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Planning the Capacity for Your
Managed Environment Using
vRealize Operations Manager 2
You can use the Projects feature in vRealize Operations Manager to plan for capacity allocations and
upgrades in your virtual environment, or to optimize your existing resources. To plan your upcoming
capacity needs, you create a project that anticipates forthcoming changes that aect the capacity of your
objects.
In addition to creating projects to plan for hardware changes or virtual infrastructure changes, you can
create custom proles and custom data centers to help forecast your capacity needs. With custom proles,
you can determine how many instances of an object can t in your environment depending on the available
capacity and conguration. With custom data centers, you can see capacity analytics and badge
computations based on the objects contained in the custom data center.
How Projects Work
A project is a detailed estimation of the capacity that you must have available in your environment based on
upcoming changes. You can dene projects to add or remove resources from objects such as your
vCenter Server instance, clusters, data centers, hosts, virtual machines, and datastores.
With projects, you plan for changes in capacity, and examine the possible outcomes. You can plan for
increases or decreases in the demand for capacity on your objects.
For example, if you plan to hire more sta in the next month, you must increase the capacity on the objects
that they will use. To plan for this upcoming demand, you can create projects. In your projects, you add
hosts to a data center, add memory and CPUs to a host, and increase the capacity of your virtual machines.
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