#capacity-planning

Solution: Open source DCIM stack? #it #answer #dev

Open source DCIM stack?

Our 500-server data center is growing quickly and my manager has started investigating using a specialized Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) package to help manage constraints.

DCIM software aims to do everything: capacity planning, asset, config, change management, power & cooling monitoring, network monitoring and alarms. Some of the products she is looking…

Fix: Load-testing tools for Active Directory? #it #fix #programming

Load-testing tools for Active Directory?

Are there any tools out there that can torture-test and measure AD performance? We’re looking at a fairly major expansion of our environment (think tens of thousands of computers) that will throw lots of transactions at our AD environment.

We suspect that we need to add hardware to our core network, but I don’t want to buy hardware blindly and either…

How-to: vSphere education – What are the downsides of configuring VMs with *too* much RAM? #answer #dev #programming

vSphere education – What are the downsides of configuring VMs with *too* much RAM?

VMware memory management seems to be a tricky balancing act. With cluster RAM, Resource Pools, VMware’s management techniques (TPS, ballooning, host swapping), in-guest RAM utilization, swapping, reservations, shares and limits, there are a lot of variables.

I’m in a situation where clients are using dedicated…

How to: How do you do load testing and capacity planning for databases? #programming #it #dev

How do you do load testing and capacity planning for databases?

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How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites?

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Solution: When is the right time to add a separate database server, add more web servers? #fix #solution #it

When is the right time to add a separate database server, add more web servers?

Usually web projects start small, everything is on the one server. But if site becomes popular one server won’t be enough. So, since I don’t have any experience in this, I’d like to get an idea of: 1. what kind of load means that I need to move my MySQL DB to a separate server and how to measure this load? 2. what…

Resolved: MongoDB and datasets that don't fit in RAM no matter how hard you shove #development #answer #programming

MongoDB and datasets that don’t fit in RAM no matter how hard you shove

This is very system dependent, but chances are near certain we’ll scale past some arbitrary cliff and get into Real Trouble. I’m curious what kind of rules-of-thumb exist for a good RAM to Disk-space ratio. We’re planning our next round of systems, and need to make some choices regarding RAM, SSDs, and how much of each the…

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I have a question regarding capacity planning. Can the Server Fault community please help with the following:

What kind of server do I need to handle some number of

How-to: How do you do load testing and capacity planning for web sites? #answer #fix #dev

How do you do load testing and capacity planning for web sites?

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Can you help me with my capacity planning?

How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Databases?

What are some recommended tools and methods of capacity planning for web sites and web-applications?

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