5.6 Capacity Management and Trending in the Cloud
Effective capacity management is essential for a public or private cloud to have enough capacity to satisfy demand while minimizing unutilized or underutilized resources. An understanding of consumption trends allows service providers to plan for additional capacity in a timely manner.
Monitoring capacity management and trending with vRealize Operations Manager addresses the following use cases:
• Providing information on how many virtual machines of various sizes can be accommodated with remaining capacity
• Providing service providers with information on current consumption and utilization trends, allowing service providers to maintain enough capacity to accommodate further workloads without over-provisioning resources
• A means to implement proactive capacity management based on a known pipeline of future workloads
• Ability to drive out costs through ‘just in time’ provisioning
• Forecast of utilization trends