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Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.6.16 - User and Reference Guide

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Cost tab

This tab is available in the VMware Explorer. To find it, open the VMware Explorer and on the Virtual Infrastructure view, that appears on the navigation panel, select a virtual machine instance. In the VMware Explorer, open the Cost tab.
Purpose and content
The VMware Explorer’s Cost tab contains information about the costs associated with the selected host’s usage. The information about these costs is provided by the cost models and host assignments that are configured in Foglight Chargeback. For more information about Foglight Chargeback, see the Foglight Chargeback User and Reference Guide.
Figure 36. Cost tab
Description of embedded views
This view is made up of the following embedded views:
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Cost Breakdown
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Host Add-ons
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Measured Resource Template
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Tasks
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Tiered Flat Rate
Cost Breakdown
This view shows the levels of Tiered Flat Rate (TFR) and Measured Resource Utilization (MRU), including the base cost and the cost of add-ons, if applicable.
Host Add-ons
This view lists the existing host add-ons. Add-ons are upgrades to any standard host configuration. These upgrades could include hardware, software, licensing, or infrastructure items such as rack space or power backup units. Add-ons consist of other costs incurred in the IT infrastructure.
Measured Resource Template
This view provides an overview of the measured resource template host assigned to the host. Measured Resource Utilization (MRU) is based on actual percentage utilizations of CPU, Memory, Network, and disk I/O weight. You can create templates based on these levels.
Tasks
This toolbar contains buttons for initiating wizards that allow you to set up TFR tiers and ESX® host templates, and to edit existing add-ons.
Tiered Flat Rate
This view provides an overview of the tiered flat rate assignment. A tier is a level of expense for a host machine. Using the Tiered Flat Rates (TFR) you can determine monthly costs of the selected virtual machine.

CPU tab

This tab is available in the VMware Explorer. To find it, open the VMware Explorer and on the Virtual Infrastructure view, that appears on the navigation panel, select an ESX® host instance. In the VMware Explorer, open the CPU tab.
Purpose and content
The VMware Explorer’s CPU tab displays the combined CPU utilization for an ESX host, showing the amount of processing speeds that are used by each virtual machine that is running on that host. This includes the amount of used processing speed, and the percentage of time the CPU resources are ready for use, all during a selected time period.
Figure 37. CPU tab
Description of embedded views
This view is made up of the following embedded views:
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CPU Utilization (Used)
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CPU Utilization (% Ready)
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Virtual Machines
CPU Utilization (Used)
This view shows the amounts of processing speed used by each virtual machine that is running on the selected ESX host during the selected time period.
CPU Utilization (% Ready)
This view shows the percentage of time the CPU resources are ready for use by each virtual machine that is running on the selected ESX host during the selected time period.
Virtual Machines
This view shows a list of all virtual machines that are running on the selected ESX host. For each virtual machine, it shows its name, the percentages of CPU resources that are used and ready for use, along with a color indicator for displaying this information in the CPU Utilization (Used) and CPU Utilization (% Ready) views. It also allows you to show or hide the related resource use from these views.

Event Analytics tab

This tab is available in the VMware Explorer. To find it, open the VMware Explorer and on the Virtual Infrastructure view, that appears on the navigation panel, select an ESX® host or virtual machine instance. In the VMware Explorer, open the Event Analytics tab.
Purpose and content
VMware Explorer’s Event Analytics tab contains details about the state of resource-related metrics collected about an ESX host or a virtual machine over a selected time period, and also shows any events that occurred during that time frame.
Figure 38. Event Analytics tab
Description of embedded views
This view is made up of the following embedded views:
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ESX Host Metrics Vs. Related Events
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Infrastructure Changes and Alarms
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Source Object/Metric
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VM Metrics Vs. Related Events
ESX Host Metrics Vs. Related Events
This view shows a chart indicating the utilization percentage or all values for one or more metric values selected in the Source Object/Metric view. If any infrastructure changes occur for the selected server during the selected time period, you can add them as an overlay to the chart using the Infrastructure Changes and Alarms view. This can give you a good idea on how the current resource consumption affects your environment as a whole. For example, a steady increase in memory consumption can trigger memory utilization alarms, which typically indicates that you need to allocate more memory to the affected ESX Server.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.
Infrastructure Changes and Alarms
This view allows you to add events such as alarms or infrastructure changes as overlays to the ESX Host Metrics Vs. Related Events or VM Metrics Vs. Related Events view, and correlate the resource consumption with the stability of your environment.
Source Object/Metric
This view allows you to select the metrics that appear in the chart view on the right. Possible metric types include: CPU Metrics, Disk Metrics, Memory Metrics, and Network Metrics. For each metric type, you can display the values of a selected metric, or all metric values associated with that type. For example, selecting Disk Metrics gives you an option of displaying Read Rate, Write Rate, or both metrics (All) in the chart. It also indicates if the chart on the right shows any color-coded overlays that represent infrastructure and/or alarm events, in addition to the selected source metric.
VM Metrics Vs. Related Events
This view shows a chart indicating the utilization percentage or all values for one or more metric values selected in the Source Object/Metric view. If any infrastructure changes occur for the selected server during the selected time period, you can add them as an overlay to the chart using the Infrastructure Changes and Alarms view. This can give you a good idea on how the current resource consumption affects your environment as a whole. For example, a steady increase in memory consumption can trigger memory utilization alarms, which typically indicates that you need to allocate more memory to the affected virtual machine.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.

FAQts view

The FAQts view is provided in the VMware Explorer dashboard and is available in the VMware Explorer Primary view through a navigation tab.
Purpose and content
Through three embedded views (the Categories, Question, and Answer views), the FAQts view enables you to ask questions and provides the answers to those questions.
Figure 39. FAQts view
Description of embedded views
The FAQts view is made up of the following embedded views:
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Answer
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Categories
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Questions
Answer
This view provides an answer to the question selected in the Questions view. The answer appears in the following form:
Top x <objects of category>…
where x is the number of objects of the category you provided in the Categories view.
Specify x by entering a number. The answer is relative to the subset of the infrastructure you are viewing in the dashboard. For example, the top 5 datastores are different for each individual cluster in the infrastructure.
Categories
This view lists the categories for which questions can be answered for you by Foglight.
Click a category in the list to select it.
Questions
This view lists the questions, for the category selected in the Categories, that can be answered for you by Foglight.
Click a question in the list to select it.
If the list of questions is long and you want to narrow it down, search for a particular text string using the Search Questions box.
Related Documents
Foglight for VMware Horizon View - 5.6.16
Release Notes
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