Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how you should approach capacity management in a virtual data center. We saw that there is a fundamental shift, resulting in a two-tier model. The application team performs capacity management at the VM layer, and the infrastructure team performs it at the infrastructure layer.

In the infrastructure layer, we covered the three service tiers and how they differ in terms of capacity management. We covered the actual line charts you need for each service tier.

In Chapter 4, Performance Monitoring, we learned in depth how you should monitor things. We are now ready to dive deeper into the actual dashboards. Chapter 6, Performance-Monitoring Dashboards, will kick off the dashboard series. I'll start by showing you the performance dashboards.