How to Manage Capacity in Virtualized Environments

Virtualization introduces a new capacity management paradigm, forcing IT administrators to reassess how they currently plan and manage data center capacity. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Rob Smoot discusses various capacity management methods, explaining why capacity management is important, and how it differs in the physical world versus a virtualized one.

With virtualization, data center resources are shared in an adaptive, large communal pool of dynamic capacity. Because capacity is shared, there is a ripple effect in the data center cluster; when one application or virtual machine zigs, others must zag in response since capacity is
finite.

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