Capacity Planner 3.6 Beta

Hi all,
We're about to start the Capacity Planner 3.6 Beta and we need your help. Capacity Planner 3.6 has many upgraded components and a new infrastructure which will greatly improve the stability and reliability. In addition we have some tweaks to make it more current. More details to follow.
We are looking for partners who can commit to about 5-10 hours of testing. If you're interested please reply to this post.
Beta will start in April 2015, exact date is TBD.
Arthur Vandewaal, Sr. Product manager
VMware Field Tools team

There are no major changes (no overhaul) in the CP dashboard. The main objective of the CP3.6 release is to make it stable and reliable by upgrading 3rd party components and infrastructure. In addition we have made improvements in the collector and the dashboard. We will post more details shortly.

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