In a virtual server infrastructure where all resources are shared, optimal performance can only be achieved with proactive capacity management and proper allocation of your shared resources. The biggest challenge is finding the vast amount of time or automated technology to do this. Not allocating enough resources can cause bottlenecks in CPU, memory, storage, and disk I/O - leading to performance problems and costly downtime events. However, over allocating resources can drive up your cost per virtual machine - making an ROI harder to achieve.
Delivering patent-pending, advanced analytics, Capacity Analyzer enables you to proactively examine thousands of data points on a unique single-screen dashboard. By continuously monitoring shared capacity utilization trends in your VMware ESX environment, Capacity Analyzer significantly reduces the time and costs of:
- Identifying current capacity bottlenecks causing performance problems
- Predicting where future problems will occur and taking preventative action now
- Calculating resource availability across host, clusters, and resource pools, so you know exactly where to safely add new virtual machines
- Tracking the top resource consumers in your environment
- Alerting you when capacity utilization trends exceed thresholds
Server Virtualization Research Library
