Managing the capacity of your VMware vCloud Director

As a Capacity Planner or VMware vCloud Director Technology Specialist, you can use TrueSight Capacity Optimization to configure, administer, and manage the capacity of your vCloud Director infrastructure. You can collect and manage data for a vCloud Director environment that contains resources such as virtual data centers.

As the flow diagram illustrates, the data source (VMware vCloud) collects data from the vCloud resources. The collected data is transferred to the Capacity Optimization data warehouse where it is processed, and then displayed on the user interface. You can use the product features to review, analyze, and manage the capacity of your vCloud resources.

The following section describes how you can achieve these goals.

Managing the capacity of vCloud resources

You can analyze and manage the capacity of your vCloud resources by using the vCloud view. For the resources data to be available in the view, the Administrator must first set up the data source to collect data. 

Step 1. Collect data and install the views

As an Administrator, configure and use the out-of-the-box VMware - vCloud Infrastructure extractor and VMware - vCloud Services extractor ETLs for data collection. 

After data collection starts, data is loaded in the data warehouse daily and Indicators are available in the Workspace.

As an Administrator, you must install the vCloud views and grant the necessary permissions to Capacity Planners and vCloud Specialists to access these views.

Step 2. Analyze the collected data

For detailed analysis of the usage and health of vCloud resources, use the vCloud view.

The following common use cases are described here: