The Ten Cardinal Rules of Capacity Planning
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- Introduction
- 1: Agree on a Common Definition of Capacity Planning
- 2: Select a Capacity Planning Process Owner
- 3: Identify Key Resources To Be Measured
- 4: Measure the Current Utilizations of the Resources
- 5: Compare Current Utilizations to Maximum Capacities
- 6: Collect Meaningful Workload Forecasts from Representative Users
- 7: Transform Forecasts into Resource Requirements
- 8: Map Requirements Onto Existing Utilizations
- 9: Predict When the Shop Will Be Out of Capacity
- 10: Update Forecasts and Utilizations
- Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute
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Experienced infrastructure expert Rich Schiesser knows the best and worst techniques to use when planning for the adequate capacity of computer resources. In this article, he describes his 10 cardinal rules for implementing an effective capacity planning process.
This article is adapted from Rich Schiesser's book IT Systems Management: Designing, Implementing, and Managing World-Class Infrastructures (Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 0-13-087678-X).
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Introduction
A formal capacity planning program is usually one of the last processes that an organization will implement. There are many reasons, but chief is that this strategic process belongs in a highly tactical environment. Infrastructures typically shine at day-to-day problem solving, spur-of-the-moment firefighting, and short-term resolution of issues. It isn't so much that infrastructures are adverse to strategic processes. More likely, they rarely get to strategic activities due to the daily onslaught of tactical matters to address. This article describes 10 cardinal rules for planning for the adequate capacity of computer resources within an infrastructure.
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