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vRealize 6.6 Project - planning to create a new cluster

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I need to plan for a new cluster (how many hosts are needed) based off average demand from a VM in an existing cluster. Is this possible? I cant seem to find a way to do it without it including existing capacity of the older cluster... I havent upgraded to 6.7 yet so havent had a chance to check whether a "What-If" would do what i require

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GayathriS
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In Vrops 6.7 there was major change with respective to capacity , refer below  Video :

https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2018/04/new-vrealize-operations-6-7-capacity-costing.html

vRealize Operations Capacity Allocation Overview Dashboard - YouTube

This is for capacity planning : Capacity Planning with vRealize Operations - YouTube

IMP blog :Real-time Capacity Management in vRealize Operations 6.7 - VMware Cloud Management

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I am aware of the change in 6.7 but im looking for a way of designing cluster size in 6.6 e.g. if i create a cluster of 20 Hosts (using existing host example) with 400 VMs (using existing vm example) what will my resource utilization look like.
Admittedly i could do this manually using reported demand figures & host capacity but i was hoping vRealize would be able to provide design assistance based off the metrics its collected.

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When you say design assistance assistance what exactly are you expecting from vrops ?

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ultimately i want it to tell me "you need X number of Hosts to run X number of VMs" based off collected demand metrics but i would settle for it showing me "what-if i add 20 hosts & 400 VMs will my utilization look like?"... However that later would need to be a new cluster and not take into account existing cluster resource

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I haven't come across anything which says you the number of host that is required to run these many VM's .

I see it says how much requires are required not the number of hosts.

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gayathri

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