Working with alleviate pressure plan results

After the plan runs, you can view the results to see how the migration of workloads off of your hot cluster affects your environment.

Alleviate Pressure Plan Results

Viewing the results

The results include the following charts:

  • Plan actions

    You can see a list of actions to reduce the pressure on the hot cluster. It's typical to see actions to move workloads from the hot cluster over to the cold cluster. If some VMs are overprovisioned, you might see actions to reduce the capacity for those workloads.

  • Hosts optimized improvements

    This chart compares the current state of the hot cluster to its state after executing the plan actions. It displays the resource utilization of the cluster's hosts both before and after the plan.

  • Headroom

    With these charts, you can compare the headroom between the hot and cold clusters.

  • Virtual machines versus hosts and storage

    This chart shows the total number of virtual machines, hosts, and storage in your on-prem environment, and tracks the data over time. Chart information helps you understand and make decisions around capacity and utilization, based on historical and projected demand.

Re-running the plan

You can run the plan again with the same or a different set of configuration settings. This runs the plan scenario against the market in its current state, so the results you see might be different, even if you did not change the configuration settings.

Use the toolbar for the Configuration section to change the configuration settings.

Tool Bar

The toolbar items that display are similar to the toolbar items for a custom plan. For details, see Configuring a Custom Plan.

Note:

It is not possible to change the scope of the plan in the Plan Page. You must start over if you want a different scope. To start over, click the More options icon (More options icon), and then select New Plan.

When you are ready to re-run the plan, click Run Again.