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Foglight Resource Optimizer 5.8.1 - User Guide (for Hyper-V Environments)

Viewing excluded objects

To see the list of VMs excluded from the optimization process:
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Click Show Excluded Items.
The Settings Dialog box opens, with the Excluded tab on the foreground. You can modify the list and save the new settings. For more information, see Excluded tab.

Foglight Resource Optimizer reports

Several report templates are available with Foglight Resource Optimizer, and together they provide a detailed analysis of the changes made in your environment over time.

Each report template uses report parameters to define the content of the report. Use a template’s default report parameters to quickly generate or schedule a report or optionally change the report parameters to customize the report to better meet your requirements.

The following tables contains an alphabetical list of the Foglight Resource Optimizer reports. They also provide a brief description of the report and the report parameters used to define the content. Report parameters marked with an asterisk (*) are required and you must specify this parameter before the report can be generated.

 
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NOTE: If you are using the Templates by Module tab on the Run Report wizard, click the expansion box to the left of the:
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Optimizer entry to view the Foglight Resource Optimizer reports
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Common Analytics entry to view reports shared between several virtual cartridges, including Foglight Resource Optimizer
 
Table 10. Foglight Resource Optimizer report templates
Report Name
Report Description
Input Parameters: Default Value

Optimizer - Checkpoints Report

The Checkpoints view provides a glimpse at the virtual machine checkpoint files that have not been modified for an extended period of time, and the appropriate recommendations.
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Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* Selected Service

Optimizer - Abandoned VM Images

Contains unused image file names, datastores they belong to, size, last modified date, and recommendations for future actions.
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Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* Selected Service
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* Type of Virtualization

Optimizer - All Reports

Creates reports for CPU, memory, storage, abandoned VM images, powered off VMs, unused template images, snapshots, and potential zombie VMs.
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Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* Selected Service
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* Type of Virtualization

Optimizer - CPU Report

Contains information regarding virtual machine, CPU utilization, peak utilization, and appropriate recommendations.
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Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* Selected Service
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* Type of Virtualization

Optimizer - Initiated Changes History Report

Optimizer-initiated change information regarding target name, description of change, execution date, “created by”, and status.
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Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* Selected Service
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* Type of Virtualization

Optimizer - Memory Report

Contains information regarding virtual machine, memory utilization, its peak utilization, and memory recommendations.
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Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* Selected Service
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* Type of Virtualization

Optimizer - Potential Zombie VMs Report

Potential Zombie VMs are virtual machines that are powered on but appear to be unused. These VMs are identified by analyzing CPU, memory, network, and disk throughput for very consistent usage over an extended period of time. This report contains name of the VM, CPU, memory, disk throughput, network usage, and recommendations.
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Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* Selected Service
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* Type of Virtualization

Optimizer - Powered Off VMs Report

Contains information regarding virtual machines that have been powered off for an extended period of time, and the time periods for which they have been powered off.
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Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* Selected Service
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* Type of Virtualization
 
Table 11. Common Analytics report templates
Report Name
Report Description
Input Parameters: Default Value

Cartridge-initiated Changes History Report

Includes FVE Cartridge-initiated change information regarding “target name”, “description of change”, “execution date”, “created by” and “status”.

NOTE: This report was named “Changes History Report” in previous versions of this cartridge.
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* Time Range: Last 4 hours
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* SelectedService
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* Type of Virtualization
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Cartridge Type: ChangeAnalyzer

Investigate resource efficiency

In Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition systems, the Environment Overview dashboard > Investigate tab provides a quick way to investigate the resource efficiency in your environment and to optimize VMs with incorrect resource allocations, as necessary.

Figure 14. Environment Overview > Investigate tab

For Hyper-V® systems, click the Hyper-V tab. The Resource Efficiency pane provides the following information:

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CPU: Number of VMs with inaccurate CPU allocation. Click the Optimize link to navigate to the Environment Overview > Optimizer Main View dashboard > CPU tab, which provides recommendations for optimizing the CPU for these VMs. For more information, see CPU.
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Memory: Number of VMs with inn ac urate memory allocation. Click the Optimize link to navigate to the Environment Overview > Optimizer Main View dashboard > Memory tab, which provides recommendations for optimizing the memory for these VMs. For more information, see Memory.

 

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