With the big topics covered, it is time to move on to the relatively simpler (however just as important) topic– peak consideration.
Peak consideration was originally introduced in vCenter Operations Manager 5.6, and allows the stress metric to be used to account for capacity spikes and peaks. The use of this setting has two main effects:
- Virtual Machine demand is now based on peak demand rather than average
- Right-sizing recommendations are based on peak demand rather than average
The first key takeaway is that this setting only effects demand; allocation is unaffected. Therefore, this setting is most relevant to CPU demand (as this is more than often a constraining resource) and right-sizing recommendations for both ...
