System Performance Management and Capacity Planning

By Bernard Domanski, College of Staten Island/CUNY; John P. Pilch, Performance Capacity Solutions; and E. Jeanne Diaz, Merrill Lynch Abstract

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This tutorial was designed to introduce the manager/analyst new to the field to a variety of techniques and methodologies for capacity planning and performance evaluation. In particular:

• the system life cycle,
• bench-marking,
• modeling techniques,
• workload characterization, and
• performance management will be discussed.

Thus, the primary purpose of this tutorial is to provide an introduction for the novice and an overview for the manager.

The presentation will be divided into three sections. They are:

• A General Systems Approach to Performance Management and Capacity Planning.
• Workload Characterization and Prediction Techniques.
• Simple Performance Calculation

This paper is intended to expose some of the many facets of Computer Performance Evaluation (CPE), and augments the technical content of the presented sessions at the conference.

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This paper was presented at the 2001 CMG Conference.