Custom profiles allow you to expand the capabilities of capacity planning by automating capacity calculations based on specifications that you create. Choosing a committed project will alter our capacity numbers as it assumes the resource is committed. If we don't want these numbers to change, then we can go back and select a plan from the Capacity and Utilization dashboard. Maintenance mode allows us to prevent planned downtime from affecting capacity planning.

The solution must provide the ability to proactively determine capacity issues and risks for the virtual environment. It must provide capacity trending, demand forecasting, and a what-if impact analysis of future projects: 

A custom dashboard will be created for use by the test and development team. The intention is to give a specific view of test and dev VMs in the vSphere infrastructure, focusing on workload, capacity remaining, and reclaimable capacity. The following components will make up the test and dev dashboard:

• Dev VMs overview, displaying health, risk, and efficiency for the server and workstation VMs
• VM workload heat map, color-coded to display the selected type VMs
• VMs with the lowest disk space Capacity Remaining (%) over the past week:

• Idle VMs and VMs with the lowest utilization, flagged as idle if the utilization index becomes 1
• Reclaimable capacity displays the percentage of resources that can be reclaimed
• Powered off VMs and VMs are flagged as powered on