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.
