Latest Capacity Planner Tool

[ChevUribe]

Is there a latest VMware Capacity Tool or equivalent of this?

[Xlord]

ChevUribe,

You should try a minimum tool from VMWare Operation Managment which hosted to vCenter as appliance, that should tell you all the clusters/hosts workload, resource, storage etc in a single dashboard. Upon those information, you should then able to workout your capex accordingly and easierly. (Sources: Server Virtualization with VMware vSphere)

Xlord

[ChevUribe]

How about were gonna size some physical servers which will be converted to VMware? Do we have an updated Capacity Planner tool? I believe the one were using is not updated and for sure a lot of sizing considerations has been made since then.

[Xlord]

ChevUribeChevUribeChevUribe

Not that I know of any sort of capacity planner tool on the market, but there is guide for you for your consideration from physical server to VM,

1) Before conversion you need to prepare the same size of CPU/RAM/Disk at the target VM server.

2) You are recommended to reserve more than 1.5x of original size of your physical disk size in source server during the P2V convert process.

3) After your physical server migrated to target VM server, you are recommended to spare 1.5x additional disk size for VM memory management of the VM guest.

That is about it and hope to help you.

Xlord