What Is Virtual Capacity Planning?

Virtual Capacity Planning (VCAP) determines how much capacity you'll need in a virtual environment. You know how it is: you're stuck in your office, working at your desk, and suddenly your boss comes out and tells you that he's decided to move your entire team to a virtual environment. You're like, "What? How can this be? It's not even on my radar! " Then the boss tells you that the company has hired a VCAP specialist, who will make all the decisions about what needs to be moved, what doesn't need to be moved, and how many people will have to learn to use their new software. Virtual capacity planning can help determine the number of resources available to the virtual environment and the number required by the new virtual setup. Virtual capacity planning is often completed while designing a new virtual environment. It is essential to plan for the necessary capacity of the background during the design process. In addition to preparing for power, virtual capacity planning must also account for expected growth. Virtual environments can often grow in capacity, but they may need to be able to grow faster to accommodate future requirements. Virtual capacity planning accounts for expected growth by allowing for future expansions or upgrades. Virtual capacity planning is designing a virtualized system that can sustain its assigned workloads, despite fluctuations in traffic and demand. Regarding capacity planning, many different approaches can take many other methods depending on whether you're looking at capacity planning for an entire environment or just one machine (or even just one application). Virtual capacity planning is all about knowing what you need before buying it. It's about planning for everything that might come up and having a way to deal with it when it does!