5.1
Table Of Contents
- Getting Started with vFabric Suite
- Table of Contents
- 1. About Getting Started with vFabric Suite
- 2. Quick Start Guide
- 3. Overview of vFabric Suite 5.1
- vFabric Suite Editions and Components
- vFabric Administration Server for Easier Component Management
- Simplified VM-Based Licensing Model
- vFabric Suite Product Integration and vSphere Integration
- Engineered for Spring-Built Applications
- 4. vFabric Licensing
- 5. Installing vFabric Suite
- Install vFabric License Server on Your vCenter Server
- Activate vFabric Suite Licenses
- RHEL: Example Walkthrough of Installing Component From the VMware RPM Repository
- Windows/Linux: Example Walkthrough of Installing Component from Download Page
- Upgrade vFabric License Server
- Uninstall vFabric License Server from vCenter Server
- 6. Monitoring vFabric License Usage
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prompt> cd c:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vFabric Platform\Reporting
2. Run the desired monitoring command; see Command Reference for a table that lists all the commands along with their
required or optional parameters.
For example, run the usage-over-periods.bat command to display vFabric license usage over a period of time. You
must specify the start and end dates of the time period, as well as the period, such as monthly or yearly.
prompt> usage-over-periods.bat -startDate 08/01/2011 -endDate 08/31/2011 -period WEEKLY
The output will look something like the following:
License Key,Period,Minimum Usage,Maximum Usage,Average Usage
123AA-123BB-123CC-123DD-123EE,"Aug 1, 2011 - Aug 7, 2011",2,4,3.1
123AA-123BB-123CC-123DD-123EE,"Aug 8, 2011 - Aug 14, 2011",2,3,2.5
123AA-123BB-123CC-123DD-123EE,"Aug 15, 2011 - Aug 21, 2011",0,1,0
123AA-123BB-123CC-123DD-123EE,"Aug 22, 2011 - Aug 28, 2011",0,2,0.07
123AA-123BB-123CC-123DD-123EE,"Aug 29, 2011 - Aug 31, 2011",1,4,1.3
The output shows the minimum, maximum, and average use of a single vFabric license for each week in the month of
August, 2011. If you had installed additional vFabric licenses, then these would also show up in the report.
Another example is to view the year-to-date usage of your vFabric licenses. For example, if today is July 31, 2011:
prompt> usage-over-periods.bat -startDate 08/01/2010 -endDate 07/31/2011 -period YEARLY
The output will look something like the following:
License Key,Period,Minimum Usage,Maximum Usage,Average Usage
123AA-123BB-123CC-123DD-123EE,"Aug 1, 2010 - July 31, 2011",50,75,30.5
To view the daily usage over the last 90 days and group the output by the associated resource pool, run the following
command:
prompt> usage-over-periods.bat -days 90 -group resourcePool
Run the current-usage.bat Windows command to get a report of the current vFabric license usage.
prompt> current-usage.bat
The output will look something like the following:
License Key,Quantity Licensed,Quantity Available,Current Usage
123AA-123BB-123CC-123DD-123EE,500,498,2
The entry shows the 500-license vFabric license key, with 498 licenses available and 2 currently in use.
To limit the report to the current usage on the myVDC datacenter, run the following:
prompt> current-usage.bat -datacenter myVDC
To view a weekly report of the number of virtual machines on a cluster called mycluster that have run the vFabric
components from March 1, 2011 to March 31, 2011, run the following monitoring command:
prompt> versions-over-periods.bat -startDate 03/01/2011 -endDate 03/31/2011 -period WEEKLY -cluster mycluster