You can use the Projects feature in vRealize Operations Manager to plan for capacity allocations and upgrades in your virtual environment, or to optimize your existing resources. To plan your upcoming capacity needs, you create a project that anticipates forthcoming changes that affect the capacity of your objects.
In addition to creating projects to plan for hardware changes or virtual infrastructure changes, you can create custom profiles and custom data centers to help forecast your capacity needs.
With custom profiles, you can determine how many instances of an object can fit in your environment depending on the available capacity and configuration. With custom data centers, you can see capacity analytics and badge computations based on the objects contained in the custom data center.
A project is a detailed estimation of the capacity that you must have available in your environment based on upcoming changes. You can define projects to add or remove resources from objects such as your vCenter Server instance, clusters, data centers, hosts, virtual machines, and datastores.
With projects, you plan for changes in capacity, and examine the possible outcomes. You can plan for increases or decreases in the demand for capacity on your objects.
