Tag: Rightsizing
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Rightsizing Cloud Compute Without Breaking Production (Cloud FinOps Series, Part 11)
Rightsizing is the first cost lever most teams pull and the one most often aimed at the wrong workload. How the AWS, Azure and GCP recommendation engines actually decide, where they are blind, and how to act on them safely.
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VCF 9 Performance Tuning vs Cost Optimization: Where to Spend Your Effort (VCF 9 Series, Part 35)
Performance tuning and cost optimization in VCF 9 pull in opposite directions. Here is which levers help which goal, where they collide, and the order I run them in on real clusters.
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VCF 9 Operations Capacity and Cost Management: A Practical Runbook (VCF 9 Series, Part 20)
A hands-on runbook for capacity planning, rightsizing, reclamation and cost reporting in VCF 9 Operations, including the model and policy choices that decide whether the recommendations are worth trusting.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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