What is a vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA)?
VMware’s vSphere Optimization Assessment advanced analysis tool provides comprehensive assessment of the optimization opportunities in your virtualized environment with a configuration audit report, a performance improvement report and a capacity optimization report. This enhanced evaluation collects data to help you realize the benefits of intelligent IT operations, allowing you to:
- Maximize usage with capacity monitoring analytics across compute, network and storage while automating reclamation.
- Proactively identify and remediate issues with predictive analytics and smart alerts.
- Optimize resource use through a unified console.
Benefits from the vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA)
With VMware VOA, you can proactively address health, performance monitoring and capacity management of IT infrastructure and applications in your virtualized data center, as well as across heterogeneous and hybrid cloud environments. This enables you to improve efficiency, performance and availability. Benefits include:
- Capacity optimization — Operate IT assets as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible with intelligent workload placement and rebalancing, capacity management, planning and forecasting.
- Performance and availability — Run business-critical applications with confidence. Improve performance, avoid disruption and accelerate troubleshooting with self-learning management tools and policy-based automation.
- Heterogeneous/hybrid data center monitoring — Get comprehensive visibility in a single console, from infrastructure to applications and public clouds, with an open and extensible platform.
Assessment flexibility
VOA provides your organization with the flexibility to choose an assessment time frame that supports your requirements, from one to 30 days:
- The configuration report can be completed within one day for all environments.
- The performance report can be completed within one to three days for less dynamic environments.
The capacity report can be completed within three to 30 days as it provides more accurate recommendations.