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 failover orchestration tool focused on replication and runbooks, not capacity planning or resource forecasting.

vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) includes built-in capacity planning and performance analytics that analyze historical resource consumption trends - including storage - and can project future capacity needs over a defined timeframe, making it the appropriate tool for an 18-month storage forecast.

vCenter Update Manager manages patches and updates for ESXi hosts and virtual machines and has no capacity planning or storage trend analysis capabilities.

vCenter Configuration Manager handles configuration compliance, drift detection, and change management, not resource usage forecasting or storage capacity projection.