Capacity Planning for IT (BCS456B)

Capacity Planning for IT

Course Code BCS456B 
CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L: T:P: S) 1:0:0:0 
SEE Marks 50
Total Hours of Pedagogy 14 
Total Marks 100
Credits 01 
Exam Hours 01
Examination type (SEE) Theory (MCQ)

Module-1

Goals, Issues, and Processes: capacity planning, Quick and Dirty Math, Predicting When Your Systems Will Fail, Make Your System Stats Tell Stories, Buying Stuff: Procurement Is a Process, Performance and Capacity:

Two Different Animals, The Effects of Social Websites and Open APIs.

Setting Goals for Capacity: Different Kinds of Requirements and Measurements, Architecture Decisions.

Module-2

Measurement: Units of Capacity: Aspects of Capacity Tracking Tools, Applications of Monitoring.

Module-3

Measurement: API Usage and Its Effect on Capacity, Examples and Reality.

Predicting Trends: Riding Your Waves.

Module-4

Predicting Trends: Procurement, The Effects of Increasing Capacity, Long-Term Trends, Iteration and

Calibration.

Deployment: Automated Deployment Philosophies, Automated Installation Tools, Automated Configuration.

Module-5

Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Computing Resource Evolutions,

Mixed Definitions, Cloud Capacity, Use it or lose it (your wallet),Measuring the clouds, Cloud Case Studies,

Cloud Use Case: Anonymous Desktop Software Company.

Suggested Learning Resources:

Books

1. John Allspaw, The Art of Capacity Planning, 2008, O'Reilly

Web links and Video Lectures (e-Resources):

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0cD26CLBA0 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-hhfBXykec 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e4IohiFmZ8&t=63s 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj4ziswxupE 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW79ofC6Go 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pPlanX5wQY