Capacity Modeler
Free VM Tool
This powerful, free tool allows you to easily assess the performance impact of capacity changes to your existing virtualized environment. Make changes with confidence.
Capacity Modeler Overview Video
What the Virtualization Blogs Say
Capacity Planning and Deployment Modeling
Capacity Modeler lets you run predictive "what if" scenarios for environment changes after importing your existing VMware environment and incorporating accurate specifications from a list of 428 IBM, Dell and HP server models. Installed as a virtual appliance, Capacity Modeler provides value within 20 minutes from download by:
- Quickly modeling and validating VM deployment, as well as host, cluster, and resource pool allocation scenarios
- Simulating the effects of adding more virtual machines (VMs)
- Assessing the effects of suspending hosts in maintenance mode
- Testing how changing server hardware configurations will affect an environment
- Providing visibility into how implementing VMotion will affect capacity and performance
- Avoiding capacity-related performance issues when making a data center change
Other Free VM Tools
- vScope Explorer provides enterprise-wide visualization of performance, capacity and resource efficiency health across multiple vCenters and resources.
- SearchMyVM provides a Google-like search of your VMs.
- ApplicationVIEW allows system administrators to effortlessly monitor and diagnose capacity bottlenecks in the environment’s top five application VMs.
- CapacityVIEW quickly finds capacity, performance, and over-allocation issues within the entire virtualized infrastructure.
