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TheVMinator
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What-if Scenarios without Clusters

What-if scenarios are only available on clusters, but what if you are planning for a cluster that hasn't been provisioned yet?

For example you are going to add x number of VMs requiring x amount of RAM and CPU resources.  You want to know if you create a brand new cluster with a server type never used before in the environment, what does that look like?

You want to answer questions like:

  • How many hosts will I need
  • How fast will I need to add hosts based on projected addition of VMs over time.

Can what-if scenarios be used in some way or a different strategy be employed to get this information?


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mark_j
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I'd say create an empty cluster resource within vCenter. Then after vCOps collects it, run a what-if to add hosts/datastores/VMs.

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TheVMinator
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OK thanks for the input

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