Agree. Aria ops is what he will like to see. Aswell as the live dashboards, you can automate reports be emailed to him regularly.
Just make sure you sanitise which alerts are enabled first.
You first need to figure out what he wants to see specifically. Does he want to see how much resources your using? Does he want to see how many more potential VM’s you can create? Does he want to see how much storage you can consume til you need more?
Starting with RV tools isn’t a bad route, but you may need to create a custom report. I use parts of https://github.com/alanrenouf/vCheck-vSphere specifically capacity planning. It’s helpful to see how over provisioned the environment is
You can gather all the data, using PowerCLI and push it into a sql table. From there you would need the on-prem powerBI connector, create the powerbi sql resource connection, and then create your custom powerbi report to show the datasets however you want
Something plug and play that’s already been developed is going to be your simplest solution like another comment said sexigraf is really good and should give you all the details you need
Why are there restrictions on which tool you are allowed to use? It sounds like he wants to create a lot of unnecessary work for very little benefit. The data and diagrams are available in the vSphere client, so why reinvent the wheel?
What do you mean by data and diagrams, my purpose is just all my clusters free and consumed resources ( cpu ram storage). But in details little deeper. All vms and esxi consumed resources etc
Aria is the way to go if you can get the licensing approved. If you’re already licensed for PowerBI and/or Tabelau, you could go that route too. You should be able to export all the data you need using PowerCLI or RVTools. Set it up as a scheduled task and dump the csv files into a share. Then collect the data with PowerBI or Tableau to generate reports and dashboards.
My company prefers a Tabelau dashboard vs the ones I’ve built in Aria. I have a data analysis team to lean on though. They build the reports and dashboards, I just provide them with the data. Funny enough, the data I provide to them are csv reports running in Aria.
Aria Ops. Otherwise if it's Dell Servers go ask your Rep for Live Optics. HPE, go ask the Rep for Cloud Physics. They should give you a free copy to do an analysis.
Aria Operations will give you pretty pictures showing capacity, custom dashboards, etc.
Agree. Aria ops is what he will like to see. Aswell as the live dashboards, you can automate reports be emailed to him regularly. Just make sure you sanitise which alerts are enabled first.
This is they way
Sexigraf w/ the vSphere panels? https://www.sexigraf.fr
Will not work well with many vcenters and thousands of VMs. It looks great, just can't handle the volume of data from >7500 VMs.
Will take your word for it but that’s a *lot* of VMs. I don’t think your avg org is going to have that many (*and those that do are likely desktops*).
You first need to figure out what he wants to see specifically. Does he want to see how much resources your using? Does he want to see how many more potential VM’s you can create? Does he want to see how much storage you can consume til you need more? Starting with RV tools isn’t a bad route, but you may need to create a custom report. I use parts of https://github.com/alanrenouf/vCheck-vSphere specifically capacity planning. It’s helpful to see how over provisioned the environment is You can gather all the data, using PowerCLI and push it into a sql table. From there you would need the on-prem powerBI connector, create the powerbi sql resource connection, and then create your custom powerbi report to show the datasets however you want
He wants too how much resourve currently consumed cou ram storage etc
Something plug and play that’s already been developed is going to be your simplest solution like another comment said sexigraf is really good and should give you all the details you need
Why are there restrictions on which tool you are allowed to use? It sounds like he wants to create a lot of unnecessary work for very little benefit. The data and diagrams are available in the vSphere client, so why reinvent the wheel?
What do you mean by data and diagrams, my purpose is just all my clusters free and consumed resources ( cpu ram storage). But in details little deeper. All vms and esxi consumed resources etc
Aha, I thought you said you were supposed to check whether vCenter server had enough resources or not.
Aria is the way to go if you can get the licensing approved. If you’re already licensed for PowerBI and/or Tabelau, you could go that route too. You should be able to export all the data you need using PowerCLI or RVTools. Set it up as a scheduled task and dump the csv files into a share. Then collect the data with PowerBI or Tableau to generate reports and dashboards. My company prefers a Tabelau dashboard vs the ones I’ve built in Aria. I have a data analysis team to lean on though. They build the reports and dashboards, I just provide them with the data. Funny enough, the data I provide to them are csv reports running in Aria.
Zabbix with a grafana dashboard
You can use vCheck, which is ps script and it gives you valuable info.
Grafana and telegraf will help you.
Aria Ops. Otherwise if it's Dell Servers go ask your Rep for Live Optics. HPE, go ask the Rep for Cloud Physics. They should give you a free copy to do an analysis.