Capacity Planning Analysis/Modeling Service : The Capacity Modeling Service defines the maximum growth that the current configuration and specified alternate configurations can support and still continue to satisfy specific customer service level objectives. General business-related workloads are defined with growth estimates specified for each workload. Capacity models are developed to provide numerous "what if" scenarios on these workloads by showing the effect of their growth on existing and alternate hardware configurations.

Capacity Planning Analysis/Modeling Service :
The Capacity Modeling Service defines the maximum growth that the current configuration and specified alternate configurations can support and still continue to satisfy specific customer service level objectives. General business-related workloads are defined with growth estimates specified for each workload. Capacity models are developed to provide numerous "what if" scenarios on these workloads by showing the effect of their growth on existing and alternate hardware configurations.

The Capacity Planning Analysis service will;

* Assess the customer's overall objective for current and future performance needs.
* At the direction of customer management, interview appropriate personnel to determine number of business workloads, establish of service level objectives and growth increments for these workloads, and select time intervals for their data collection.
* Define, in conjunction with the customer, critical application workloads with service level objectives and growth estimates for each;
* Define hardware configurations to model during the Modeling Service phase, modeling assumptions, and risks (if any).
* Collect reports from logs and monitoring tools (if any)
* Analyze performance data and calibrate workload definitions (if needed) to accurately reflect business activity.
* Verify the performance data sampled will be sufficient to build a performance model. The phases of a Capacity Planning and Sizing Study Interview Phase
* Identify Study Objectives
* Identify principle application workloads, their business forecasting indicators, and any service level indicators

Data Collection Phase

* Collect historical business volume indicators (i.e. account growth, # sales)

Current Performance Analysis Phase

* Quantify Hardware Resource Consumption (CPU, Memory, I/O)
* Identify any Hardware bottlenecks
* Quantify resource consumption among principle application workloads
* Identify any application software bottlenecks

Workload Trend and Growth Analysis Phase

* Quantify resource consumption among principle application workloads as it relates to business growth
* Build simple trend and forecasting models to project future resource requirements for principle application

workloads Report Preparation

* Show hardware resource utilization and contention
* Show application resource consumption and contention
* Quantify application resource consumption against a customer's business forecasting indicators.
* Show trending and forecasting results
* Provide recommendations and conclusions