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I suppose software licensing is also a capacity management metric that should be considered.
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I suppose software licensing is also a capacity management metric that should be considered.

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Security and Governance - this is where we put Licensing. <br />
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Depends on the product if you have user based license for a product, and it stops the service from working.
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Security and Governance - this is where we put Licensing.

Depends on the product if you have user based license for a product, and it stops the service from working.

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Aside from &quot;free space&quot;, what other metrics do you monitor as part of your capacity monitoring and management policies, and on what types of device, i.e. servers... and what else?
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Aside from "free space", what other metrics do you monitor as part of your capacity monitoring and management policies, and on what types of device, i.e. servers... and what else?

capacity management metrics

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Network Management involves issues that are independent of specific hardware or software, including email policies, upgrade planning, backup scheduling and working with managed service providers for Desktop-As-A-Service (DaaS), Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) and the like through the use of tools, coupled with manufacturer standards, best practice guidelines, policies and procedures plus all other relevant documentation. Network management also includes monitoring, alerting and reporting, management reporting, planning for device or service updates, the backup of configurations, the setting of key performance indicators and measures (KPIs/KPMs), associated service level agreements and problem records as part of the IT Service Management (ITSM) framework.