Managing Capacity in Today’s Data Center
High density equipment, such as blade servers, have dramatically changed the way data centers need to be managed. Controlling costs while ensuring service levels are met has become a significant challenge, especially as it relates to the capacity management of the physical resources within the data center. The interdependencies between space, power and cooling as well as other infrastructure resources have reached a new level of complexity. In addition, the time needed to expand physical infrastructure capacity as well as the impact of reaching the maximum limits for these resources has further complicated matters. The Aperture VISTA Capacity Management application provides data center management with the ability to proactively manage the physical infrastructure capacity challenge in order to ensure the data center can support the objectives of the business.

Aperture VISTA Capacity Management provides reports and processes to give the ideal level of management and control of the data center. Using VISTA Capacity Management, organizations are able to:

• Balance supply of infrastructure resources to meet business demands
• Track critical infrastructure usage and metrics over time
• Forecast future application pipelines to predict the consumption of data center resources
• Determine when data center resources will run out across all data centers
• Provide lead-time for future data center planning
• Understand future trends based on past use and report on key capacity metrics
• Minimize the risks associated with outages or service disruption

Obtain a Holistic View of the Data Center
Aperture VISTA Capacity Management provides insight into the current state and consumption trends for the infrastructure of each data center in the VISTA configuration repository. IT Management can view month-to-month comparisons of key data center metrics highlighting increases and decreases in resource usage. Summary reports provide a dashboard view into infrastructure capacities, detailing current capacity of data center resources across all data centers.

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Aperture VISTA Capacity Management provides IT management with the information required to ensure the delivery of services, manage costs and make better business decisions in today's complex data center.