Calculating spare VM estimates

The Capacity page of the vSphere Infrastructure view provides an estimate of the additional VMs that can be added to a cluster based on a typical VM configuration. Using this estimate, you can identify the clusters with residual or spare capacity. You can customize this typical VM configuration and review the changed estimate of additional VMs that can be added to the cluster.

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Spare VM calculation

Spare VMs are computed by using the resource consumption of an average VM in the cluster. Average VM can be a typical VM in the cluster or a custom VM.

The following table lists formulas for spare VM calculation.

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