storage Management. When adding Foglight for Storage Management to Foglight for Virtualization EE, you gain the ability to view connectivity diagrams that link datastores to the SAN environment in the following tabs:
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SAN Topology tab — View a diagram showing how the selected entity connects to the storage environment. Click an icon or name to drill down the component dashboard. This tab is available on the following dashboards: Cluster, Datastore, ESX Host, Hyper-V server, and Virtual Machine.
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SAN Data Path tab — View a table and a diagram containing performance metrics for the ports providing I/O to and from storage devices and their components. Click an icon or name to drill down the component dashboard. This tab is available on the following dashboards: ESX Host, Hyper-V server, and Virtual Machine.
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Infrastructure — Review the physical hosts that underlie the virtual environment. The Infrastructure Environment dashboard ships with both Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition and Foglight for Storage Management. When adding Foglight for Storage Management to Foglight for Virtualization EE, you gain the ability to infer the name of physical hosts that are connected to storage devices without having to create Infrastructure agents to monitor physical hosts directly. These hosts are referred to as Inferred Hosts.
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