VMware vCenter CapacityIQ is a value-add component of the VMware vCenter family of management solutions, providing capacity management capabilities for virtualized datacenter or desktop environments. CapacityIQ integrates seamlessly with VMware vCenter Server, ensuring that your virtualized infrastructure capacity is always predictable and efficiently used.

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ balances business demand with IT supply, without compromising performance, availability and security. With CapacityIQ, your IT infrastructure is guaranteed to have sufficient capacity to meet any business service level agreements.

IT organizations can leverage VMware vCenter CapacityIQ in a number of scenarios, including:

• Cost avoidance and justification. Do more with the same or less! Optimize utilization of existing hardware resources or justify any new business purchases.
• Availability and risk mitigation. Plan for potential business and service disruptions proactively by modeling the impact of an outage, failure or disaster.
• Project planning and decision-making. Model the effect of one-time strategic business changes. Quantify the results of workload consolidations, company acquisitions, additional new headcounts or deployment of multi-tiered applications.

Perform “What-If” Impact Analysis to Model Effect of Capacity Changes

Respond quickly to changing market and business requirements by simulating one-time, real-world use cases. Whether your company is acquiring or consolidating businesses, adding new headcount, or deploying multi-tiered applications.

CapacityIQ allows you to model various scenarios to understand and quantify the true business impact. With the right capacity intelligence, you can make informed purchasing, provisioning and planning decisions.

Identify and Reclaim Inefficient, Unused Capacity

Managing or monitoring your VM or workload requires a lot time, resources and discipline— a very tedious and consuming task. As a result, your datacenter environment may not be fully optimized.

With CapacityIQ, you can easily and quickly identify any idle or inactive VMs in your datacenter. By right-sizing or decommissioning these VMs,you can safely free up any unused capacity in order to eliminate waste and reduce costs in your organization.

Forecast Timing of Capacity Shortfalls and Bottlenecks

Your job is to deliver the right capacity at the right time—whenever and however it is needed. In a dynamic environment, this can be very difficult without the right tools.

CapacityIQ continuously profiles, analyzes and tracks your capacity needs at multiple levels: VM, host, cluster and datacenter. Based on historical capacity consumption patterns, CapacityIQ can trend and forecast your current and future capacity needs, ensuring that capacity is always available to meet any service level agreement.