This methodology pack describes a prescriptive technique for performing capacity management for custom and COTS applications, with special emphasis on Web applications. It includes non-empirical techniques for forecasting the infrastructure upgrades required to system resources such as the CPU, Memory and Disk subsystems, for a given planning horizon.

Toolkit

Capacity Factor Calculator

Synthetic Benchmark Calculator (available only to CAP137 licensees)

Scalability Metric Calculator

Sample pages from this pack may be viewed below. Pages available: ToC, 1-2, 9, 11 and 14.