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title: "Capacity Planning Widget"
description: "This widget forecasts how many days remain before the level of resource utilization reaches the specified threshold. This section provides step-by-step instructions that will help you understand how to use the Capacity Planning widget."
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breadcrumb: "Veeam MP for Microsoft Hyper-V User Guide > Appendices > Appendix D. Creating Veeam Dashboard Widgets > Capacity Planning Widget"
dateModified: "2026-09-10"
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# Capacity Planning Widget

This widget forecasts how many days remain before the level of resource utilization reaches the specified threshold.

## Sample Usage

This section provides step-by-step instructions that will help you understand how to use the Capacity Planning widget. Consider the following example:

*You need to analyze memory usage on hosts and make sure that the usage level will not exceed 75% within the next 30 days.*

In a dashboard, click to add a new widget and follow the next steps:

1. At the **Template** step, choose *Veeam > Veeam Capacity Planning Widget*.
2. At the **General Properties** step, specify widget display name and description.
3. At the **Scope** step, choose what infrastructure objects will be included in the widget scope:

   - In the **Specify a scope by selecting a group of objects or object container** box, add the *Veeam Hyper-V Clusters* *Group*.
   - In the **Select a class of objects to calculate capacity prediction** field, choose *Hyper-V Host (Veeam MP).*

4. At the **Specify forecast horizon** step, specify the data collection period and forecast horizon:

   - In the **Make a forecast based on the performance data from the last** field, enter *30 days*.
   - In the **Specify horizon** field, enter *30 days*.

5. At the **Resources** step, specify the expression that will be used for capacity planning. In the **Specify a resource 1** row, enter the following expression: 

   - **Metric**: *%* *Memory Used* 
   - **Operator**: greater *than* 
   - **Threshold**: *75%*

6. Click **Create**.

The widget will analyze host memory utilization statistics for the previous 30 days and will calculate the number of days after which the memory utilization threshold will be breached.

For each host, the widget will show a color bar:

- Days remaining before the threshold breach will be highlighted in *Green*
- Days after the threshold breach will be highlighted in *Red*

Hosts for which the threshold has already been breached, will be represented with the red bar.

[![Memory Usage Capacity Planning](images/widgets_host_capacity.png "Memory Usage Capacity Planning")](images/widgets_host_capacity.png){.toggle scale=57}

::: note

To make a forecast, historical performance data for at least 72 hours is required.

The widget uses historical data for the period specified in the **Make a forecast based on the performance data from the last** field. If there is not enough historical data within this period (for example, there were gaps and interruptions in data collection), the widget will show the warning icon next to the object name.

:::

Veeam MP for Hyper-V also includes default dashboards with the preconfigured Capacity Planning widgets. For details, see [Capacity Planning Dashboards](capacity_planning_dashboards.md).