Product overview
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. You can model future resource needs and predict what IT resources you will need. The IT infrastructure includes physical, virtual, containers, private cloud, and public clouds.
BMC Helix Capacity Optimization is available on the BMC Helix Platform. BMC Helix is a portfolio of SaaS offerings delivering service and operations management that is fast, accurate and cost-effective, across multi-cloud, multi-device, and multi-channel environments. BMC Helix services are delivered from your cloud location of choice and receive the benefits of BMC's world-class SaaS Operations team and processes.
Video introduction
The following video (4:02) provides a brief introduction of the product.
Product goals
BMC Helix Capacity Optimization provides the following key capabilities:
Key concepts
The Business Services view is a feature that provides a consolidated summary of all business services in your infrastructure. You can drill down into specific business services and view the associated applications and service pools details, and analyze the capacity at the service pool level. For details, see Business-services-applications-and-service-pools.
Capacity Pools are logical groupings of homogeneous resources of infrastructure capacity. They aggregate the capacity data coming from different entities available in the IT infrastructure; for example, by business importance, customer, owner, geography, etc. For details, see Capacity-pools.