Capacity planning reports

Capacity planning involves the thorough analysis of historical data, existing trends, and anticipated growth to ensure the resources such as CPU, memory, disk, and network are allocated optimally. Armed with these insights, IT administrators can predict and manage IT resources to effectively meet both current and future demands. OpManager's capacity planning report provides comprehensive data regarding the CPU, memory, and disk utilization of devices within your network, categorizing them as underutilized, overutilized, or idle, respectively.

This strategic approach enables businesses to streamline their operations, enhance reliability, and elevate overall efficiency in order to adapt to the evolving demands of the business landscape.

OpManager's capacity planning reports

OpManager, a comprehensive IT infrastructure management solution, offers powerful capacity planning reports to help organizations optimize resource utilization, and streamline operations. OpManager's capacity planning involves analyzing the current resources and providing the users an accurate estimate about their utilization, enabling users to reallocate resources if needed to ensure optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.

Difficulties in capacity planning

Uncertain future demand: Predicting future demand for IT resources can be challenging due to factors such as business growth, technology advancements, and market trends.

Complexity of IT environments: Highly complex infrastructure with a mix of physical and virtual devices, diverse applications, and dynamic workloads makes predicting and planning the capacity, a bit complicated.

Budget constraints: Budget constraints often limit an organizations' ability to invest in additional IT resources.

How OpManager's capacity planning reports can enhance IT resource management?

OpManager's capacity planning reports offer invaluable insights into resource utilization by providing detailed analysis of server usage patterns, historical data, and forecasting capabilities. With OpManager's monitoring capabilities and capacity planning reports, organizations can optimize costs, improve efficiency, and ensure their IT infrastructure is equiped for handling a scaled up network.

Server rightsizing

OpManager's capacity planning reports can identify and pinpoint underutilized, overutilized, and idle devices, based on user-defined conditions. IT administrators can make decisions on rightsizing and strike a balance between resource allocation and cost efficiency by identifying these devices. OpManager classifies devices according to their resource utilization to help make resource allocation easier.

Underutilized devices: These devices consistently operate below their configured capacity, indicating wasted resources. If the average CPU, disk, and memory utilization of a device is consistently below 30, for more than 50% of the selected time period, the device will be classified as underutilized.

Overutilized devices: The average CPU, disk, and memory utilization of this device will be high, indicating over utilization. These devices operate near maximum capacity, risking performance bottlenecks. If the average CPU, disk, and memory utilization of a device is consistently above 70, for more than 50% of the selected time period, it will be classified as overutilized.

Idle devices: These devices experience minimal to no activity or workload and don't use the resources allocated to them. If the average CPU, disk, and memory utilization of a device is consistently below 10, for more than 50% of the selected time period,it will be classified as an idle device.

With detailed capacity planning reports, administrators can analyze resource utilization for specific monitors over custom time intervals, enabling precise resource allocation adjustments.

Custom rule

The rules for Overutilized, Underutilized, and Idle devices are predefined by default. However, for specific reports, users can create a custom rule to tailor the report to their requirements. Users can customize these rules to generate a custom capacity planning report with a maximum up to four PerfGroups. Click here to learn more.

Cost optimization and efficiency

OpManager's capacity planning reports identifies underutilized, overutilized, and idle devices, and organizations can rightsize their infrastructure, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency. OpManager's advanced filter capabilities allow users to focus on specific aspects of their IT infrastructure, providing indepth understanding about the infrastructure, enabling the organisation to be precise about the needs of the network.

OpManager equips organizations to make informed decisions about their IT infrastructure. Despite the challenges of uncertain future demand, complex IT environments, and budget constraints, OpManager's capacity planning empowers businesses to adapt and thrive. Know more about ManagerEngine OpManager, by downloading our 30-day free trial, or request a quote.