Faddom allows you to check the current configuration of your environment and suggest improvements. This allows you to understand where you can reduce, or in some cases increase, the resources on specific servers. This saves you time, effort, and, in a cloud environment, costs.
To access this, you select Optimize > Rightsizing from the sidebar.
From here, select the Data Center (on-prem) or Cloud tab. The servers are grouped by data source, and you can select specific applications should you wish
You expand the data source, and you will see the current volume type on the machine, the recommended instance type, and the associated running costs for compute and storage to give you suggested improvements to your environment.
Settings
By clicking on the Settings button, it is possible to customise how Faddom creates the optimizations.
Data Sizing
This tab allows you to set targets for CPU cores, the amount of memory, as well as set the Average and Peak CPU usage. Additionally, you can choose specific custom fields as well to specify how you wish to resize. Once amended, click save, and Faddom will immediately update the values in the table.
Sizing
The sizing tab allows you to set which data set you wish to use as the baseline for making the recommendations for the CPU, as well as any custom scaling you may need. If, for example, you are required to have twice as many CPUs as believed, you will want to set the CPU Scaling to 200%. The same goes for the Memory Scaling option.
For the CPU you have four options for basing your recommendations on -
Average - the average CPU usage that Faddom has detected
95th Percentile - where 95% of the CPUs available are in use
90th Percentile - where 90% of the CPUs available are in use
Peak - take the peak CPU usage that Faddom detected
Note that if you are looking to migrate to the cloud from an on-prem environment, you should use the Migrate feature.