Here are just a few of the uses for capacity planning:
• Predicting when your infrastructure will no longer be able to meet service levels
• Determining which infrastructure elements will become future performance
bottlenecks
• Comparing private cloud vs. public cloud costs
• Finding and repurposing under-utilized IT infrastructure
• Determining which workloads can efficiently live together on the same hardware
• Accurately predicting performance for different VM densities
• Finding redline performance limits without costly testing on large, production-like
environments
• Preparing for future business workloads, whether forecasted or unexpected