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BMC's TrueSight Capacity Optimization is an infrastructure capacity planning option.
Best Infrastructure Capacity Planning Tools 2025
Infrastructure Capacity Planning Tools help align IT resources with their actual usage patterns and business priorities to optimize costs.
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What are Infrastructure Capacity Planning Tools?
Infrastructure capacity planning tools use simulations and analytical modeling to forecast future IT resource requirements. The information they provide improves IT service delivery, contributes to cost-effective IT infrastructure resource utilization, and helps ensure adequate capacity is available for future growth.
Using historical data these simulations and models identify how workload or infrastructure changes will impact IT infrastructure performance. They pinpoint the areas that are likely to become bottlenecks or constraints and identify areas where resources are unbalanced or underutilized. This information facilitates reserving, scheduling, and allocating IT infrastructure resources for onboarding new applications.
Workload simulation and analytical modeling cover the areas of CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, network usage, database, and app performance inclusive of physical, virtual, and cloud-based resources. They support IBM, Linux (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX), Oracle, HP, Virtual (VMware, Hyper-V, Xen), and Windows systems and servers along with all the major cloud service providers, AWS, Azure, Google, and IBM.
Infrastructure Capacity Planning Tools Features
Simulation modeling and automated analytical modeling
Modeling for physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructure resources
System, app, and network performance modeling
Identifies potential bottlenecks or constraints based upon increased workloads or infrastructure changes
Predicts infrastructure resource growth and requirements
Data visualization and reporting
Integration with capacity management and performance monitoring data
Cloud-based or on-premises options
Infrastructure Capacity Planning Tools Comparison
When purchasing infrastructure capacity planning tools consider the following.
Features: Basic capacity planning tools are found in capacity management and performance monitoring software. Capacity planning tools that go beyond trend analysis and include simulation modeling and automated analytical modeling provide more accurate forecasting.
Infrastructure Resource Type: Some tools specialize in specific aspects of IT infrastructure capacity planning such as network planning. Others support a full range of infrastructure capacity planning.
Pricing Information
Infrastructure capacity planning tools usually require a vendor quote as the scope and variety of infrastructure assets are unique to each organization. Free trials and demos are available.Loading related categories...
Infrastructure Capacity Planning FAQs
What do infrastructure capacity planning tools do?
Infrastructure capacity planning tools model how workload or infrastructure changes impact IT infrastructure performance. It helps organizations manage changing infrastructure demands. It identifies potential bottlenecks and provides the information needed to ensure adequate capacity for future growth.
What are the benefits of using infrastructure capacity planning tools?
Risk Management: Proper infrastructure capacity planning minimizes business risk and avoids outages.
User/Stakeholder Satisfaction: Correct resource allocations enhance IT service delivery.
Decision Making: Contributes to informed decision-making, infrastructure planning, and budgeting.
Financial: Optimizes resource allocation and infrastructure spending and better positions the business to take quickly take advantage of business opportunities.
How much do infrastructure capacity planning tools cost?
Infrastructure capacity planning tools usually require a vendor quote as the scope and variety of infrastructure assets are unique to each organization. Free trials and demos are available.
