VMware's Capacity Planner is an inventory and planning tool available to VMware partner organizations, which 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.
Using VMware Capacity Planner
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...