Capacity Planning Goals

Capacity planners are driven by multiple, sometimes conflicting, goals:

HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor can help reduce the conflicts between the goals by allowing more informed decisions based on better information and more robust models. Effective use of Capacity Advisor can allow doubling resource utilization in many situations.

The most important step in accomplishing capacity planning goals is to clearly understand the goals and the relationship among them: optimizing response time may preclude most efficient resource utilization while optimizing resource utilization can compromise certain types of security. It is critical to understand the requirements as well as their priorities.