Foglight™ Capacity 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 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 Manager User Guide is intended for users who have been assigned the
System Administrator,
Operator,
Architect, or
Capacity Manager role and who need to perform tasks such as managing the capacity life cycle in a datacenter.
Foglight Capacity Manager comes installed on Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition and can be installed on a Foglight Management Server.
Foglight Capacity Manager requires the following cartridges for data collection:
After installing Foglight Capacity Manager, the
Capacity Management tab appears in the VMware Environment dashboard.
The Capacity Management tab consists of the following UI elements:
on the left.