Scenario: Adding new virtual machines
A capacity planner wants to allocate new virtual machines in a cloud.
About this task
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.
Consider a scenario where three new virtual machines must be added to the cloud for a specific customer. The planner can assess where to allocate the resources: at a cluster level or optionally at a host level. The request can be actual or a predicted future request for what-if analysis.
Procedure
- On the PlanningCenter page, which is shown in Planning Center for VMware wizard, click Define Scope to open the Edit Current Environment page, which is shown in Figure 1.
- Select the checkboxes corresponding to the Production and Development servers.
- Click to open the virtual machines view. This view shows the virtual machines from the selected servers. A column specifying the customers that the virtual machines belong to can be added as described in adding a custom tag.
- Click to add a virtual machine for the customer. The new virtual machine is displayed in the scope.
- On the PlanningCenter page, click Edit Recommended Environment Settings, which is shown in Figure 9, to open a new window, which is shown in Figure 1. In this window, you can detail customer-specific rules. For more information about rules, see Detailed reference: Edit Recommended Environment settings.
- On the PlanningCenter page, click Generate Plan.
Results
Figure 1. Optimization
plan including new virtual machine
Note: Information about the mapping of the added virtual machines
to the recommended physical server is contained in the detailed section
of the optimization plan.