Capacity monitoring in the SDDC

Most organizations do a very basic but well-established form of capacity planning. Typically resources are tied to projects or to a bigger data center initiative. Groups participating that initiative may provide a budget and growth plan. These plans are used to buy required hardware, which will be available for the entire project time phase. Sometimes, if more resources are required as expected, there will be additional servers shipped to fulfill this demand during the project run time. All this requires a proper planning and a big amount of human interaction. Also it requires being aware of what is going on in the data center and a good amount of preplanning.

Traditional monitoring and capacity planning tools might not be able to deal with the different requirements a SDDC introduces. Furthermore, using legacy capacity planning tools might increase the overhead for the workforce and in worst cases maybe even limit the way the SDDC can be consumed.

Since the...