As a virtualization or cloud practitioner, you have been thrown into a new challenge and that is to address capacity management for your organization. But what are some of the best practices to achieve this and how does capacity planning change in the new cloud-computing era?

This is our next blog post in the series for the VMware sponsored eBook “New Best Practices in Virtual and Cloud Management” by author and vExpert Greg Shields (Greg’s BIO). In the last post, we focused on performance management. Today’s blog post focuses on an equally important topic – capacity planning.

Capacity Management is the centerpiece that enables an organization to make sure adequate resources (computing, storage, network etc.) are available for the business, all the time and at the minimum possible cost to the organization. An enterprise faces constantly changing requirements related to capacity optimization and in cloud capacity modeling and planning become even more challenging.

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, VMware Virtualization Management Blog: Capacity Management and Planning Strategies in the Cloud Era- VMware Blogs