VM Capacity Planning Resources
White Papers
FEATURED: Planning for Performance and Capacity in Virtual Environments
In this white paper, we’ll cover how today’s datacenters have become so complex that everyone is paying the price. You’ll learn why capacity analysis is much more crucial when virtualization is in place and how to analyze capacity in a virtual infrastructure in four easy steps. Read this white paper and prevent downtime in your virtual infrastructure by mastering capacity planning from the experts.
Requirements for Capacity Management in Virtual Environments
Data centers with virtualized environments have a real need for effective capacity management. This white paper discusses why vm capacity management is critical to achieving the benefits of server virtualization, and outlines the three key requirements to consider when evaluating capacity management systems.
Detecting Available VM Slots for Capacity Planning
Knowing how many more virtual machine (VM) slots are actually available is vital to capacity planning in a virtualized environment. Determing Available VM Slots adds structure as well as instruction for using VM performance metrics calcalutations to add precision to capacity planning processes. This free white paper will provide a metrics-based approach to calculate how many more VMs can safely fit in a virtualized environment.
Virtualization Management Software
vOPS™ Server Standard
vOPS™ Server Enterprise (formerly vFoglight + VKernel vOperations Suite) is a tool that provides deep real-time monitoring for VMs, non-virtualized servers, guest OS and applications such as SQL Server.
Capacity Planning Free Tool
vOPS™ Server Explorer
vOPS Server Explorer is a suite of free capacity management utilities for VM administrators. vOPS Server Explorer provides a "Google-like" VM search and environment-wide visualization of performance, capacity and efficiency health.
Videos
Performance and capacity management are playing an increasingly more important role within the datacenter as more systems and more data of a more critical nature with more stringent requirements on IT staff are moved into virtual enviroments. Learn top tips from vExpert and Quest Product Manager, Scott Herold, as he helps navigate some of the many hurdles customers have faced in a maturing virtual datacenter.
VKernel Blogs
DIY Capacity Management in 5 Simple Steps
In this blog, Jonathan Klick, VKernel Senior Systems Engineer, provides his guide to capacity management. Learn how to effectively manage your virtual environment's capacity in five simple steps.
Innovations in Capacity Management
In this three part blog series, VKernel's CMO, Bryan Semple, looks at:
- Emerging trends in capacity management that were driving innovation
- The impact of larger and larger environments on capacity management
- The impact of mission critical applications are having on capacity planning
