Difference between revisions of "Capacity Management"
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| − | Wikipedia defines Capacity management as a process used to manage information technology (IT). Its primary goal is to ensure that IT resources are right-sized to meet current and future business requirements in a cost-effective manner. One common interpretation of capacity management is described in the ITIL framework. ITIL version 3 views capacity management as comprising three sub-processes: business capacity management, service capacity management, and component capacity management (known as resource capacity management in ITIL version2).<ref>Capacity Management Defition [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_management Wikipedia]</ref> | + | Wikipedia defines Capacity management as a process used to manage [[Information Technology (IT)|information technology (IT)]]. Its primary goal is to ensure that IT resources are right-sized to meet current and future [[Business Requirements|business requirements]] in a cost-effective manner. One common interpretation of capacity management is described in the [[ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)|ITIL framework]]. ITIL version 3 views capacity management as comprising three sub-processes: business capacity management, service capacity management, and component capacity management (known as resource capacity management in ITIL version2).<ref>Capacity Management Defition [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_management Wikipedia]</ref> |
Revision as of 13:37, 15 January 2021
Wikipedia defines Capacity management as a process used to manage information technology (IT). Its primary goal is to ensure that IT resources are right-sized to meet current and future business requirements in a cost-effective manner. One common interpretation of capacity management is described in the ITIL framework. ITIL version 3 views capacity management as comprising three sub-processes: business capacity management, service capacity management, and component capacity management (known as resource capacity management in ITIL version2).[1]
Functions and Benefits of capacity management:[2]
- Functions of capacity management
- Storage of capacity management data.
- Ensuring required service levels are met in all disciplines.
- With respect to resource utilization, analyzing, monitoring, and tuning the necessary modifications.
- Understanding the current infrastructure performance and analyze the future requirements.
- With input from other teams, project the annual growth plan for infrastructure.
- Managing the requirements for computing resources.
- Benefits of capacity management
- Improvement of performance, reduction of consumption due to fine tuning of applications and components of infrastructure.
- Improving the efficiency of provision capacity.
- Elimination of redundant work and ensuring consistent monitoring of infrastructure components.
- Improvement of IT cost per service unit components.
References
- ↑ Capacity Management Defition Wikipedia
- ↑ Functions and Benefits of capacity management Techopedia