Chapter 3: Data center capacity planning

• Capacity planning for virtual servers: New risks, new tools

  16 Aug 2007

  Article -  Performance management and capacity planning come with more risk in a virtual server environment. Vendors are rolling out new tools to deal with the problem.

• Aperture unveils new capacity planning tool

  17 Apr 2007

  Article -  Data center management software provider Aperture introduces a new version of its capacity planning tool, Vista.

• Q&A: Data center consolidation expert, Clay Ryder

  30 Oct 2006

  Interview -  Clay Ryder, president of Union City, Calif-based analyst firm The Sageza Group Inc., spoke at Data Center Decisions 2006 last week in Chicago. We caught up with Ryder before the conference for an email interview on the topic of his presentation, data...

• Data center consolidation: 10 takeaways from the pros

  Tip -  A data center consolidation can be the crowning achievement of an IT career, but also one of the biggest gambles. Here are five pros that pulled it off, and five tips to getting it done.

• Data center consolidation, virtualization: Ultra-dense server deployments

  Tip -  Combining blade server, virtualization and SAN technologies in the data center leads to ultra-dense server deployments, which can save on hardware costs and power.

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• How can we design a scalable data center?

  Ask the Expert -  Is there a rule of thumb to size the square footage for a new data center that is cost effective for at least another 10 years? If not, what are the major factors that we need to put into consideration with the new and future server technology in mind?

• Good planning can ease space concerns

  Tip -  Your growing IT infrastructure can be a nightmare for facilities planners who have to think about not only physical space, but also updating wiring, power conditioning and cooling.

• Time is ripe for data center infrastructure databases

  30 May 2007

  Article -  Many data centers track their IT assets in a configuration management database, but as they continue to grow, facility items deserve a database of their own.

• Top 10 things to review when developing a hardware scalability plan

  Tip -  Developing a plan for scalability for an application is based on many complex variables and requires a detailed analysis of the applications, operating systems, and hardware platforms to be used. Here are the top 10 items to include in your analysis and...

• Step-by-step virtualization adoption: Capacity planning

  Tip -  Not every service can be virtualized and that some services require special attention in order for virtualization to work.

• Mainframe capacity planning: More than MIPS

  Tip -  Capacity planning is a well understood, strategic exercise. But data center managers need to consider strategic versus tactical performance planning to keep high-priority workloads running without problems.

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• Top items in a capacity planning and performance monitoring program

  Tip -  Regardless of the size or complexity of your organization, a capacity planning and performance monitoring program is essential for proactive planning and management of your data center.

• Data centers handle holiday rush

  15 Dec 2006

  Article -  For every extra CD bought, book picked out and slot machine pulled during the holidays, an electronic transaction is made. And data centers have to be able to deal with it all.

• Nine tips for nifty capacity planning

  Tip -  It's tough to plan for future capacity needs. It's tougher to know that your plan is on target, and toughest to keep it that way. Read our tip and find out how to do all three.

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