Your management has asked you to project your anticipated virtual machine storage needs over the next 18 months. Which technology would help provide the required information?

vCenter Site Recovery Manager is a disaster recovery and site failover orchestration tool and contains no capacity analytics or storage forecasting capabilities.

vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps) collects historical performance and capacity data across the vSphere environment and uses analytics and trend projection to forecast future resource consumption including storage - making it the purpose-built tool for multi-month capacity planning exercises.

vCenter Update Manager automates patching and upgrading of ESXi hosts and virtual machines but does not perform resource trend analysis or storage projection.

vCenter Configuration Manager tracks and enforces configuration compliance across hosts and VMs but has no capacity planning or resource forecasting functionality.