Based on historical data, SHO helps you project future capacity utilization levels of VMs, VM hosts, Datastores, and Clusters for the next 30, 60, and 90 days. Additionally, it helps you identify VM resources whose capacity utilization could reach the configured thresholds in the near future. By default, SHO considers historical data up to 1 year for forecast analysis. The calculation is based on the 95th percentile values of the data collected for each day.
Using the optimization functionality, you can run various scenarios to project future utilizations while varying the VMs, VM hosts, or both. For more information, see Optimizing Your Infrastructure.
The Forecast functionality allows you to perform:
Click Forecast > Executive Summary on the menu bar to view the Data Center level summary of resources. For more information, see Forecast Summary View
Click Forecast > Detailed View > <Group name> on the menu bar to view the infrastructure details for individual Groups. For more information, see Forecast Details.