Specifications

Chapter 4: Key features
How can I solve VM sprawl, reclaim resources, and rightsize my
virtual environment?
Virtualization Manager includes a VM sprawl dashboard that displays the number
of unused, oversized, and undersized VMs over time along with other metrics
useful in effectively utilizing your virtual environment.You can use business
views to gather more information about which resources are overallocated and
underallocated, which VMs are sized incorrectly, and which VMs are stale.
For more information, see Business views.
How much would it cost to move my virtual infrastructure to
Amazon EC2?
Virtualization Manager contains a Cloud Cost (EC2) dashboard which displays
data about what it would cost to move your current virtual infrastructure or a
specific part of it to Amazon EC2.
Because the costs of using cloud services depend on unique factors, such as the
location of the servers, Virtualization Manager does not cover all the possibilities
by default in its cloud cost calculation. However, you can modify the algorithm
Virtualization Manager uses for the cloud cost calculations to fit your needs.
To find and modify the criteria based on which the cloud costs are
calculated:
1. Navigate to Explore > Content.
2. Under Filter content, open the by type accordion, and then select Trends.
3. Search for EC2 to find the relevant EC2 trends you want to modify.
4. Click on the trend you want, and then click Configure on the bottom of the
screen.
5. Select the Criteria tab of the trend to see the XPath query that is used for
calculating the cloud cost.
For example, the criteria for the EC2 Average Monthly Windows VM Cost trend
is the following:
if (/virtualMachine/memory <= 1740.8 and /virtualMachine/cpuCount <=1)
then 87.6 else if
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