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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:
1
DRP-5.7.1.car
2
Virtual-VMware-5.7.1.car
 
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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.
3
Virtual-VMware-Admin-5.7.1.car
4
OptimizerAutomation-5.7.1.car
5
CommonAnalytics-5.7.1.car
6
Capacity-Director-5.7.1.car
While Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition comes with these cartridges pre-installed and enabled, a stand-alone Foglight release requires that these components be installed on the Foglight Management Server. The sequence of cartridge installation is important because of their dependencies. For more information about installing Foglight Capacity Manager, and for details about system requirements and version compatibility, see the Foglight Capacity Director Release Notes.

Data collection

Any virtual or physical hosts VMware servers (target machines) being monitored by Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition, automatically display in the VMware Environment dashboard. No further setup is required.

Dashboard location and UI elements

After installing Foglight Capacity Manager, the Capacity Management tab appears in the VMware Environment dashboard.
To access the Capacity Management dashboard:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2
Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
3
On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click VMWare > VMware Environment.
The selected dashboard appears with the Capacity Management tab.
 
Figure 1. Capacity Management tab
The Capacity Management tab consists of the following UI elements:
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Group selector
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Actions bar
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