Specifications

Chapter 9: Capacity planning
The calculations examine the availability of the following resources on
hosts within the resource container:
l CPU utilization
l memory utilization
l disk space consumption and disk IOPs
l network consumption
2. Load a usage profile that contains VMs that are representative of the new
VMs you want to add. The calculations examine the following consumption
metrics of these VMs:
l CPU
l memory
l disk space
3. Click Calculate at the top right of the Capacity Planning module.
Note: The time the calculation takes is directly proportional to the number of
members in the resource container and the usage profile. Depending on the
number of members, the calculation can take a few minutes.
The Capacity Planning Results table displays the number of VMs you can add to
the hosts within the resource container. The binding resource which prevents
more VMs from being added is also displayed next to the number of VMs in
parentheses. The table contains one row for every cluster with hosts included in
the resource container, and displays the following information for each cluster:
l Workload (constraint): If you specified the number of VMs you want to add
and their specifications in the Workload section of the Advanced Options,
this column displays how many times you can add all of them. For more
information, see Advanced options.
l Small VMs: This column displays the number of VMs you can add if you
only add the smallest VMs within the usage profile, which consume the
least resources.
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