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Reserve Capacity Now for Future Workloads with Foglight for
Virtualization - StandardMark EdwardsProduct Management,
Performance Management
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Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition Helps You Plan
Future VM DeploymentsOne of the key features in Foglight for
Virtualization, Standard Edition (aka "FVS" and formerly known as
vOPS) is the ability to safely deploy new VMs while ensuring
resources are not over-committed. FVS analyzes dynamic workload
demands and automatically right-sizes resources and eliminates
waste (old snapshots, zombie VMs, etc). FVS also determines exactly
how many more VMs can be safely deployed, and helps you create and
execute a plan for VM deployment while reserving resources in
advance, which guarantees those resources will be available as
needed. This enables you to efficiently plan and manage quickly
changing demands for resources in the environment. Additionally for
a team of administrators it establishes a single version of the
truth in terms of understanding and controlling the available
capacity for new workloads.FVS helps you understand how many VMs,
and their sizes, can safely be added to your existing
infrastructure using the Capacity Availability Feature. Use the
Calculator to select default VM slot sizes or input your own
specific sizes via the New Custom Size button. You can see in the
example below were using average VM sizes to determine how many
additional VMs can be added to the infrastructure:
#8/8/20138/8/2013Global MarketingConfidentialDetermining the
Number of Additional VMs You Can Safely Add to Your
InfrastructureWe see the Hyperv.hyper-v.net resource object in
particular can safely run seven additional VMs based on the
calculated size (using the average VM sizes in this example), and
the major resource constraint is storage.We also see that we dont
have any VMs reserved via the column titled Reserved VMs, along
with the summary line just above the table showing zero Reserved
VMs. Once reservations are made, those VMs will populate the
Reserved VMs column and the summary line. To make reservations and
deploy VMs, we first click the Plan Deployments tab in the
Calculator:
#8/8/20138/8/2013Global MarketingConfidentialReserving Resources
for Future VM DeploymentThen click the Schedule VM Reservation
button and input the requisite information in the dialog box to
reserve resources and schedule VM deployment at the best time for
your organization. In this example, were adding an additional
database server for a web expansion project. For sizing the VM, we
use the Custom setting to input specific resource sizing or we can
select the sizing of any existing VM. We then choose the host or
cluster, and storage:
#8/8/20138/8/2013Global MarketingConfidentialReserving Resources
for Future VM DeploymentOnce you save the information, the placed
VM is converted to a reservation and will appear in the Reserved
VMs column of the Capacity Availability View:
#8/8/20138/8/2013Global MarketingConfidentialDeploying VMs Using
TemplatesIf you use templates, click the Plan Deployments tab in
the Calculator, followed by the Deployment tab to enter that
requisite information. Note the templates allocation values can be
easily adjusted on any given deployment:
#8/8/20138/8/2013Global MarketingConfidentialSingle Version of
the Truth for Future VM Deployments & Reserved CapacityAll
reserved and deployed VMs can be seen and managed from the Planned
Deployment tab of the Capacity Manager, including editing and
deleting:
#8/8/20138/8/2013Global MarketingConfidentialSimplify Capacity
Management for Existing and Future Workloads with FVSFVS delivers a
simplified, orderly approach to identifying available VM slots,
reserving scarce resources for new workloads, and automating the
creation, scheduling, and placement of those VMs. This eliminates
the risk of over-committing resources while enabling you to get the
most out of your virtual infrastructure.For more
information:http://software.dell.com/products/foglight-for-virtualization-standard-edition/Foglight
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