This document discusses cloud capacity management. It begins with an overview of Athene's 360 degree capacity management capabilities and why capacity management is needed to optimize costs, understand system status, and maintain service level agreements. It then defines cloud computing and discusses the various factors involved in cloud capacity management planning, including metrics, hybrid cloud models, and reporting examples. The document outlines Athene's key features for comprehensive capacity management across on-premise and cloud environments.

1. Cloud Capacity Management
Jamie Baker & Rich Fronheiser

2. Agenda
360o Capacity Management
Defining Cloud Computing
Capacity Management variables introduced by the Cloud
Planning your move to the Cloud
The Hybrid cloud model
Metrics to capture and Reporting Examples
Athene Key Features

3. 360O
Capacity Management
Athene enables your organization to take a proactive approach to
implementing effective capacity management across your entire
enterprise by identifying both over- and under- utilized resources,
whether on-premise or in the cloud, to provide a 360°view into your IT
services and infrastructure, helping lower costs and minimizing risk.

4. Why is Capacity Management needed?
Optimize and
provide Cost savings
Understand current
system status at a
glance
Maintain SLA
Stable IT service must be
provided

5. Capacity Management
Business Index
Component Resource
L.O.B
Storage size
Response
Availability
# of UsersRevenue
CPU Usage
Forecasting required capacity
according to business plan
Monitor, Analyze
Optimize, Upgrade, Increase
Maintain
SLA
Business Capacity
Predict future capacity requirements
from the business demand
Service Capacity
Manage, control and predict the
performance and capacity of operational
services.
Component Capacity
Manage, control and predict the
performance, utilization and
capacity of IT resources and
individual IT components.
Workload
Management
Service
Management
Resource
Management

6. Defining Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a type of Internet based computing that provides shared computer
processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for
enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing
resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can
be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

7. What do Cloud Providers Charge for?
Base IaaS Elements
• Compute
– CPU
– Memory
• Storage
• Operating System
• Storage/Disk I/O
• Network Egress
Additional Services
• Load balancers, F/W
• PaaS services
• Analytics, Bigdata, AI,
• Streaming Services, CDN
• IoT
• Management tools and
services
• 100s of other products

8. The Cloud Deployment Cycle

9. Cloud Planning
Fundamental Questions
• What do I have?
• Which Cloud?
• What should I buy?
• How much should I buy? As provisioned or utilized?
• What are my buying options?
• What will it cost?
• How does it compare across clouds and on-premise?

10. Hybrid Cloud - Capacity Management
Capacity Management Information System (CMIS)

11. Reporting Examples

12. Cloud Metric Capture
▪Cloud point of view, e.g. Cloud Watch
▪Guest point of view, e.g. operating system
▪ Cloud hosted metrics
▪ CPU
▪ IOPs
▪ Average transaction time
▪ Volume busy
▪ Data transfer rate
▪ On premise metrics
▪ CPU Utilization
▪ Storage (allocation, transfer rate)
▪ Network
▪ Number of transactions

13. AWS EC2 CPU Utilization %

14. AWS EC2 Memory Utilization %

15. AWS EFS I/O

16. AWS EC2 Network In/Out

17. • A single logical database for flexibility of
implementation, security, and management
• ServiceView – Providing business aligned, short,
medium, and long-term views, with days to live
reporting
• Integrator – extract, transform and load time-
series metrics
• Component, Service, Business, Finance & Custom
• Quick and easy analytics by service or lines of
business or infrastructure component
• Configurable to meet your data capture,
management, and reporting needs
Athene - Key Features
The world’s most scalable capacity management
software for physical and virtual environments.
• Brings metrics from across the enterprise to
one place
• 360° view of your service and infrastructure
• The most cost-effective product in its class

18. • Provisioned and maintained hardware
• Secure transfer of data
• Ongoing management of historical data
• Syncsort-provided reports, analyses, and models
available via PS / Managed Services
Athene Cloud - Key Features
• Enables a world-class Capacity Management
process while avoiding the maintenance of
software, databases, and the amount of data
• Organizations can augment staff or expertise
by partnering with Syncsort PS – create a
Managed Service that will help them take
advantage of the benefits of Capacity
Management without having to increase the
size or experience of staffs

19. Why Athene
Less Complexity
Capture and store data from the
entire infrastructure; automate
reporting and alerting; no detailed
system expertise required
Clearer Capacity Information
Identify existing and potential
capacity and performance threats;
prepares and visualizes key data for
time-to-live and bottleneck analysis
Healthier IT Operations
Near real-time alerts identify
problems in all key environments
View latency, transactions per
second, exceptions, etc.
Effective Incident Resolution
Management
Near real-time views to identify real or
potential failures earlier; view detailed
data to support triage repair or
prevention
Higher Operational Efficiency
Enhanced process correlation across
systems; Staff resolves problems faster;
“do more with less”
Eliminate Your Infrastructure
“Blind-Spots”
Get a complete view of Capacity and
Performance – technical, business,
financial – across the enterprise

20. Questions and Answers