Products

VMware Capacity Planner

VMware Capacity Planner is an IT capacity planning tool that collects comprehensive resource utilization data in heterogeneous IT environments, and compares it to industry standard reference data to provide analysis and decision support modeling.

Currently, the VMware Capacity Planner product can be leveraged to offer high-value assessment services for the data center, such as:

Consolidation Estimates (CE):Optimized for conducting pre-sales sizing estimates of a customer’s datacenter environment, CEs provide guidance on what can be achieved via virtualization and consolidation assessments. CEs offer a simplified, guided workflow for VMware Capacity Planner with a defined methodology and process for sales professionals to conduct more sizing and lead generation activity

Capacity Assessments (CA): Optimized for Consultants and Professional Services organizations that want to conduct a deep-dive analysis into a customer’s IT environment. CAs provide a detailed roadmap on how customers can achieve an optimized, virtualized data center. Capacity Assessments show the implementation blueprint for actualizing the “to-be” state of the data center.

Key Benefits

Services based on VMware Capacity Planner deliver the following key benefits:

• Increased productivity with server consolidation and capacity optimization
• Reduced complexity through IT standardization and hardware containment
• Improved predictability with capacity utilization trends and virtualization benchmarks