Foglight Capacity Manager 5.7.1

Foglight Capacity Manager 5.7.1 - User Guide

Using Foglight Capacity Manager

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 replaces the functionality previously offered in Foglight Capacity Management in the VMware environment.This section introduces you to the Foglight Capacity Manager environment, and provides you with essential foundational information.

This section introduces you to the Foglight Capacity Manager environment, and provides you with essential foundational information.

For more information, see the following topics:

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Installation requirements

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Data collection

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Dashboard location and UI elements

Installation requirements

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:

DRP-5.7.1.car

Virtual-VMware-5.7.1.car


	NOTE: After installing the Virtual-VMware-5_7_1.car cartridge, existing vCenter agents (VC agents) must be updated using the Update Agent button in the VMware Environment > Administration tab.