VMware Performance and Capacity Management - Second Edition

Chapter 7. Capacity-Monitoring Dashboards

In this chapter, we will implement the capacity-monitoring solution we discussed in Chapter 5, Capacity Monitoring. We will cover each service tier from compute, storage, and network components. Due to the similarity in the approach, we can cover them in the following sequence:

• Tier 1 compute
• Tier 2 and 3 compute
• Storage (common for all service tiers)
• Network (common for all service tiers)

This will cover IaaS capacity monitoring. As overprovisioned VMs are a common problem, we will also cover VM rightsizing. We will cover both downsizing and upsizing scenarios.

Tier 1 compute

Let's recap from Chapter 5, Capacity Monitoring, what we need to produce to monitor capacity in tier 1 compute:

• A line chart showing the ...