Coming soon to Capacity Director!

1. Select a cluster
2. Select a host or all hosts in the cluster
3. Review, select and automate the placement recommendations
4. Review, select and implement the resource optimizations

Done, a balanced virtual environment.

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Foglight for Virtualization 8.5 with Capacity Director is out now, go give it try.

Predict growth, optimize performance and know the impact of changes on your computer capacity - Never again will you need to make an unplanned request for hardware purchases…

A customer would like to forward alarms from Foglight with all the appropriate information, such as alarm time, source, severity, message, and the rule name, to a pager script which in turn pages the on-call DBA.

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The latest release of the Foglight for Oracle cartridge brings a new dashboard, customer enhancements and various fixes.

There is a new overview dashboard:

It is easier to read with an improved layout. I like the way the various areas are summarized…

System Monitoring is the function of notifying and informing application stake-holders about the effectiveness of a company’s IT investment.  The stake-holders range from business people that own or depend on Software applications, to the administrators…

Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for: the Foglight quarterly maintenance release! That’s right, Foglight 5.7.5.5 was released on July 14 with a focus on customer-raised bugs, general quality of work, Foglight Management Server performance…

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How do you handle capacity management in your virtual environment?

If you find yourself frantically trying to keep an eye on VM density, disk space, service levels, resource utilization and – gulp – zombie VMs…