Zetaly Resource Planning

  • Updated on Nov 9, 2023
  • Published on Apr 8, 2022
  • 1 minute(s) read
  • Alexandre BATARD
  • PG
  • Guilhem PREVOT
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Presentation

The overall aim of capacity planning is to ensure that the ever-changing nature of a company’s IT infrastructure can handle the constantly evolving nature of the company’s needs for that infrastructure.

The need is three-fold:

  • Input business, economical or technical change hypotheses
  • Simulate activity projections to determine future capacity needs
  • Get hardware, urbanism & budget plan

Capacity planning benefits include:

  • The potential to defer expenditure, realizing the difference in cost between panicked buying and planned buying
  • The minimizing of application risks and the risks associated with application sizing
  • The reduction or elimination of the resource expenditures needed for emergency capacity expansions

Current limitations

  • No comparison between before/after an event is added
  • No events related to soft capping (regression from CCPT)

    System requirement : for large simulations, RAM is used a lot (≈ 0.35MB/ReportClass/Day, with 50 ReportClass over a 1 year simulation, you will need about 6GB of ram).

ZRP Process

Data loading:

  • Initialize data in ZRP from the ZETALY database
  • This data will become available for every project

Project creation:

  • Creation of a new project with a custom name
  • Selection of resources to include: CPCs, LPARs
  • Selection of the reference period in the previously initialized data

New simulation:

  • Definition of the name & projection period (1 month in the future, 1 year, 3 years...)

Add events:

  • List of available events: 
    • Act./Deactivate CPC
    • Act./Deactivate LPAR
    • Act./Deactivate report class
    • Move report class in time
    • Move report class on another LPAR/CPC
    • Increase report class activity - at a specific time & date or an increase over a period of time

Run simulation:

  • Calculate future activity from added events
  • Visualize simulation results CPC by CPC or LPAR by LPAR

Data Loading Details

Note: Depending on the amount of data you load, the SMF import can take a few minutes. For more details, see SMF Reference.

After the import, you can visualize the data:

Project

Create your project:

Simulation And Events

Create a simulation:

You can add an event from the menu, or directly on the event panel :

You can run the simulation of a CPC individually (with or without events): 

You can explore your simulation by clicking on its name or any of its CPCs/LPARs, and looking through the Charts or Synthesis board tabs.