Enterprises are under constant pressure to ensure that their systems meet the performance and response time requirements of the end user. They must support changing business volumes, changing usage patterns, system consolidation, as well as new applications. They need to meet service level objectives without over-provisioning or under-provisioning their systems.

IT Guru® Systems Planner enables capacity planning for servers and mainframes. It analyzes systems configurations and workloads, and predicts the impact of new application deployment, changes in workload profiles, and performance tuning. Leveraging its integration with leading third-party server performance monitoring tools, organizations can accurately plan server capacity to support growth, server consolidation, and application deployment.

Key Features

• Select from pre-defined vendor-specific server models that embed performance ratings from Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), or model a customized server configuration.
• Leverage the measured performance statistics from leading third-party server monitoring solutions.
• Apply advanced filtering algorithms to automatically and accurately characterize application workloads.
• Predict the performance impact of application architecture changes during the development lifecycle with the integrated Whiteboard.
• Model IBM® z/OS® mainframes, leveraging IBM® Resource Measurement Facility® (RMF®) measurements to evaluate the impact of increased workloads and the effectiveness of alternative solutions.
• Integrate with OPNET ACE and IT Guru® Network Planner for end-to-end capacity planning and performance management.

Investigate and analyze the profiles and characteristics of operational workloads. (click on the image to enlarge)

When virtualizing servers, predict the initial and future host capacity required to meet the performance SLOs of virtual guests. (click on the image to enlarge)