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H2 Capacity planning starts with data center planning
It’s a fact that capacity management hasn’t inherently changed over the past 20 years. Because what more do you need than floor space, electricity, security, and formulas to calculate consumption and infrastructure needs? However, what has changed are the modern challenges that data center providers are facing today. As data center growth is exploding, a classic adage applies: plan the work, then work the plan.
Yet the last two decades have seen many continue to adhere to classic capacity management strategies and in turn struggle with floods of challenges that they didn’t plan for.
H3 Importance of what-if scenarios
It’s clear that proper capacity planning comes from accumulated metered power, cooling, space usage, and other data combined with precise analytical methods. However, one must account for possible abnormalities (deviations from short-term plans). These abnormalities are caused by signing contracts with large and super-large customers but also outside agents such as natural disasters, pandemics, etc.
All these events cause disruption of the planning process, and the possibility of such “irregular” events must be taken into account. The way to do this is to conduct what-if analysis for different reasonable scenarios link text here All these events cause disruption of the planning process, and the possibility of such “irregular” events must be taken into account. The way to do this is to conduct what-if analysis for different reasonable scenarios.
H3 Importance of what-if scenarios
Imagine a data center that’s in the planning stage or one already built but growing fast while lacking a defined capacity management plan. It’s definitely a balancing act to grow while minimizing capacity investments and fulfilling clients’ needs without going into a “red zone” where availability exceeds the actual need. Let’s look at a few examples:
Yet, there’s the unknown future that can bring ANYTHING, so get creative and start thinking about everything that could affect your clients and their services. Since you can’t simply look into a crystal ball to know what the future holds, here are some topics to consider before building a data center and to include in a capacity management plan:
- Experience UMBOSS’s single pane of glass view and user interface.
- See UMBOSS’s many modules in action and how the umbrella concept incorporates them all.
- Review license models, discuss how we deploy the solution, and how we do support and maintenance.
Benefits of unified performance management:
- Single performance management across different domains
- Unified performance analysis of network and IT performance
- End-to-end visibility and reporting
- Preemptive reaction to forthcoming network or computing issues
- Higher availability of network, IT systems and services
- Faster troubleshooting with relevant data
H4 DCIM tools that lighten the workload and strengthen capacity planning management
From the above discussion, it’s evident that without precise and clear data capacity planning is tough work, no doubt about it. The good news is that other engineers have met these problems before and have created great software tools called Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM).
DCIM must be both a documentation and planning tool that executes planning by combining historic data and trend inputs provided by data center planners (the business).
- Experience UMBOSS’s single pane of glass view and user interface.
- See UMBOSS’s many modules in action and how the umbrella concept incorporates them all.
- Review license models, discuss how we deploy the solution, and how we do support and maintenance.
