--- title: "Zetaly Resource Planning" slug: "zetaly-resource-planning" updated: 2023-11-09T10:20:02Z published: 2023-11-09T10:20:02Z canonical: "docs.zetaly.io/zetaly-resource-planning" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.zetaly.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 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** ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/zetaly-resource-planning-image-datu9i1r.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D) 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** ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/zetaly-resource-planning_data-loading-details.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D) Note: Depending on the amount of data you load, the SMF import can take a few minutes. For more details, see [SMF Reference](/v1/docs/smf-reference). After the import, you can visualize the data: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/ZRPGraph(1).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D) ### **Project** Create your project: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/zetaly-resource-planning_create-your-project.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D) ### **Simulation And Events** Create a simulation: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/zetaly-resource-planning_create-your-simulation.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D) You can add an event from the menu, or directly on the event panel : ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/zetaly-resource-planning_add-events.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D) ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/zetaly-resource-planning_add-events(1).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D) You can run the simulation of a CPC individually (with or without events): ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/image-1699278075008.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D) ### **You can explore your simulation by clicking on its name or any of its CPCs/LPARs, and looking through the [Charts](/v1/docs/charts) or [Synthesis board](/v1/docs/synthesis-board) tabs.** ![](https://cdn.document360.io/a74c9756-0e82-4b64-bffd-236c17c00cbd/Images/Documentation/ZRPGraph.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-02T23%3A53%3A57Z&se=2026-11-03T00%3A53%3A57Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=KuAdjVILuK8LYIl4q0xlGx33yU%2F2Kvu9uwTh8EOuqZU%3D)