Getting started

BMC Helix Capacity Optimization is a cloud-based capacity management solution that gives you insights to optimize the use of your current IT resources and plan for future demands. It collects and analyzes the capacity data and core metrics for CPU, memory, and storage, and provides recommendations for optimizing them.

This section provides an overview of the tasks that you need to perform to start managing and optimizing your capacity.

Configuring users and roles

Some default user groups and roles  are available out-of-the-box when you subscribe to BMC Helix Capacity Optimization. You can start using the product with these users. Additionally, you can configure your identity provider to set up more users and user groups, and assign specific permissions to them. For details, see Managing-users-and-access-control.

Migrating from TrueSight Capacity Optimization

If you want to use BMC Helix Capacity Optimization to manage the capacity of your on-premises environment that is currently being managed by TrueSight Capacity Optimization, you can migrate data and some of the artifacts created in TrueSight Capacity Optimization to BMC Helix Capacity Optimization. For details, see Migrating-from-TrueSight-Capacity-Optimization.

Suggested reading

To learn the business concepts and advantages of using the product, see Product-overview.

To understand the common terms such as business service, capacity pool, and service pools, see Glossary.