October 13, 2009
Overview
The VMware Capacity Planning Engagement is a business and IT capacity planning tool for the data center and desktop that provides an integrated set of analysis, planning, and decision functions to enable faster, measurable, and more accurate infrastructure assessment services.
VMware Capacity Planner
Delivered as a hosted application service, VMware Capacity Planner enables comprehensive virtualization and system consolidation assessments. These assessments will help you make smart decisions when consolidating your data center or desktop infrastructure, redeploying strategic IT assets, and optimizing workload capacity utilization. Designed for agent-less implementation, VMware Capacity Planner rapidly collects infrastructure data and provides improved visibility of heterogeneous, complex IT environments while delivering critical insights into resource utilization for driving intelligent infrastructure capacity decisions.
Using VMware Capacity Planner in the Enterprise
VMware Capacity Planner is used as a business analysis, planning, and decision support tool to direct the key phases within a variety of infrastructure assessment projects as described below:
- Assess the current workload capacity of your data center or desktop infrastructure through comprehensive discovery and inventory of IT assets. Measure system workloads and capacity utilization across various elements of the IT infrastructure - including by function, location, and environment.
- Plan for capacity optimization through detailed utilization analysis, benchmarking, trending, and identification of capacity optimization alternatives. Identify resources and establish plan for virtualization, hardware purchase, or resource redeployment.
- Decide on the optimal solution by evaluating various alternatives through scenario modeling and “What-If” analyses.
- Determine what alternative best meets the pre-defined criteria.
- Monitor resource utilization through anomaly detection and alerts based on benchmarked thresholds. Help generate recommendations to ensure ongoing capacity optimization.
To get more information about VMware Capacity Planner, please click here to visit the VMware Web site.
To find out if a VMware Capacity Planning Engagement is appropriate for you company, or if you need an authorized VMware reseller to conduct a Capacity Planning Engagement, please call Accudata Systems at 800-246-4908 or e-mail us at info@accudatasystems.com.
About Accudata Systems, Inc.
Accudata Systems is an IT consulting and integration firm with more than twenty-seven years of experience providing high impact IT services and integrated solutions. With focused competencies in Enterprise Platforms, Security, Infrastructure, Assessments & Compliance, Unified Communications, and Managed Services, Accudata Systems provides a full array of services ranging from technology assessments to project deployment and support. As trusted advisors to our clients, we assist them in creating and supporting a computing environment that maximizes their investment in information technology. Accudata Systems is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has offices in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Los Angeles. Get more information at www.accudatasystems.com .