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October 27th, 2010 10:00
Reports - how do you use them and what more do you want?
Your chance to get what you want
Tell us which of the out of the box reports you use and how often? Tell us why you use, what do they help you to do? Tell us how you would like them to be improved?
What further reports would you like? Describe them a little and tell us what you would use them to help you with?
Reports today are informative, that is they provide information to help you decide. Would you like us to change them completely to be suggestive, so that they suggest what you should do? O, would you prefer us to retain the informative aspects but add suggestive parts?
Now is your chance to influence the future of the out of the box reports. Add you comments or try our poll; be daring and do both.
-Mike C
mcondy
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October 27th, 2010 11:00
So vFoglight currently provides wizard based reporting, drag and drop reporting and out of the box (OOTB) report templates. It is this latter group that interests me here.
We are looking at adding to the 36 templates that already exist and want to know more about what you want and why. A one line description often doesn't help but provide:
a title
a brief description of the content (attach a spreadsheet, word doc , etc if you like).
and; most importantly what you would use the report for
As an example:
memory commitment recommendations
would contain VM names and for each would show the current allocation, the average and maximum usage, the limit, the forecast usage over next 90 days and would show recommended increases or decreases in allocation
use to optimize memory allocations
So provide some suggestions and lets see what more we can do to make life easier. Oh and don't forget that you are not limited to VMware but can do chargeback, capacity planning, Hyper V, Guest processes, etc
barlowj
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December 20th, 2010 19:00
We are new to Foglight. Some of the canned reports are good but are lacking the ability to select a repeative time horizon over start and end date.
What we need is the ability to monitor for 30 60 90 days or more for specific times, Europe, North America, AP shifts.. For example since our data center server our community around the world we need to find the pinch points in CPU, Memory, I/O etc over a month from 00:00 to 08:00 then from 08:00 to 16:00 and finally 16:00 to 24:00.
So our need is to monitor CPU etc from the first of the month to the End of the Month for Europe. The the same report for North America and finally for Asia Pack useage. Ideally we would like a monthy report for the month of the data center with the ability to drill down to shifts.
This would allow us to montior peaks with in shift while watching the trend.