Introduction to IT Guru Systems Planner
(2 days)
Prerequisites:
Basic familiarity with server systems and server data collection agents.
Course Description:
Through labs and lecture, this course presents a methodology for creating your server model, as
well as analyzing and characterizing data imported using one of the supported
collection tools. You will also learn how to perform server capacity and
consolidation studies, and study server virtualization and multi-tiered
application deployment.
Agenda:
- Methodologies for workload characterization and time period selection
- Analyzing complex systems
- Creating standalone server models to validate the server characterization
- Predicting performance under increased application load
- Predicting impact of server consolidation
- Predicting impact of upgrading server hardware
- Troubleshooting server models