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4.2 understand capacity usage trends and forecast
future capacity demands
CapacityIQ can help you understand the capacity usage trends in your datacenter and thus help you prepare
to meet future capacity demands. It analyzes the current resource and object utilization to project these
usage trends. CapacityIQ provides multiple views to show the historical trends of capacity usage from various
perspectives — VM and Host deployments, virtual machine, host and cluster capacity usage. You can access
these views by clicking on the View tab. Note that the list of views will change depending on the type of
object selected in the navigation pane on the left.
The virtual Machine deployment-trend view provides the current and forecasted trends for virtual
machines deployed in your environment. Figure 4.2.1 shows an example of that view. Note that these
trend lines are based on best-fit analysis, and may not exactly pass through the exact data points (e.g.
the dashboard in the previous section show that an average 74 virtual machines were deployed in the
VMWDemoDC1-Clr0, and trend line does not exactly pass though that data point).
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