What-If Analysis - Data Center
Comparison
You can select virtual machines to determine which of the preferred data centers
(along with a specific choice of cluster or default cheapest cluster) are best fit from both
cost effectiveness and capacity requirements perspective. The comparison helps you to find
the right data center to place the workload from cost and capacity perspective.
Where You Find What-If Analysis –
Data Center Comparison
In the left menu, click . The Capacity Plan page opens. Click
What-If
Analysis
and in the What-If Analysis page, click the
ADD
button. Click COMPARE
DATACENTERS
in the Datacenter Comparison: Private Cloud tile.How What-If Analysis - data
center Comparison Works
This feature of Capacity Optimization
lets you to compare cost across data centers within the private cloud environment.
After you select the Datacenter Comparison screen, choose one or more data centers
to compare the cost and run the scenario.
VMware Aria
Operations
suggests
which data center is most cost effective for the selected workload. In defining the profile of your workload,
you have two options:
- Configure the workload manually by specifying CPU, memory, disk space, expected utilization, and annual projected growth.
- Use an existing VM or VMs as templates, importing all the attributes of the selected VMs to your workload scenario. The system allows you to specify how many copies of each selected VM you want to add to the proposed workload.
When you have set the profile for
comparing the workload, run the scenario to get the
VMware Aria
Operations
analysis
and assessment of your plan. You can select up to three data centers to compare
results. Alternatively, you can save the scenario to edit or run later. A list of
saved scenarios is available in the Saved Scenarios tab on the What-If analysis
page.Cost varies from one data center to
another depending on cost settings, which include cost drivers such as servers,
facility, power, labor, license, network, and storage.
The data center comparison feature solves
this problem by allowing you to select a data center which suits your requirement,
is least expensive, and has adequate capacity.