Using Foglight Capacity Director
Foglight® Capacity Director delivers an essential capacity management for virtual infrastructure. Get deep insight into your environment, including the availability and estimated time left for CPU, memory, storage, and Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPs). Use historical trends to better forecast resource requirements for clusters, hosts, and workloads—and proactively predict and budget for capital expenditures.
The Foglight Capacity Director User Guide is intended for:
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VMware: users who have been assigned the System Administrator, Advanced Operator, Capacity Management Administrator, VMware Administrator, or VMware QuickView User role. |
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Hyper-V: users who is a member of a local group administrators. |
Foglight Capacity Director replaces the functionality previously offered in Foglight Capacity Management in the VMware® and Hyper-V environments.
This section introduces you to the Foglight Capacity Director environment, and provides you with essential information.
For more information, see the following topics:
Installation requirements
Foglight Capacity Director comes installed on Foglight Evolve and can be installed on a Foglight Management Server.
Foglight Capacity Director requires the following cartridges for data collection:
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NOTE: After installing the Virtual-VMware-6.3.0.car cartridge, existing vCenter agents (VC agents) must be updated using the Update Agent button in the VMware Environment > Administration tab. |
Data collection
Dashboard location and UI elements
After installing Foglight Capacity Director , the Capacity Management tab appears in the VMware Environment dashboard.
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The Capacity Management tab consists of the following UI elements:
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