TrueSight Capacity Optimization overview

TrueSight Capacity Optimization is a capacity management solution that gives you the insight to optimize the use of the IT resources that you already have and to plan for new ones.

It collects and analyzes the capacity data and core metrics for CPU, memory, and storage, and provides recommendations for optimizing them.

With TrueSight Capacity Optimization, 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.

TrueSight Capacity Optimization provides the following key capabilities:

Capacity visibility
Risk management
Resource optimization
Capacity planning

Capacity visibility

Gain visibility into resource capacity, utilization and utilization trends. Use the infrastructure data that is collected to understand the usage and performance of your infrastructure elements, determine whether the infrastructure elements are used optimally and efficiently or are at risk, and plan for future capacity needs.

Feature	Details	Resources
Capacity insight	Use out-of-the-box capacity views to gain visibility into your infrastructure resources. View the usage and availability of all infrastructure resources - on-premises and public cloud. Define customized views as per your requirements.	Using-views-to-analyze-infrastructure-and-virtual-data
Reporting	Use out-of-the-box reports to keep the stakeholders informed about the capacity. Generate on-demand, scheduled, and by-exception reports in different formats, such as HTML, PDF, RTF, XLS and PPT. Automatically publish or send the reports through emails. Gain cost visibility through Chargeback reports.	Creating-reports-and-report-templates
Root-cause investigation	Use Investigate studies to view capacity and performance data of systems in near real-time. Perform adhoc troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for problems on a specific system.	Investigating-capacity-and-performance-issues-in-systems

Risk management

Identify and avoid risks such as immediate resource saturation or upcoming resource saturation (for example, in the next 30 days).

Feature	Details	Resources
Risk identification and management	Review and analyze the out-of-the-box recommendations to detect and resolve capacity risk issues.	Using-recommendations-to-resolve-capacity-risk-and-efficiency-issues

Resource optimization

Identify issues that affect the efficiency and resolve them. For example, idle VMs, overallocated VMs.

Feature	Details	Resources
Resource rightsizing	Review and analyze the out-of-the-box recommendations for rightsizing overallocated resources based on usage patterns.	Using-recommendations-to-resolve-capacity-risk-and-efficiency-issues
Unused resource management	Review and analyze the out-of-the-box recommendations for managing the unused resources (for example, idle VMs).
Automated VM placement recommendations	Create virtualization studies to determine the best use of resource capacity with automated placement recommendations for new or increased VMs.	Creating-virtualization-studies-to-assess-VM-capacity-requirements

Capacity planning

Predict the infrastructure needs, estimate whether the existing infrastructure is adequate to meet the current and future demands, and accordingly plan for the new infrastructure.

Feature	Details	Resources
Forecasting and modeling	Perform "what-if" analysis to predict the resource needs of systems and business drivers.	Modeling-capacity-usage
Capacity reservations	Reserve resources for upcoming application releases. Schedule the release of resources as applications are decommissioned.	Reserving-capacity-for-upcoming-services
Virtual planning	Use the virtualization study results to determine the best placement of new workloads based on resource needs, performance requirements, and available capacity.	Reviewing-virtualization-study-results