Foglight Capacity Management 5.7.7

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Capacity and Bottlenecks Scenario Modeler Create Usage Scenario Open Usage Scenario Edit Properties Delete Scenario Select Hosts Select Target Included Hosts Excluded Hosts

Using Capacity Management Charts

Changing Chart Types

Change Chart Types Export Capacity Management Results Gathering Additional Data from Charts

Locating the Capacity Management Dashboard

After installing Foglight™ for Capacity Management, the Capacity Management tab appears in the Hyper-V Environment dashboard.

After installing Foglight™ Capacity Manager, the Capacity Management tab appears in the VMware Environment dashboard. For the information about using Foglight Capacity Manager in a VMware Environment, see the Foglight Capacity Manager User Guide.

To access the Capacity Management dashboard:

Ensure that the navigation panel is open.

To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow

on the left.

On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click VMWare > VMware Environment.

On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Hyper-V > Hyper- V Environment.

The selected dashboard appears with the Capacity Management tab.

Figure 2. Dashboard with Capacity Management tab in Hyper-V

Using Foglight for Capacity Management in a Hyper-V Environment

Foglight™ for Capacity Management provides a broad platform of tools to project capacity changes to your IT Infrastructure. Using the Capacity Management Tab, addition of VMs to servers can easily be projected. Reports can be generated providing details of server capacity limitations.

Figure 3. Hyper-V Environment

The VMware Environment dashboard provides the following tabs:

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Capacity and Bottlenecks

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Scenario Modeler


	NOTE: Any hosts being monitored by Foglight are automatically displayed in the Hyper-V Environment dashboard.

Monitoring Tab

This tab provides an overall analysis of all components in your Hyper-V® environment. Tiles representing a virtual environment type (for example, Virtual Machines, Servers, Clusters, and so on, on the Hyper-V Environment dashboard) display along with status alarm of the environment health state severity (Normal, Warning, Critical, Fatal). The Quick View displays information about the monitored virtual components just below the tile collection, reflecting the tile selection.

Figure 4. Quick View