Easy to download, deploy and use in virtualized environments with up to 1000 virtual machines, Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition ensures you’ll be up, running and viewing actionable virtualization performance and operations management advice in fewer than 30 minutes. Simplified performance management Cost-effective capacity planning Detailed change tracking Chargeback and showback reporting

1. Foglight™ for Virtualization
Standard Edition
 Easy to Download
 Easy to Deploy
 Easy to Use
Visualize. Analyze. Optimize.

2. Small to Medium Enterprise IT Reality
• Organizations virtualized to save
money, but now costs are escalating
• Servers and storage can’t be ordered
one day, and delivered the next.
Budgets need to be established and
vendor negotiations executed before
procurement.
• Sysadmins are expected to manage
100’s of VMs, not 10’s of VMs
• VMware is now only 54% of the market
and Microsoft HyperV has grown to
30% according to IDC.
– Approximately 50% of organizations use
more than one hypervisor – Gartner
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3. Reality Check…
Do you regularly check consolidation ratios or right-size your
VMs? If not, you are not getting the most value for your
virtualization dollar.”
Dave Bartoletti
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4. Virtualization Performance Monitoring and
Operations Management
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Simplify Infrastructure Complexity
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Reduce Operational Expenditures
(OPEX)
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Control Capital Expenses (CAPEX)
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Maximize Performance and Availability
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Transparent Service Levels and Costs
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Properly managed virtualized
environments can reduce
capital expenses, improve
operating expenses through
automation, and minimize
lost revenue by reducing both
planned and unplanned
downtime.
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5. Dell FoglightTM for Virtualization, Standard
Edition
• Visualize infrastructure
health
• Analyze to delay and
reduce CAPEX
• Optimize to reduce OPEX
• Control dynamic
environments
• Track consumption for
chargeback/showback
• Simplify administration best
practices and automation
Realize time to value in minutes
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6. Visualize: Know
Now…Do Now.
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7. Visualize Infrastructure Health
• Number of
infrastructure objects
& their overall health
• Utilization trends
• Resource efficiency
insights
• Real-time & future
alarms & bottlenecks
At-a-Glance Simplicity
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8. Take Action Immediately to Resolve
Incidents
• Easily pinpoint issues & bottlenecks
• Receive actionable insights
• Automate incident resolution
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9. Analyze:
Capacity
Management &
Chargeback…
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10. Effectively Manage Available Capacity for
Existing and New Workloads
• Model, plan, schedule, automate, and track new VM deployments to
eliminate the potential to over-commit hosts and data stores
Easily determine how many new VMs can
safely be added
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11. Plan, Model, and Forecast Future Capacity
Needs
• Accurately predict when additional hosts are needed
• Model new host and cluster deployments
• Analyze and stack-rank potential servers to refresh the environment to
minimize CAPEX while meeting performance and budget goals
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12. Track Resource Utilization & Allocations for
Chargeback/Showback
• Determine operating costs for users, VMs, clusters, etc
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13. Optimize: Best
Practice
Expertise = True
Cost Savings
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14. Tune the Infrastructure for Efficiency Gains
& Reduced OPEX
• Easily identify over- and under-sized VMs
• Automatically reconfigure now, at a specified date and time, or
periodically based on a recurring schedule
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15. Eliminate Waste
• Easily identify potentially un-needed VMs, templates, and snapshots
• Automatically reclaim wasted resources
Improve Performance and Free up Space
for New Workloads
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16. Identify Cost Savings from Powering Down
Unneeded Hosts Over Time
• Determine the minimum number of hosts needed to safely deliver
new and planned workloads over time
• Identify cost savings from powering down unneeded hosts
throughout the time period
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17. Predictive Change Impact
• Model potential configuration changes and automate the change
• Track changes
• Rollback changes that impact performance
Understand the Impact of Changes
Before You Make Them
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18. Thank you for your
participation
Join the conversation…
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@ballingertweets
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