Zetaly Resource Planning

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.