Reference Guide

8 vFoglight Cartridge for VMware
Reference Guide
About vFoglight
vFoglight helps IT organizations understand the virtual infrastructure by managing the
relationships and interaction between all the components in the environment, including
data centers, data stores, clusters, resource pools, hosts and virtual machines. With
vFoglight, administrators can quickly determine the root-cause of an incident or
problem, track virtual machine (VM) movements and understand their impact, and
identify contention for resources between virtual machines.
About this Guide
The Cartridge for VMware ships with predefined rules and views that help you monitor
your virtual infrastructure. This Reference Guide lists those rules and views, and
provides a definition for each.
This guide is intended for any user who wants to learn more about any Cartridge for
VMware rule or view.
This Reference Guide is organized as follows:
Chapter 1, Cartridge for VMware Rules—Lists and describes the predefined rules
included with the Cartridge for VMware.
Chapter 2, Cartridge for VMware Views—Lists and describes the predefined views
included with the Cartridge for VMware.
vFoglight Documentation Suite
The vFoglight documentation suite is made up of the core documentation set, plus the
documentation set for each vFoglight cartridge that you deploy. Documentation is
provided in a combination of online help, PDF and HTML.