Managing chargeback
In an IT environment with a high number of physical and virtual machines, it is often important to determine the true cost of virtual machines in order to adequately plan resources for system utilization. The Chargeback tab available on the VMware Environment dashboard provides standard models, allowing you to get insight into host machine usage within a data center.
For complete information about this tab, see the Managing Chargeback User Guide.
Managing capacity
Larger distributed environments often require tools for accurately predicting resource consumption in order to plan for continuous expansion of virtual and physical machines and prevent bottlenecks in your production environment. The Capacity Management tab available on the VMware Environment dashboard allows you to get insight into capacity bottlenecks and management.
For complete information about this tab, see the Managing Capacity in Virtual Environments User Guide.
Optimizing resources
With virtual machines quickly becoming the industry standard in an IT infrastructures, making it necessary to plan for the addition of virtual machines to the physical hosts. This is often a challenge for administrators. Foglight™ Resource Optimizer simplifies the optimization process, providing waste-finding and right-sizing functionality for virtualized environments. The Optimizer tab appearing on the VMware Environment dashboard allows you to get insight into capacity bottlenecks and management. Use this tab when you want to optimize the CPU, memory, network, and storage consumption, and to project and plan for additional requirements in your environment.
For complete information about this tab, see the Foglight™ Resource Optimizer for VMware Environments User Guide.
Generating reports
You can generate, copy, and edit reports using the Reports tab on the VMware Environment dashboard, or alternatively the Reports dashboard included with the Management Server.
For complete information about this tab, see the Managing Capacity in Virtual Environments User Guide. For more information about the Reports dashboard, see the Foglight User Help.
You can generate, copy, and edit reports using the Reports dashboard included with the Management Server. For more information, see the Foglight User Help.
The following templates are available with Foglight for VMware.