CapacityIQ

The obligatory statement that what's being discussed is conceptual and may not be the same as the end product starts off the talk..





The problem this tools tries to address; Basically we tend to overprovision because we don't have the right tools to predict better.

Virtualization obviously helps in this area.








There are multiple considerations in virtuality
- resource dependencies
- workload mobility
- Cpu and memory optimizations (memory ballooning)
- storage optimizations (thin provisioning linked clones)





The key is that the envirornment is dynamic.

Again SLA's are key and need to be guarded.




The architecture:












Do what if scenarios. Capacity dashboard





You can set alert triggers, fi send me an email when capacity reaches 80%.





Example of a whatif report




The focus is on intelligent planning using trending and it gives tools to optimize your current environment by identifying idle VM's f.i.



How the products work together.