RE: Performance tuning and capacity planning

Rob,

Capacity planning in general requires you to have an understanding of
your software inventory and take the steps necessary to ensure that your
hardware resources keep pace with growth in software.  If you are
implementing new software, then the capacity-planning function would need
to estimate the hardware requirements and include them in the
implementation.

Performance management would seem to concern those applications which are
experiencing throughput/response-time difficulties or an entire system
which has reached the capacity of some resource.  It would concern itself
with changing the software/OS environment to eliminate the capacity
problems.

While the two functions certainly overlap, they have a different focus.

Can you narrow your question in some way?  What specifically do you need
to accomplish?

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> What are some ways in which you design and tune applications for
> efficient resource consumption?, as part of capacity planning and
> performance management responsibilites.
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> Rob 'The Smooth Operator' Phillips