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VMware- Cluster Resource utilisation

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I have HA & DRS enabled cluster with below conf
No ESX host->2 (ESXi 4.1)
No of VM  -> 60
RAM / Host  ->98 GB
CPU / Host  ->2cpux2.66 Ghz and 6 cores per socket

1 I wants to know the overall utilisation of the cluster.
2 How many new VM that i can accomadate in the cluster

I have attached the "Advanced Run Time Info" screenshot over here.
Let me know how can i consolidate the utilisation with the help of Advanced Run Time Info"
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You best thing would be to look at some Capacity Management software:-

vFoglight
Veeam Monitor

But vKernel is the best Capacity Management software.

All available as trial downloads for free, so you can do some capacity management for free for 30 days.
This is what I wrote before when I compared the products, from this question

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/26970069/VMware-monitoring.html

and it's one of the biggest weaknesses of vCenter.

Veeam Monitor and Reporter. Monitor and Reported are seperate programs. offers monitoring options and is the easiest to configure monitoring and alarms, it's the quickest product to get up and running quickly, however, it does not provide any customization which the Quest vFoglight product offers, but if there is a team of you, you will benefit from getting up and running with Veeam Monitor and Reporter, very quickly in your team with out reading manuals or requiring additional training. It has good capcity planning and reporting tools, I don't like the Reporting module, as it requires seperate installation, and database (but hey!). One thing that Veeam Monitor and Reporting lacks is optimization and trending tools.

vFoglight has optimization and trending tools, but I going to recommend another product called vKernel.

vKernel comes as a virtual applicance, it is the quickest to get up and running, and provides fanastic best trending and optimization to find misallocated and misconfigured resources, BUT it's the weakest at monitoring and alarming, and relies heavily on vCenter.

So there you have it....

1. Veeam Monitor and Reporter - Monitoring and Alarming, Capacity Planning.
2. vKernel - Optimization and Trending (if you need it!)
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shall i know how can i measure the availability with Run time info values.
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