VMware Capacity Planner
VMware's Capacity Planner is an inventory and planning tool available to VMware partner organizations. It collects resource utilization information from systems, analyzes the data against industry-standard reference data, and provides the information needed to successfully consolidate the servers into a virtualized environment.
How to do it…
Follow these steps to complete a Capacity Planner engagement:
- Determine the amount of time for which the Capacity Planner engagement should run based on the business cycle.
- Choose the type of Capacity Planner assessment to be run: a Consolidation Estimate (CE) or a Capacity Assessment (CA).
- Deploy the Capacity Planner collector in the environment to be assessed.
- Verify whether the collector ...
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