Cloud Capacity Management

CHAPTER 6

Capacity Planning

After gaining an understanding of the concepts of cloud computing and capacity management in prior chapters, this chapter focuses on capacity management as a process in the cloud. This chapter explains a pragmatic approach for implementing best practices in cloud capacity management that will help cloud service providers in designing and implementing capacity management processes in the most cost-effective fashion. Capacity management as a process has been described in Chapters 4 and 5, and should be adopted to ensure optimum utilization of capacity for cloud providers and consumers alike. The conventional IT service ...