Capacity Planner for VMware
Capacity Planner works on the configuration and historical usage data collected by IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring to provide recommendations for optimizing the virtual environment.
- Planning Center for VMware wizard
The Planning Center for VMware provides a simple five-step wizard to generate an optimized plan for the Virtual Environment. - Loading configuration data for physical servers
You can load the configuration data for physical servers and virtual machines that are related to the physical servers to the Capacity Planner database for analysis. - Scenario: Consolidate and plan for growth
A capacity planner completes "what-if" planning to accommodate capacity growth while the capacity planner optimizes the environment. Consider a cloud environment that has multiple customer virtual machines that are distributed on two clusters: Production and Development. The capacity analyst can periodically analyze the cloud usage data to do capacity planning regularly. The two clusters currently have three hosts and 37 virtual machines. - Scenario: Adding more servers
A capacity planner adds more servers in what-if analysis to remove a capacity shortfall with existing servers. - Scenario: Adding new virtual machines
A capacity planner wants to allocate new virtual machines in a cloud. - Cloning physical servers and virtual machines
With this feature, you can create clones of existing physical servers and virtual machines in the Capacity Planner. The cloned entries have the same configuration and utilization profile as the original entries. This feature can be helpful in what-if analyses where you want to analyze the impact of having new workloads that are similar to existing workloads in the environment. - Detailed reference: Edit Current Environment
The Edit Current Environment window presents a spreadsheet-like view within a browser window. In this view, you can view and edit the configuration and utilization profile, in addition, define scope. - Detailed reference: Edit Recommended Environment settings
Capacity Planner provides a framework to capture various business and technical rules and apply them during optimization. The policies ensure that when an optimization is done for an environment, the generated recommendation complies with the stated business requirements, and follows technical best practices. - Defining resource sizing by using application sizing rules
You can use the application sizing rules policy template to help define resource sizing that is based on application parameters. Use the sizing rules to adjust computed usage data for virtual machines that match given criteria. By using application sizing rules, you can override computed usage sizing data for resource parameters for virtual machines that match the rule criteria. - Detailed reference: Capacity efficiency and performance risk indices
The plan generated contains two indices to explain the quality of the plan. - Uploading benchmark and server model catalog files in Capacity Planner
You can upload the latest benchmark and server model catalog files in Capacity Planner. - Uploading custom benchmark file in Capacity Planner
You can upload the custom benchmark file in Capacity Planner. - Use cases for network and storage aware capacity planning
- Cognos based report packages
Capacity Planner uses Tivoli Common Reporting.