Re: Capacity Planning on As400

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't spend the money yet - go the Performance Management site at
<http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/perfmgmt/resource.htm>,

then click on Sizing Tools at
<http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/perfmgmt/sizing.htm>,

then on IBM eServer Workload Estimator at
<http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/support/estimator>

Lots of tutorials there on using the tool - and it's free.

And the Performance Management site is very cool for the other stuff there.

HTH
Vern

At 05:45 PM 6/9/2005, you wrote:

> In my Organization we are running couple of 840's , 810's etc and it has
> come time to upgrade them to newer i5 models
>
> What I am looking is a tool to do capacity planning on the Series
>
> I have heard of a tool called Performance Navigator from
> (http://www.mpginc.com/ ) which seems to do a good work and also have heard
> that BMC has a tool called Predict.  Is there any other tool that can be
> used effectively for Capacity planning ?
>
> If anyone has used Performance Navigator , I would like to know their
> experience as how accurate it was and similar for BMC Predict tool
>
> One of the differences which I had seen was that BMC Predict tool uses Queue
> Depth for modeling while Performance Navigator does not. Performance
> Navigator  takes trending data and growth into account for Doing The
> analysis
>
> Any Help / information would be appreciated
>
> Thks in advance
>
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