The CA MICS Capacity Planner addresses two key areas in capacity planning: workload characterization and workload forecasting. With the CA MICS Capacity Planner, you are able to perform key capacity planning studies and produce related reports using data that is maintained in the CA MICS database. The CA MICS Capacity Planner Guide discusses analytic techniques and uses tutorials, reports, and case studies to explain workload characterization and workload forecasting. Workload characterization helps you establish a workload baseline, based on current work activities, that will make future analyses more meaningful. Workload characterization uses data directly from the CA MICS database. Workload forecasting helps you estimate growth in existing and new applications, and track and revise these estimates. Workload forecasting uses data from a special capacity planning database built using data elements that you select from the CA MICS database. In addition to providing helpful forecasting techniques, the CA MICS Capacity Planner enables you to produce presentation graphics using the information you obtain. You can then develop a capacity planning strategy that is based on both past history and projections of future resource demand. The CA MICS Capacity Planner enables you to maintain capacity history and projections information in both private and shared files. The private files are accessible only to the planner who defines and maintains the data. This data are useful if you perform capacity planning functions alone, if you are developing ad hoc analyses, or if you are in the early phases of planning and are making frequent changes. The shared files are useful if you share the capacity planning responsibilities among several planners and each may need to develop forecasts based on one set of shared files.
This section contains the following topics:
1.1 Primary Areas of Application
1.2 Capacity Planning Database
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