Manage Your Capacity to Increase Your Availability
Maximize availability through proactive capacity management.
RETIRED CONTENT
Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Remaining reactive in your capacity management approach will lead to:
- Over-provisioning of infrastructure components, resulting in excess spending.
- Availability challenges due to lack of insight into business capacity demands.
- Remaining in fire-fighting mode without a plan as capacity demands increase beyond control.
Manage your infrastructure capacity proactively to achieve benefits such as:
- Increased availability of services and business processes.
- Overall fiscal savings through reductions in unnecessary excess capacity purchasing.
- Proactive capacity predictions based on a better understanding of the needs of the business.
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Module 1: Observe and Monitor
The Purpose
- Establish visibility into your existing capacity and impacting initiatives.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Visibility into the capacity of components, exiting initiatives that impact capacity, and upcoming initiatives.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Align business initiatives and intake sources |
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| 1.2 | Conduct a business impact analysis |
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| 1.3 | Comprehend components |
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Module 2: Manage Capacity and Availability
The Purpose
- Take action! Set thresholds, manage risk, and use your tools to take actions as capacity and availability become a challenge.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understanding when to take capacity and availability-related actions and what actions you should take.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Initiate event management |
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| 2.2 | Establish thresholds |
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| 2.3 | Explore management options |
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| 2.4 | Appreciate risk management |
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| 2.5 | Onboard new capacity requests and components |
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Module 3: Implement Modeling
The Purpose
- Use trending, metrics, and other insights to predict capacity requirements and reduce availability challenges.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Predictive planning of capacity requirements.
- Increased availability.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Understand trending |
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| 3.2 | Define availability metrics |
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| 3.3 | Availability in the business context |
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| 3.4 | Finalize the plan |
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