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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
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Other Free VM Tools

  • vOPS™ Server Explorer has two free VMware utilities. One utility (vScope Explorer) provides enterprise-wide visualization of performance, capacity and resource efficiency health across multiple vCenters and resources. The second utility (SearchMyVM Explorer) provides a Google-like search of your VMs.
  • vOptimizer Free is a free VMware tool that helps prevent VMs from running out of space while also identifying misaligned disk partitions to boost storage performance.
  • 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.