VMware Capacity Planner 3.0

VMware Capacity Planner is an assessment and planning tool designed to help organizations evaluate their existing server workloads and model a smooth transition to virtualized or cloud environments. It discovers hardware and software across your infrastructure, collects performance data with low overhead, and identifies underutilized or constrained resources. Using this data, it recommends right-sizing, consolidation ratios, and target configurations, helping you build accurate capacity plans for platforms such as VMware vSphere. The tool supports what-if modeling to forecast growth, evaluate hardware refresh options, and compare scenarios for cost, risk, and performance. Detailed reports highlight virtualization candidates, utilization trends (CPU, memory, storage, and network), and opportunities to improve efficiency. By converting raw metrics into actionable insights, VMware Capacity Planner assists in reducing footprint, improving workload placement, and creating a business case for consolidation or migration initiatives. Suitable for mixed environments and large estates, it provides a data-driven foundation for capacity management and long-term infrastructure planning.

VMware Capacity Planner is developed by VMware. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 and 3.0. The name of the program executable file is vcpDataMgr.exe.