Tool for assesment

[kopper27]

hi guys

Well first what I need to do

my customer wants to check his vmware environment 4.1 u1 - 1 vCenter y 7 hosts - 140VMs.

he wanst to know if right now his enviroment is OK and if it is OK how much is left to grow....

something like you have this resource and the average use is 2vCPUs and 10GB RAM according to that you can add 20 more VMs to your actual enviroment.

or on the other hand you're reaching the limits of your farm and you need to add another ESX host to create-add more VMs.

I was thinking about Capacity IQ or vCenter Operations Manager which is better? I know both run in esxi 4.1

thanks a lot

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hi,

You could even try out Veeam Monitor as it will check all your ESXi hosts and the VMs

Some information you can also get from the vCenter Server cluster summary (I hope you have configured a cluster for HA and DRS) like threshold levels and load.

There is a free tool called RVTools that gathers information of all your ESXi hosts, VMs, vRAM, CPU, Networks and much more which you can export to Excel for further analysis.

Hope this information is useful

Nikhil

[TomHowarth]

There are plenty of tools out there that you can use,

as already mentioned Veeam Monitor,

there is also vKernels tool, Solarwinds also have one, embotics are another company

[kopper27]

so capacity IQ won't help?

thanks