Capacity Management
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  • Goal
    • To understand the future business requirements (the required service delivery), the organisation's operation (the current service delivery)), the IT infrastructure (the means of service delivery) and ensure that all the current and future capacity and performance aspects of business requirements are provided cost effectively
  • Why capacity management ?
    • Monitoring the performance and the throughput of IT services and supporting IT components
    • Tuning activities to make efficient use of resources
    • Understanding the current demands for IT resources and deriving forecasts for future requirements
    • Influencing the demand for resource, in conjunction with other service management processes
    • Producing a capacity plan predicting the IT resources needed to achieve agreed service levels
  • Responsibilities
    • BCM (Business Capacity Management)
      • Existing service levels and SLAs
      • Future service levels and SLRs
      • The business plan and capacity plan
      • Modelling techniques (analytical, simulation, trending, and baselining)
      • Application sizing methods
    • SCM (Service Capacity Management)
      • Service levels and SLAs
      • Systems, networks and service throughput and performance
      • Monitoring, measurement, analysis, tuning and demand management
    • RCM (Resource Capacity Management)
      • The current technology and its utilisation
      • Future or alternative technologies
      • The resilience of systems and services
 

 

 
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