Simple Cluster-Rightsizing Dashboard - non-HCI
Overview
This simple dashboard helps you determine the number of ESXi Hosts you should add, or you potentially could remove from a vSphere (non-HCI) cluster according to the demand driven capacity calculation.
More information is available on my personal blog, see:
http://thomas-kopton.de/vblog/?p=361
Installation
Download and unzip the cluster-rightsizing.zip file.
- Create two metric configurations:
- tkopton-Cluster-KPIs - use the content in the corresponding file
- tkopton-Cluster-Config - use the content in the corresponding file
- Import the Supermetrics (file: supermetric.json)
- Activate the Supermetrics in your policy or policies applied to your clusters
- Import the View (file: content-view.xml)
- Import the Dashboard (file: Dashboard.zip)
- Wait few collections cycles
Usage
- Select Datacenter - select vSphere Datacenter to inspect
- Select Cluster - shows all vSphere Clusters in selected DC, select Cluster to see further details
- Cluster Configuration - quick config overview, first box "Enabled" shows DRS status
- Capacity Remaining - remaining capacity by thy most constraint resource for the selected Cluster
- Cluster KPIs - quick overview of current Cluster performance
Known Issues
- -1 color coding not working
- DRS Enabled Box - wrong label
- Avg Mem Contention - no metric
- The view shows all clusters - also the HCI ones
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