Re: Capacity Planning

That´s right, it is a Crystall Ball! That is probably why many Capacity Plans fails! I guess there is no scientific way to perform capacity plannnings, at least not for new applications and without some metrics.

Thanks

LSC On 2/23/06, Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> On 02/23/2006 08:14:28 AM, LiShan Cheng wrote:
> > Hi Ranko
> >
> > What if the application is new? For example you have to migrate a
> Peoplesoft
> > CRM to Siebel can you take Peoplesoft metrics and use that in Siebel?
> >
> > Or you are putting a new fresh application.
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> LiShan, capacity plan is a crystal ball usually required by damagement.
> If it is pretty enough and is web based, it doesn't necessarily have to
> have anything in common with reality and accuracy. Capacity plan is like
> light saber model: your can be prettier then mine, but neither will work.
> The answer to the question "how much disk will we be using in 6 months"
> is still: "I have no clue", especially if the application is new to your
> system. Fortunately, there is a great tool called "Oracle Application
> Express"
> which, in combination with good, old DBMS_JOB can do the trick. You can
> schedule monthly space allocation collection and then present a bar graph
> on the intranet. You can even allow the damagement to select a month in
> the future for which it wants to see allocation. It's called "Futurama".
> May the farce be with you.
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> Mladen Gogala
> http://www.mgogala.com
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