Download or read book Cloud Capacity Management written by Navin Sabharwal and published by Apress. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud Capacity Management helps readers in understanding what the cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS are, how they relate to capacity planning and management and which stakeholders are involved in delivering value in the cloud value chain. It explains the role of capacity management for a creator, aggregator, and consumer of cloud services and how to provision for it in a 'pay as you use model'. This involves a high level of abstraction and virtualization to facilitate rapid and on demand provisioning of services. The conventional IT service models take a traditional approach when planning for service capacity to provide optimum services levels which has huge cost implications for service providers. This book addresses the gap areas between traditional capacity management practices and cloud service models. It also showcases capacity management process design and implementation in a cloud computing domain using ITSM best practices. This book is a blend of ITSM best practices and infrastructure capacity planning and optimization implementation in various cloud scenarios. Cloud Capacity Management addresses the basics of cloud computing, its various models, and their impact on capacity planning. This book also highlights the infrastructure capacity management implementation process in a cloud environment showcasing inherent capabilities of tool sets available and the various techniques for capacity planning and performance management. Techniques like dynamic resource scheduling, scaling, load balancing, and clustering etc are explained for implementing capacity management.

Download or read book The Art of Capacity Planning written by John Allspaw and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success on the web is measured by usage and growth. Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure. The Art of Capacity Planning is written by the manager of data operations for the world-famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com, now owned by Yahoo! John Allspaw combines personal anecdotes from many phases of Flickr's growth with insights from his colleagues in many other industries to give you solid guidelines for measuring your growth, predicting trends, and making cost-effective preparations. Topics include: Evaluating tools for measurement and deployment Capacity analysis and prediction for storage, database, and application servers Designing architectures to easily add and measure capacity Handling sudden spikes Predicting exponential and explosive growth How cloud services such as EC2 can fit into a capacity strategy In this book, Allspaw draws on years of valuable experience, starting from the days when Flickr was relatively small and had to deal with the typical growth pains and cost/performance trade-offs of a typical company with a Web presence. The advice he offers in The Art of Capacity Planning will not only help you prepare for explosive growth, it will save you tons of grief.

Download or read book Performance and Capacity Themes for Cloud Computing written by Elisabeth Stahl and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® RedpaperTM is the second in a series that addresses the performance and capacity considerations of the evolving cloud computing model. The first Redpaper publication (Performance Implications of Cloud Computing, REDP-4875) introduced cloud computing with its various deployment models, support roles, and offerings along with IT performance and capacity implications associated with these deployment models and offerings. In this redpaper, we discuss lessons learned in the two years since the first paper was written. We offer practical guidance about how to select workloads that work best with cloud computing, and about how to address areas, such as performance testing, monitoring, service level agreements, and capacity planning considerations for both single and multi-tenancy environments. We also provide an example of a recent project where cloud computing solved current business needs (such as cost reduction, optimization of infrastructure utilization, and more efficient systems management and reporting capabilities) and how the solution addressed performance and capacity challenges. We conclude with a summary of the lessons learned and a perspective about how cloud computing can affect performance and capacity in the future.

Download or read book VMware Performance and Capacity Management written by Iwan 'e1' Rahabok and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master SDDC Operations with proven best practices About This Book Understand the drawbacks of the traditional paradigm and management that make operations difficult in SDDC Master performance and capacity management in Software-Defined Data Center Operationalize performance and capacity monitoring with proven dashboards Who This Book Is For This book is primarily for any system administrator or cloud infrastructure specialist who is interested in performance management and capacity management using VMware technologies. This book will also help IT professionals whose area of responsibility is not VMware, but who work with the VMware team. You can be Windows, Linux, Storage, or Network team; or application architects. Note that prior exposure to the VMware platform of data-center and cloud-based solutions is expected. What You Will Learn Simplify the task of performance and capacity management Master the counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations and understand their dependency on one another Educate your peers and management on SDDC Operations Complete your SDDC monitoring to include non-VMware components Perform SDDC performance troubleshooting Explore real-life examples of how super metric and advanced dashboards Introduce and implement a Performance SLA Accomplish your Capacity Management by taking into service tiering and performance SLA In Detail Performance management and capacity management are the two top-most issues faced by enterprise IT when doing virtualization. Until the first edition of the book, there was no in-depth coverage on the topic to tackle the issues systematically. The second edition expands the first edition, with added information and reorganizing the book into three logical parts. The first part provides the technical foundation of SDDC Management. It explains the difference between a software-defined data center and a classic physical data center, and how it impacts both architecture and operations. From this strategic view, it zooms into the most common challenges—performance management and capacity management. It introduces a new concept called Performance SLA and also a new way of doing capacity management. The next part provides the actual solution that you can implement in your environment. It puts the theories together and provides real-life examples created together with customers. It provides the reasons behind each dashboard, so that you get the understanding on why it is required and what problem it solves. The last part acts as a reference section. It provides a complete reference to vSphere and vRealize Operations counters, explaining their dependencies and providing practical guidance on the values you should expect in a healthy environment. Style and approach This book covers the complex topic of managing performance and capacity in an easy-to-follow style. It relates real-world scenarios to topics in order to help you implement the book's teachings on the go.

Download or read book A Z of Capacity Management written by Dominic Ogbonna and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most often we are told the "what and why" of capacity management, but not how to make it happen. This book provides good practical approach on how to implement the process, with a view to bringing its benefits to the organization. Capacity management is incomplete without business driven capacity planning.

Download or read book Capacity Management 35 Success Secrets 35 Most Asked Questions on Capacity Management What You Need to Know written by Aaron Osborne and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capacity management' is a procedure applied to run data technics (IT). Its main objective is to establish that IT volume encounters present and time to come trade conditions in a cost-efficient way. One commonplace explanation of volume administration is depicted in the ITIL model. ITIL variant 3 perspectives volume administration as containing 3 sub-processes: trade volume administration, facility volume administration, and part volume administration (known as asset volume administration in ITIL variant 2). There has never been a Capacity Management Guide like this. It contains 35 answers, much more than you can imagine; comprehensive answers and extensive details and references, with insights that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This all-embracing guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. This Guide introduces what you want to know about Capacity Management. A quick look inside of some of the subjects covered: Information Technology Infrastructure Library - Capacity management, ITIL - Service delivery, Volume - Related terms, ITIL - ICT technical support, Performance engineering - Service management, Financial management for IT services - Capacity management, Capacity planning, Cloud computing Cloud management challenges, Cloud infrastructure - Cloud management challenges, ITIL security management - Relations with other ITIL processes, Service desk - Other activities, Information Technology Infrastructure Library - Service design, ITIL - Service-level management, Air traffic management, Database administrator, Network performance management, Systems management - Functions, ITIL - Capacity management, Real Time Locating System - Applications, Cloud computing - Cloud management challenges, IaaS - Cloud management challenges, ITIL - Service design, Australian Computer Society - Special Interest Groups, Virtual Iron - The Virtual Iron platform, and much more...

Download or read book Lean Computing for the Cloud written by Eric Bauer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applies lean manufacturing principles across the cloud service delivery chain to enable application and infrastructure service providers to sustainably achieve the shortest lead time, best quality, and value Applies lean thinking across the cloud service delivery chain to recognize and minimize waste Leverages lessons learned from electric power industry operations to operations of cloud infrastructure Applies insights from just-in-time inventory management to operation of cloud based applications Explains how traditional, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Enhanced Telecom Operation Map (eTOM) capacity management evolves to lean computing for the cloud

Download or read book Site Reliability Engineering written by Niall Richard Murphy and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient—lessons directly applicable to your organization. This book is divided into four sections: Introduction—Learn what site reliability engineering is and why it differs from conventional IT industry practices Principles—Examine the patterns, behaviors, and areas of concern that influence the work of a site reliability engineer (SRE) Practices—Understand the theory and practice of an SRE’s day-to-day work: building and operating large distributed computing systems Management—Explore Google's best practices for training, communication, and meetings that your organization can use

Download or read book ITIL Capacity Management written by Larry Klosterboer and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business-Focused, Best-Practice Guide to Succeeding with ITIL Capacity Management Using ITIL® capacity management processes, IT organizations can eliminate waste and overbuying, reduce both equipment and staffing costs, drive more value from existing investments, and consistently provide the right resources to meet the needs of the business. Now, in this comprehensive, best-practice guide, leading ITIL expert Larry Klosterboer systematically explains how to manage capacity using the ITIL framework and techniques. Drawing on his extensive ITIL experience, Klosterboer covers all facets of ITIL-based capacity management, and offers proven solutions to the challenges IT organizations encounter in implementation. He presents expert guidance on accurately projecting demand and growth, planning and staffing, tool selection, process implementation, and much more. This book’s practical insights will be invaluable to every IT leader who wants to leverage ITIL’s best practices for capacity management, and for every business and technical manager who wants IT to deliver greater value, efficiency, and effectiveness. Coverage includes Making the business case for capacity management Establishing specific goals for capacity management Mastering ITIL capacity management terminology Predicting capacity in dynamic, fast-changing organizations Implementing systems that help you anticipate trends Defining capacity plans, staffing capacity management teams, and implementing ongoing processes Linking capacity with performance management and with other ITIL processes Selecting the right capacity management tools for your environment Integrating capacity issues into your IT project management discipline Using “business capacity planning” to help the entire business become more agile

Download or read book Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking written by Greg Schulz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amount of data being generated, processed, and stored has reached unprecedented levels. Even during the recent economic crisis, there has been no slow down or information recession. Instead, the need to process, move, and store data has only increased. Consequently, IT organizations are looking to do more with what they have while supporting growth along with new services without compromising on cost and service delivery. Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking, by savvy IT industry veteran Greg Schulz, looks at converging IT resources and management technologies for facilitating efficient and effective delivery of information services, including enabling of Information Factories. Regardless of your experience level, Schulz guides you through the various technologies and techniques available for achieving efficient information services delivery. Coverage includes: Information services delivery model options and best practices Metrics for efficient E2E IT management Server, storage, I/O networking, and data center virtualization Converged and cloud storage services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) Data protection for virtual, cloud, and physical environments Data footprint reduction and data protection modernization High availability, business continuance, and disaster recovery This much-needed reference brings together technology themes and topics that are converging in IT and data center environments for enabling effective information services, in a practical and hype-free manner. When it comes to IT clouds and virtualization, you must look before you leap. This book will help you address the questions of when, where, with what, and how to leverage cloud, virtual, and data storage networking as part of your IT infrastructure. A video of Greg Schulz discussing his new book is featured on the CRC Press YouTube channel. Visit Slideshare to view a slide presentation based on the book.

Download or read book Availability and Capacity Management in the Cloud written by Daniel McLean and published by IT Governance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Availability and Capacity Management in the Cloud: An ITSM narrative, Daniel McLean’s fictional IT service management practitioner, Chris, faces the challenge of integrating cloud services into an ITSM structure. Based on the real-life experience of the author and other ITSM practitioners, this book tells the story of a cloud services implementation, exposing potential pitfalls and exploring how to handle issues that come with such projects.

Download or read book Advancing Cloud Database Systems and Capacity Planning With Dynamic Applications written by Kamila, Narendra Kumar and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuous improvements in data analysis and cloud computing have allowed more opportunities to develop systems with user-focused designs. This not only leads to higher success in day-to-day usage, but it increases the overall probability of technology adoption. Advancing Cloud Database Systems and Capacity Planning With Dynamic Applications is a key resource on the latest innovations in cloud database systems and their impact on the daily lives of people in modern society. Highlighting multidisciplinary studies on information storage and retrieval, big data architectures, and artificial intelligence, this publication is an ideal reference source for academicians, researchers, scientists, advanced level students, technology developers and IT officials.

Download or read book The Enterprise Cloud written by James Bond and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the buzz surrounding the cloud computing, only a small percentage of organizations have actually deployed this new style of IT—so far. If you're planning your long-term cloud strategy, this practical book provides insider knowledge and actionable real-world lessons regarding planning, design, operations, security, and application transformation. This book teaches business and technology managers how to transition their organization's traditional IT to cloud computing. Rather than yet another book trying to sell or convince readers on the benefits of clouds, this book provides guidance, lessons learned, and best practices on how to design, deploy, operate, and secure an enterprise cloud based on real-world experience. Author James Bond provides useful guidance and best-practice checklists based on his field experience with real customers and cloud providers. You'll view cloud services from the perspective of a consumer and as an owner/operator of an enterprise private or hybrid cloud, and learn valuable lessons from successful and less-than-successful organization use-case scenarios. This is the information every CIO needs in order to make the business and technical decisions to finally execute on their journey to cloud computing. Get updated trends and definitions in cloud computing, deployment models, and for building or buying cloud services Discover challenges in cloud operations and management not foreseen by early adopters Use real-world lessons to plan and build an enterprise private or hybrid cloud Learn how to assess, port, and migrate legacy applications to the cloud Identify security threats and vulnerabilities unique to the cloud Employ a cloud management system for your enterprise (private or multi-provider hybrid) cloud ecosystem Understand the challenges for becoming an IT service broker leveraging the power of the cloud

Download or read book Vmware Performance and Capacity Management Second Edition written by Iwan 'E1' Rahabok and published by Packt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master SDDC Operations with proven best practicesAbout This Book- Understand the drawbacks of the traditional paradigm and management that make operations difficult in SDDC- Master performance and capacity management in Software-Defined Data Center- Operationalize performance and capacity monitoring with proven dashboards Who This Book Is ForThis book is primarily for any system administrator or cloud infrastructure specialist who is interested in performance management and capacity management using VMware technologies. This book will also help IT professionals whose area of responsibility is not VMware, but who work with the VMware team. You can be Windows, Linux, Storage, or Network team; or application architects. Note that prior exposure to the VMware platform of data-center and cloud-based solutions is expected.What You Will Learn- Simplify the task of performance and capacity management- Master the counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations and understand their dependency on one another- Educate your peers and management on SDDC Operations- Complete your SDDC monitoring to include non-VMware components- Perform SDDC performance troubleshooting- Explore real-life examples of how super metric and advanced dashboards- Introduce and implement a Performance SLA- Accomplish your Capacity Management by taking into service tiering and performance SLAIn DetailPerformance management and capacity management are the two top-most issues faced by enterprise IT when doing virtualization. Until the first edition of the book, there was no in-depth coverage on the topic to tackle the issues systematically. The second edition expands the first edition, with added information and reorganizing the book into three logical parts.The first part provides the technical foundation of SDDC Management. It explains the difference between a software-defined data center and a classic physical data center, and how it impacts both architecture and operations. From this strategic view, it zooms into the most common challenges-performance management and capacity management. It introduces a new concept called Performance SLA and also a new way of doing capacity management.The next part provides the actual solution that you can implement in your environment. It puts the theories together and provides real-life examples created together with customers. It provides the reasons behind each dashboard, so that you get the understanding on why it is required and what problem it solves.The last part acts as a reference section. It provides a complete reference to vSphere and vRealize Operations counters, explaining their dependencies and providing practical guidance on the values you should expect in a healthy environment.Style and approach This book covers the complex topic of managing performance and capacity in an easy-to-follow style. It relates real-world scenarios to topics in order to help you implement the book's teachings on the go.

Download or read book Smart Computing and Communication written by Meikang Qiu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication, SmartCom 2016, held in Shenzhen, China, in December 2016. The 59 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 210 submissions. The conference focuses on both smart computing and communications fields and aims to collect recent academic work to improve the research and practical applications.

Download or read book The Art of Capacity Planning written by Arun Kejariwal and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their early days, Twitter, Flickr, Etsy, and many other companies experienced sudden spikes in activity that took their web services down in minutes. Today, determining how much capacity you need for handling traffic surges is still a common frustration of operations engineers and software developers. This hands-on guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to measure, deploy, and manage your web application infrastructure before you experience explosive growth. In this thoroughly updated edition, authors Arun Kejariwal (MZ) and John Allspaw provide a systematic, robust, and practical approach to capacity planning—rather than theoretical models—based on their own experiences and those of many colleagues in the industry. They address the vast sea change in web operations, especially cloud computing. Understand issues that arise on heavily trafficked websites or mobile apps Explore how capacity fits into web/mobile app availability and performance Use tools for measuring and monitoring computer performance and usage Turn measurement data into robust forecasts and learn how trending fits into the planning process Examine related deployment concepts: installation, configuration, and management automation Learn how cloud autoscaling enables you to scale your app’s capacity up or down

Download or read book Capacity Planning with SAP written by Uwe Göhring and published by Espresso Tutorials GmbH. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your organization need to improve the way it manages capacity management in SAP? This book dives into an often overlooked area of SAP and provides readers with an understanding of SAP Capacity Management functionality, including capacity planning, sequencing, leveling, and scheduling. Identify quick wins you can implement to improve results and identify opportunities. Learn more about your options for resource leveling and identify how to leverage capacity planning to build a more robust supply chain program at your organization. Explore how to leverage material requirements planning (MRP) and advanced planning systems (APS) in SAP to build a better supply program. Take an indepth look at how to translate planned and customer demand into an effective production program. Walk through standard SAP ERP functionality available for capacity management planning. By using practical examples, tips, and screenshots, the author brings readers quickly up to speed on the fundamentals of SAP Capacity Management. - How to leverage SAP Capacity Management - Capacity planning best practices - Options for capacity scheduling in SAP ERP - Automatic resource and material scheduling with SAP APO