A shift in capacity management

Before we discuss how to perform capacity management in SDDC, let's discuss what changes drastically.

Let's take our restaurant analogy further:

Do you know how much food your diners should consume? You probably do. You've seen a lot of people dining in your restaurant, and you know roughly how much food a person, given his size and age, can consume.

Now, do you have authority on how much food they can order? No, you do not. If a diner wants to order three servings of fried rice for himself, it is his right. You can advise him, but you know you are not the one eating.

Let's take this to our IaaS now. It is up to the VM owner how big a VM he wants to order. In other words, capacity management no longer covers the VM. This is a big shift in capacity management. There is no capacity management for VMs. It has been replaced by VM rightsizing, which is handled by the application team.

Your scope has been reduced to the SDDC layer. Does it become...