Server capacity planning

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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.

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  • 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

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    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.