Patent ID: 8046767

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a capacity management tool, a capacity management operation request that specifies a resource pool-level operation desired for managing capacity of a resource pool that services workloads, including a request to remove at least one resource from the resource pool, wherein said capacity management tool interacts with a calendar-based capacity plan, wherein said capacity management operation request is received from the calendar-based capacity plan; determining, by the capacity management tool, in response to the received request, one or more actions to perform in the resource pool for performing the requested capacity management operation in compliance with defined operational parameters of the workloads wherein, for workloads assigned to the at least one resource to be removed from the resource pool, determining to which one or more remaining resources in the resource pool such workloads should be re-assigned to enable all workloads being serviced by the resource pool to comply with their respective defined operational parameters; and performing the determined one or more actions for performing the requested capacity management operation.