Integrating with BMC Capacity Optimization

When you integrate BMC Capacity Optimization into your cloud environment, you gain access to the following features:

• Capacity-Aware Placement Advice (CAPA) that enables BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to intelligently place workloads based on current CPU, memory, and disk utilization
• Cloud Capacity Visibility (CCV) view that displays utilization and capacity of cloud resources
• Chargeback view for defining and visualizing chargeback information, for example, cost models and target hierarchies, and automatically generating chargeback reports in different formats
• Direct launch of BMC Capacity Optimization from the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management – Administration Console Dashboards workspace

This topic contains the following sections:

To configure BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to use BMC Capacity Optimization features

To integrate BMC Capacity Optimization with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, the BCM Provider and other components required for integration are distributed OOTB along with the setup, and a separate field kit is not required. To enable the CAPA and BMC Capacity Optimization Cross Launch features, and to install the integration on Windows and Linux platforms, you are required to register the BCM Provider in Windows and Linux Platform Managers.

The following sections describe the steps for integrating the BMC Capacity Optimization features with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

Before you integrate the features

Capacity-Aware Placement Advice 

This feature provides real-time recommendations for placement of new workloads on your cloud when provisioning it with BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management. These recommendations are based on available and forecasted capacity.

 The following video provides an overview of the benefits of integrating BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management with BMC Capacity Optimization, to take advantage of the CAPA feature.

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVkfGUty8M

Cloud Capacity Visibility

This feature enables you to view and manage the capacity of cloud entities such as virtual clusters, network containers, pools, and pods in your cloud environment. Also provides an overview of available capacity, utilization, trends, and residual capacity in terms of CPU, virtual CPU, memory, and data storage space.

Chargeback

This feature provides support for defining and visualizing chargeback information, for example, cost models and target hierarchies, and automatically generating chargeback reports in different formats.

To enable or disable launching BMC Capacity Optimization from BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

1. From the vertical Workspaces menu in the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click Configuration.
2. In the Configuration Options workspace, click the Console Preferences tab.
3. In the Cloud Administrator Console Configuration section, set the BCO Console Launch preference:
   • Select Show to enable launching BMC Capacity Optimization from the Resources workspace.
   • Select Hide to disable launching BMC Capacity Optimization from the Resources workspace.

To launch BMC Capacity Optimization from BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management

1. From the vertical Workspaces menu in the Administration Console, click Resources.
2. In the Resources workspace, click and select a launch option.