Specifications

l Disk I/O (IOPS): The IOPS measurement of the disk.
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Net I/O (Mbps)
To make the new settings take effect immediately, click Update at the bottom of
the custom Calculation Settings.
Resource types
When viewing the resource consumption chart as described in the When will I run
out? use case, the thresholds for a warning and an outage are configurable in the
Resource Types section of the Capacity Manager.
To make the new settings take effect immediately, click Update at the bottom of
the custom Resource Types.
Workload
In the Workload section you can define a theoretical set of new VMs to deploy in
your environment to see if your current resources can support it. This is part of the
How much more can I add? use case.
To make the new settings take effect immediately, click Update at the bottom of
the custom Workload.
Sample period
In the Sample Period section you can specify the performance data used to
calculate load on a resource container. The default is to use your average
performance data for all day over the last 30 days, but you can change the default
settings to use only data collected during business hours, or only during daylight
hours.
To use only samples pertaining to certain time periods:
1. Click the radio button next to Start.
2. Specify the daily interval when you want to collect performance data.
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Resource types