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vRealize Operations Manager applies your project and scenario to the visualization chart. The capacity
forecasted in the project appears as a gray line in the chart. Compare the current capacity to the expected
capacity if you commit this project to remove one or more virtual machines from the selected object.
What to do next
You can create other projects, and combine or compare the outcomes in the visualization chart.
Custom Profiles in VMware vRealize Operations Manager
A custom prole is a user-dened instance of the capacity allocation and demand for a specic object type.
You can use custom proles to help forecast the capacity needs for your environment.
To determine how many instances of the object can t in your environment, use custom proles with
projects and scenarios. Depending on the available capacity in your environment, you can add one or more
instances of the object that the custom prole capacity requirements represent.
When you create a custom prole for an object type, such as a virtual machine, you create a project and add
a virtual machine scenario to it. In the project scenario, you select your custom prole to populate the
metrics and capacity for that object type to the project scenario. You use the capacity sizing of your custom
prole to forecast the capacity needs for the parent object of the virtual machine.
To determine how many instances of the custom prole object you can include on the parent object, you
select the parent object, click Analysis, and click Capacity Remaining. The custom proles appear on the
What Will Fit section of the Capacity Remaining Breakdown area, and indicate how many instances of the
object t in your environment.
Custom Datacenters in VMware vRealize Operations Manager
A custom data center is a user-dened container for a group of objects that includes clusters, hosts, and
virtual machines. Custom data centers provide capacity analytics and capacity badge computations based
on the objects it contains. You can use custom data centers to forecast and analyze the capacity needs for
your environment.
When you create a custom data center, you can include multiple cluster objects that span multiple
vCenter Server instances. For example, you might have a production environment that spans multiple
clusters, and you must monitor and manage the performance and capacity of the entire production
environment.
After you create your custom data center, you can select it in the list of custom data centers to display a
summary of its health, risk, and eciency. This view displays the top alerts for the data center. To examine
the capacity remaining for the custom data center, click the Analysis tab, and click Capacity Remaining.
You can use your custom data center objects to balance the workload across the clusters in your
environment. Click Home, click Dashboard List, click the dashboard named Workload Distribution, and
view the use of your custom data center in the dashboard.
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