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
• Direct launch of BMC Capacity Optimization from the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management – Administration Console Dashboards workspace

To learn how to integrate with BMC Capacity Optimization, see Configuring-the-integration-of-BMC-Capacity-Optimization-features-with-BMC-Cloud-Lifecycle-Management.

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

1. From the vertical Workspaces menu in the 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.