All-in-One Guides:Data center systems management
Chapter 3: Data center capacity planning
Server capacity planning
Need information on determining what loads your data center's servers can handle? Whether you're managing a mainframe or a Wintel farm, you've come to the right place. This section of our guide to data center systems management covers server capacity planning.
-
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.
-
Exchange Server capacity planning
(presented by SearchExchange.com)
Tip - Learn how to make disk space usage projections for your organization so you won't be caught by surprise when room on your current drives starts to get low.