Foglight Change Analyzer 5.8.3

Environment selector. Allows you to select the environment to be analyzed. The following options are available by default in the drop-down list (additional user-created items may appear in the list as well):

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All Objects

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All Clusters

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All Standalone Hosts

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Unassigned

Object selector. Allows you to select the object to be analyzed.

Object Type selector. Allows you to select a virtual object from the following options:

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ESX Host

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Virtual Machine

Search box. Allows you to type the name of a virtual object to be analyzed.

Where to go next

The Analyze Changes—Quick view is updated to display the objects that have experienced an event that affects the performance of the environment, during the selected timeframe.

Analyze Changes—Quick view

Table 3. Analyze Changes—Quick view

Description

This view displays the objects that have experienced an event that affects the performance of the environment, during the selected timeframe.

Data displayed

Upper table. Displays all objects that have experienced an event that affects the performance of the environment, during the selected timeframe.

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Object Name. Shows the object name.

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Change Event. Shows the event that impacts the performance of the environment. For a list of change events being monitored and reported, see Table 4.

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Performance Impact. Shows the impact on performance, as a percentage.

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Affected Objects. Shows the number of objects in the environment who’s performance is affected by the event.

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Change Date. Shows the date and time when the event occurred.

Lower table. Displays the list of all objects who’s performance is affected by the object/ event selected in the upper table.

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Affected Object. Shows the name of the objects affected by the event.

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Performance Before. Shows the performance value before the event.

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Performance After. Shows the performance value after the event.

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Performance Change. Shows the ratio of the change.

Where to go next

Drill down on: N/A

Change Summary view

To open the Change Summary view, click the Change Summary icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Menu bar.

For more details, see the following topics:

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Purpose

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Description of view elements

Purpose

The Change Summary view shows all the changes that occurred to VMs, hosts, clusters, datastores, and resource pools within a selected environment, during a selected timeframe.

The following table presents the change events that Foglight Change Analyzer captures and presents upon request.

Table 4. Change events
Event type	Change name	Change description
Cluster Events	Cluster created	New cluster was added to the environment.
	Cluster Deleted	Cluster was removed from the environment.
	Host Added	New host was added to cluster.
	Host Removed	Host was removed from cluster.
	VM Added	VM was added to cluster.
	VM Removed	VM was removed from cluster.
	HA Enabled	Cluster HA was enabled.
	HA Disabled	Cluster HA was disabled.
	HA Configuration Change	Cluster HA configuration was changed.
	Host Enters Disconnected State	Host has been disconnected.
	Host Exits Disconnect State	Host has reconnected.
	Host Enters Maintenance Mode	Host has entered maintenance mode.
	Host Exits Maintenance Mode	Host has exited maintenance mode.
Datacenter Events	Host Added	Host was added to the datacenter.
	Host Removed	Host was removed from the datacenter.
	Cluster Added	Cluster was added to the datacenter.
	Cluster Removed	Cluster was removed from the datacenter.
	Datastore Added	Datastore was added to the datacenter.
	Datastore Removed	Datastore was removed from the datacenter.
Datastore Events	Datastore Created	New datastore was added to the environment.
	Datastore Removed	Datastore was removed from the environment.
	Datastore Added to Host	Datastore was mapped to host.
	Datastore Removed from Host	Datastore was unmapped from host.
Datastore Resource Allocation Events	Datastore Capacity Increased	Capacity of the datastore was changed.
Host Events	Host Added	New host was added to the environment.
	Host Removed	Host was removed from the environment.
	VM Added	VM has been added to host.
	VM Removed	VM has been removed from host.
	VM Host Move Target	Host was the target of a VM move from a different host.
	VM Host Move Source	Host was the source of a VM move to a different host.
	Datastore Added	New datastore was mapped to host.
	Datastore Removed	Datastore mapping has been removed from host.
	Host Enters Disconnected State	Host has been disconnected.
	Host Exits Disconnected State	Host has reconnected
	Host Enters Maintenance Mode	Host has entered maintenance mode.
	Host Exits Maintenance Mode	Host has existed maintenance mode.
	Host Link Up	Host network link is up.
	Host Link Down	Host network link is down.
Resource Pool Events	Resource Pool Created	New resource pool was added to environment.
	Resource Pool Removed	Resource pool was removed from environment.
	Resource Pool Moved	Resource Pool was moved to a new parent.
	VM Added	VM was added to resource pool.
	VM Removed	VM was removed from resource pool.
Resource Pool Resource Allocation Events	CPU Limit Increased	Resource Pool CPU Limit Changed.
	CPU Limit Decreased	Resource Pool CPU Limit Changed.
	CPU Reservation Increased	Resource Pool CPU Reservation Changed.
	CPU Reservation Decreased	Resource Pool CPU Reservation Changed.
	CPU Priority Increased	Resource Pool CPU Priority Changed.
	CPU Priority Decreased	Resource Pool CPU Priority Changed.
	Memory Limit Increased	Resource Pool Memory Limit Changed.
	Memory Limit Decreased	Resource Pool Memory Limit Changed.
	Memory Reservation Increased	Resource Pool Memory Reservation Changed.
	Memory Reservation Decreased	Resource Pool Memory Reservation Changed.
	Memory Priority Increased	Resource Pool Memory Priority Changed.
	Memory Priority Decreased	Resource Pool Memory Priority Changed.
Virtual Machine Events	VM Created	New VM was added to environment.
	VM Removed	VM was removed from environment.
	VM Powered On	VM was powered on.
	VM Powered Off	VM was powered off.
	VM Suspended	VM was suspended.
	VM Restarted	VM was restarted.
	VM Host Move	VM has been moved to a different host.
	VM Resource Pool Move	VM has been moved to a different resource pool.
	VM datastore Move	VM has been moved to a different datastore.
Virtual Machine Resource Allocation Events	VM CPU Allocation Increased	Change in number of vCPUs allocated to VM.
	VM CPU Allocation Decreased	Change in number of vCPUs allocated to VM.
	VM CPU Limit Increased	CPU limit changed for VM.
	VM CPU Limit Decreased	CPU limit changed for VM.
	VM CPU Reservation Increased	Reserved CPU level changed for VM.
	VM CPU Reservation Decreased	Reserved CPU Level changed for VM.
	VM CPU Priority Increased	CPU Priority changed for VM.
	VM CPU Priority Decreased	CPU Priority changed for VM.
	VM Memory Allocation Increased	Memory allocation changed for VM.
	VM Memory Allocation Decreased	Memory allocation changed for VM.
	VM Memory Limit Increased	Memory limit changed for VM.
	VM Memory Limit Decreased	Memory limit changed for VM.
	VM Memory Reservation Increased	Reserved memory level changed for VM.
	VM Memory Reservation Decreased	Reserved memory level changed for VM.
	VM Memory Priority Increased	Memory priority changed for VM.
	VM Memory Priority Decreased	Memory priority changed for VM.
DRS Events	VM migration from one ESX host to another	VM Migration from one ESX host to another.
vCloud Director Resource Allocation Events	Organization was created	vCloud Organization was created.
	Organization was deleted	vCloud Organization was deleted.
	Provider vDC was created	vCloud Provider vDC was created.
	Provider vDC was deleted	vCloud Provided vDC was deleted.
	vDC was created	vCloud vDC was created.
	vDC was deleted	vCloud vDC was deleted.
	The usesFastProvisioning value of a vCloud vDC was modified	The UsesFastProvisioning value of a vCloud vDC was modified.
	The IsThinProvision value of a vCloud vDC was modified	The IsThinProvision value of a vCloud vDC was modified.
	Virtual machine was created	vCloud VM was created.
	Virtual machine was deleted	vCloud VM was deleted.
	vApp was created	vCloud vApp was created.
	vApp was deleted	vCloud vApp was deleted.

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