Cloud Capacity Management

Cloud Capacity Management helps readers in understanding what the cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS are, how they relate to capacity planning and management and which stakeholders are involved in delivering value in the cloud value chain. It explains the role of capacity management for a creator, aggregator, and consumer of cloud services and how to provision for it in a 'pay as you use model'.

This involves a high level of abstraction and virtualization to facilitate rapid and on demand provisioning of services. The conventional IT service models take a traditional approach when planning for service capacity to provide optimum services levels which has huge cost implications for service providers.

This book addresses the gap areas between traditional capacity management practices and cloud service models. It also showcases capacity management process design and implementation in a cloud computing domain using ITSM best practices. This book is a blend of ITSM best practices and infrastructure capacity planning and optimization implementation in various cloud scenarios.

Cloud Capacity Management addresses the basics of cloud computing, its various models, and their impact on capacity planning. This book also highlights the infrastructure capacity management implementation process in a cloud environment showcasing inherent capabilities of tool sets available and the various techniques for capacity planning and performance management. Techniques like dynamic resource scheduling, scaling, load balancing, and clustering etc are explained for implementing capacity management.

What you’ll learn

• Cloud computing and virtualization basics and models
• Cloud service delivery models and service providers value chain explained in depth
• A practical approach for capacity planning in cloud environments
• Capacity management implementation procedures and guidelines specifically designed for cloud environments

Who this book is for

This book would be of help to technical consultants involved in virtualization, capacity managers, capacity analysts, cloud architects, ITIL consultants, practitioners, cloud developers and cloud consultants.

Service level managers, technical managers, IT managers, process analyst and process consultants may also find this book helpful for guidance on the protocols involved.

About the Authors

Navin Sabharwal is the DGM Service Delivery and Leads the Automation and Cloud Computing Delivery in HCL Technologies ISD. He is currently leading the team for developing IPs and Solutions in the area of IT Service Management, Automation and Cloud Development and is the Architect for HCL Cloud Service offerings. He has extensive experience in all facets of Infrastructure Management and combines the Process, Tools and Development Experience to create valuable IPs in the space of Infrastructure Management. The Products in Reporting and Analytics, Enterprise Platform and Cloud Computing have got rave reviews from analysts and customers. Navin Sabharwal is a Masters in Computer Science and holds a PMP Certification from PMI.

Prashant Wali is working with HCL as Manager and holds B.Tech (IT)/MBA (IT) from Top Tier B School in India. He has accomplished experience across multiple areas such as ITSM processes (ITILv3), ITSM tools, Cloud Service Management, Process Transitioning, Maturity and Migration Assessments, IT Infrastructure Management & Service Delivery. He is primarily involved in creation of products and services in the area of Cloud Computing, IT service management frameworks and maturity assessment models using ITSM best practices and tools. His area of expertise include IT Infrastructure Management, Capacity Planning, Cloud Lifecycle Management, Infrastructure Monitoring, Tool Automation, Statistical Analysis, ITILv3 Process design, Implementation and KPI Analysis.