Here are some questions that can get you started with your capacity planning discussion:
- Is your focus today on demand, allocation, or both?
- Do you overallocate the following resources on your host systems and virtual machines?
- CPU
- Memory
- Storage
- If you do overallocate resources, by what percentage do you overallocate them?
- Do you use VMware vSphere High Availability?
- If so, what percentage of hardware have you reserved for High Availability?
- Do you use a buffer?
- Where do you place your workload types?
- Are production workloads in their own clusters?
- Are test/development workloads in their own clusters?
Know your priorities for managing capacity and risk across your environments. For example, performance ...
