Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning By Example

About this book

Practical systems planning performance availability security and moreComputing systems must meet increasingly strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for performance availability security and maintainability. To achieve these goals designers analysts and capacity planners need a far more thorough understanding of QoS issues and the implications of their decisions. Now three leading experts present a complete application-driven framework for understanding and estimating performance. Youll learn exactly how to map real-life systems to accurate performance models and use those models to make better decisions--both up front and throughout the entire system lifecycle. Coverage State-of-the-art quantitative analysis techniques supported by extensive numerical examples and exercisesQoS issues in requirements analysis specification design development testing deployment operation and system evolution Specific scenarios including e-Business and database services servers clusters and data centersTechniques for identifying potential congestion at both software and hardware levelsPerformance Engineering concepts and toolsDetailed solution techniques including exact and approximate MVA and Markov ChainsModeling of software contention fork-and-join service rate variability and priorityAbout the Web SiteThe accompanying Web site provides companion Excel workbooks that implement many of the books algorithms and numerical examples.