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Capacity Planning for NonStop Servers

Capacity Planning for NonStop Servers is an important, yet often times overlooked task. The ability to predict future capacity requirements is not only essential to budgetary planning, but also to avoid capacity related errors that could cause outages, slow performance, and/or invalid results.

Our Capacity Planning service begins with a detailed analysis of your NonStop hardware configuration and related business requirements. Then a collection of statistics from the database, pathway, communications, tape management, and Operating System is used to produce a detailed written report is with charts graphs and lists highlighting the capacity trending in each subsystem and growth rates for each, enabling a plan for future growth.

Capacity Trending information may include…

System upgrade timeframe recommendations.
Memory usage and growth rates.
Disk storage percentage used and histogram estimates going forward.
Disk usage growth rates.
Fastest growing files, the relative growth rate, and failure timetable estimates.
Pathway linkage growth rates and timetable for require configuration changes.
Communication access rates, growth rate and percentage used.
Tape usage percentage, growth rate, and threshold.
Operating Systems disk space and memory usage, and estimated increases over time.