Chapter 10. Capacity Management with vRealize Operations

This chapter will dive into capacity management for the SDDC. Since requests through the cloud portal now drives the deployment and consumption of services, users expect that there are elastic or nearly limitless resources available. Similar to a public cloud provider, where resources are virtually endless and always available. The big cloud providers typically have a predictive analytics model to understand when if and how they need to provide additional resources to back the users demand.

Typically for a cloud provider, this is accomplished completely transparent in the background. It is their desire to keep the illusion of limitless and endless resources alive for their customers. In the end, this is what a lot of customers are looking for: quick and easy onboarding. No waiting time until some physical installation is going to be finished.

This implies that capacity management in a highly automated environment like the SDDC is a very...