Questions tagged [capacity-planning]

Capacity planning is the science and art of estimating the space, computer hardware, software and connection infrastructure resources that will be needed over some future period of time.

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Estimate when a filesystem will be full

Background I'm managing about 50 CentOS 5.6 Linux servers in my workplace with some critical filesystems that store weekly backups of applications, databases and user workplace files. Problem Last ...
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On a web server with very high load, what determines which requests connect?

Glastonbury tickets went on sale this morning and I didn't even get through to a holding page despite having multiple tabs open with their own cookies and refreshing like crazy. I got 'This webpage is ...
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VMware vSphere VM at 100% workload CPU when real load average is near 0

I'm using VMware vSphere 5.5 on an ESXi 5.5 Host to host a small private web site. Host server is an HP ProLiant 380 DL with 50 GB Ram, 1 TB SSD storage, 2 Intel Xeon 5550 CPU. There are 10 running ...
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gradual increase in capacity of a virtual hdd

Im very new in using ESXI/vSphere and im planning to create an FTP server and i just needed to know some few basic things. How do i gradually increase the disk capacity in a virtualize environment or ...
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Amazon Web Service monitoring

I have deployed a web app on an AWS server. I have following questions: Monitoring my websphere app server status capacity monitoring? uptime thru Amazon CloudWatch metrics? Load balancing ...
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How can I make a server or PC use the most electrical power it is ever likely to?

I have several servers connected to a UPS. I would like to try and get those servers to draw the most power they are likely to as a load test of the UPS. What is the best way to cause a server or PC ...
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