Patent 8738333 was granted and assigned to VMware on May, 2014 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
One or more embodiments provide methods of creating datacenter capacity and/or load models for a datacenter in a virtualized environment; methods of simulating the capacity and/or load models (“What-if” simulations); and methods of visualizing simulation results for assessing the impact of the capacity and/or load models on the datacenter capacity.