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Foglight Capacity Director 5.8.3 - User Guide

Using Foglight Capacity Director Getting Started Tab Current Capacity Tab Resource Utilization Tab Scenario Modeler Tab Server Purchase Tab Report Tab Performance Tuning Tab Changes and DRS Rules Tab Infrastructure Organizations Tab

Performance Tuning Tab

The Performance Tuning view helps to identify and resolve performance issues in your virtual environment by analyzing contention as well as the resources assigned to a virtual machine and then automating the recommended changes. It includes the following elements:

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Select a Cluster pane: Lists available clusters in the selected virtual center or datacenter, and provides the capability to search the cluster as needed.
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Select a Host pane: Lists available hosts in the selected cluster, and provides the capability to search the host as needed.
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Information icon: Click this icon to pop up the dialog box with details explaining what is Performance Tuning.
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Performance Tuning pane: Consists of two tabs:
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VMs Performance: Design to show the virtual machines on the given host or all hosts in a cluster to quickly highlight the worst performing. This data is then used to drive the recommendations in the Resource Optimization tab.
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Resource Optimization: Provides three automated recommendation engines (Aggressive, Moderate, and Top 10) built to move virtual machines between hosts to reduce the contention and improve the performance.

To access the Performance Tuning view:

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On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Capacity Director.
The Capacity Director dashboard opens.
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Use the Group selector located at the top of the dashboard to select the virtual environment that you want to monitor.
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On the Menu bar, click the Performance Tuning tab.
The Performance Tuning view appears at the bottom of the Capacity Director dashboard.

Select a Cluster pane

The Select a Cluter pane on the left top of the Capacity Director dashboard offers the following menus:

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Search menu: Provides the search functionality that helps you easily find the cluster, as needed.
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Select a Cluster table: Lists all clusters that are available in the selected virtual center or datacenter.
Description

Lists the name and the performance score of all clusters that are available in the selected virtual center or datacenter.

Data displayed
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Cluster Name. The name of the cluster.
 
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Performance Score. The performance score of the cluster.

Select a Host pane

The Select a Host pane on the left bottom of the Capacity Director dashboard offers the following menus:

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Search menu: Provides the search functionality that helps you easily find the host, as needed.
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Select a Host table: Lists all hosts that are available in the selected cluster.
Description

Lists the name and the performance score of all hosts that are available in the selected cluster.

Data displayed
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Host Name. The name of the host.
 
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Performance Score. The performance score of the host.

Performance Tuning pane

The VMs Performance tab and Resource Optimization tab provide a view of the selected cluster and hosts.

The VMs Performance tab includes the following elements:

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Filter menu: Allows you to filter the virtual machines based on the following options: All VMs (default option), Good, Degrading, and Bad.
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Virtual Machine: Displays the name of the virtual machine.
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CPU: Shows the CPU Utilization, CPU Latency, and CPU Max Limited in percent for the virtual machine.
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Memory: Shows the memory Utilization, memory Swapped, and memory balloon for the virtual machine.
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Virtual Disk Latency: Shows the data transfer latency (in ms) of the virtual machine.
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Performance State: Indicates the performance state of the virtual machine, which can be one of the following: Good, Degrading, and Bad.
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Performance Score: Shows the performance score of the virtual machine.

The Resource Optimization tab includes the following elements:

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Select a mode for recommendation: Provides the optimization modes that help you obtain the recommended resource optimization, as needed.
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Resources Optimization table: Lists the resource optimization result of virtual machines, which includes the name of Virtual Machine, Performance Score, Resource Type, Recommendation, and Modify Recommendation.
This table is refreshed automatically after selecting a mode from the Select a mode for recommendation drop-down list.
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Migration Recommendation table: Lists the resource migration result of virtual machines, which includes the name of Virtual Machine, Performance Score, Source Host, Destination, and Status.
This table is refreshed automatically after selecting a mode from the Select a mode for recommendation drop-down list.
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