VMware Performance and Capacity Management - Second Edition

Summary

We covered how you should approach capacity management in a virtual data center. Once you split capacity management into the two distinct layers, it will become natural and will transition you into the service-provider model. You need to see the application team as a customer who needs to know about the detailed specifications of your infrastructure. You provide them as a service. To achieve this, you need to unify the three components (compute, network, and storage) as one integrated capacity planning component. It is no longer sufficient to look at them as three separate components managed by three different teams.

In the next chapter, we will cover use cases beyond the core performance and capacity management use cases. It will also ...