Projects are a new feature that first appeared in vRealize Operations 6.0 and replaced the old 'what-if' functionality from vCenter Operations Manager 5.x. A project is an upcoming change to your environment that either affects the supply or demand (or both) of capacity. Projects allow capacity modeling to help an administrator set up hypothetical scenarios, such as adding or removing virtual machines and hosts from a cluster. These scenarios can then be used to determine how a pipeline of incoming organizational projects will affect the time remaining calculation. An image of the Projects screen is shown as follows:
Although projects ...