Foglight Capacity Director 5.8.3

The Server Purchase view is intended to review the cost of replacing the existing infrastructure with new servers, and identify how many additional servers should be purchased in the specified Time Frame. The Server Purchase view contains two panes:

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Planned Changes (left pane): Lists all valid planned changes before the deployment date, and provides the capability to create/edit/remove one or more planned changes. For more information, see Scenario Modeler Tab.

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Server Purchase (right pane): Includes the following elements:

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Select a Cluster: Lists available clusters in the selected virtual center or datacenter.

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Weighting Options: Includes the following weighting options to be used when calculating the cost of replacing the infrastructure: Cost Weight, Power Weight, and Space Weight. Click Recalculate button to perform the calculation.

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Replace Existing Servers tab: Displays details about how many new severs are required to replace the existing servers, without including the planned changes.

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Purchase Additional Servers tab: Displays details about how many new servers should be purchased, based on the calculation of resource utilization and planned changes in the specified Time Frame. For details about how to edit the Time Frame, see Settings Menu .


	NOTE: Servers must be added or imported, to make them visible in the Server List table. For more information, see Managing Server List.

To access the Server Purchase view:

On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Capacity Director.

The Capacity Director dashboard opens.

Use the Group selector located at the top of the dashboard to select the virtual environment that you want to monitor.

On the Menu bar, click the Server Purchase tab.

The Server Purchase view appears at the bottom of the Capacity Director dashboard.

Replace Existing Servers

After selecting a cluster and specifying the weighting options, Foglight Capacity Director populates the recommendation results for replacing the existing servers.

To get recommendations for replacing existing servers:

In the Server Purchase pane, click the Replace Existing Servers tab.

Select a cluster from the Select a Cluster drop-down list.

Type the percent of Weighting Options to be used when calculating the cost of replacing the infrastructure:

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Cost Weight: The percent of server cost.

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Power Weight: The percent of server power.

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Space Weight: The percent of server space.


	NOTE: The sum of Cost Weight, Power Weight, and Space Weight must be equal to 100%.

Click Calculate. This button is changed to Recalculate after executing the calculation the first time.

The Top Recommendation area is updated to show the summary of most recommended server, and the Server List table is updated to show all server types recommended as replacements.


	NOTE: You can review the recommendations provided and customize the results, as needed. For more information, see Managing Server List.

Purchase Additional Servers

After specifying the Time Frame in the Settings dialog, Foglight for VMware populates the recommendation about how many new servers should be purchased in order to meet the requirement of planned changes in the specified Time Frame. For details about how to edit the Time Frame, see .

To get recommendations for purchasing additional servers:

In the Server Purchase pane, click the Purchase Additional Servers tab.

Select a cluster from the Select a Cluster drop-down list.

Type the percent of Weighting Options to be used when calculating the cost of replacing the infrastructure:

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Cost Weight: The percent of server cost.

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Power Weight: The percent of server power.

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Space Weight: The percent of server space.


	NOTE: The sum of Cost Weight, Power Weight, and Space Weight must be equal to 100%.

Click Calculate. This button is changed to Recalculate after executing the calculation first time.

The Top Recommendation area is updated to show the summary of most recommended server and how many servers should be purchased in the specified Time Frame.

The Server List table is updated to show all server types recommended to be purchased.