Capacity Management - three new proven practices from Metron

schambers — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:19:11 GMT

One of the hottest topics in virtualization is Capacity Management - if you have more ESX Servers than you have fingers, then this will not be a shock to you! Gone are the days of deploying physical "one-app, one-server" machines that are way over-specified and massively under-utilized (our database of billions of CPU utilization records shows an average Windows server is 6% utilized). Wave bye-bye, everyone

Being able to get more from less means you also need to have a way of working out what more and less actually is, and just to make things interesting these are changing all the time. So the "old" mainframe and midrange approach of capacity management has come to the fore again -
but in the Intel world, who does capacity management? What is the process they follow? What tools do they use?

Three consultants from Metron have each written a capacity management proven practice, based on their experience in the field and using their Athene product - check these out:

Proven Practice - Resource Pool Capacity Management with Metron Athene from Robert Ford
Proven Practice: Capacity Management Reporting for VMware Clusters with Metron Athene from Nick Varley
Proven Practice - Creating a VMware Capacity Management Dashboard with Metron Athene from Jamie Baker

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Capacity Management - three new proven practices from Metron