Cloud capacity planning is all about workloads having the required resources as well as reducing the cloud bill due to overprovisioned workloads.
Cloud capacity planning aims to match demand with available resources. It analyzes what systems are already in place, measuring their performance and predicting demand. Organizations can then provision and allocate cloud resources based on that demand.
Businesses generally benefit from effective cloud capacity planning in several ways, such as:
- Performance enhancement: When performance applications are ineffective, organizations can experience poor user experiences, and even customer churn. IT can help avoid this by uncovering and fixing the performance bottlenecks from systems and applications as part of strategic cloud capacity planning. Additionally, it enables IT to make more informed decisions on how to achieve optimal performance in a cost effective way.
- Increased agility and flexibility: A major benefit to cloud capacity planning is access to historical data and usage patterns. This enables IT to effectively plan for unforeseen spikes in demand without disrupting the business.
Cost reduction is also a factor. Strategic cloud capacity planning helps IT anticipate and plan for potential business changes that can impact cloud resource management.
The cloud can also make capacity planning easier. At least, the cloud makes it easier to add or remove capacity when needed. If you need to add more capacity to a system tomorrow, you’ll have the flexibility to spin up more capacity.
Cloud capacity planning often follows specific steps. These include:
- Determine the distinctiveness of the present system
- Determine the working load for different resources in the system such as CPU, RAM, network, etc.
- Load the system until it gets overloaded; & state what’s requiring to uphold acceptable performance.
- Predict the future based on older statistical reports & other factors.
- Deploy resources to meet the predictions & calculations.
Want to learn more? Tonex offers Cloud Capacity Planning Training, a 2-day course that covers all the aspects of Capacity Planning for the Cloud and DevOps methods.
Cloud Capacity Planning Training provides the details of capacity planning as a repeatable process for IT Cloud infrastructure, virtualized functions, data centers, 5G wireless (NFV/SDN/Network Slices) and modern networking and telecom systems.
Additionally, Cloud Capacity Planning Training course covers tactics for doing cloud performance analysis, system sizing, performance measurements, trend analysis and using DevOps methods and processes.
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