Hyperformix - Capacity Manager

Business stakeholders demand application performance, and IT executives need to deliver service while maintaining balance between performance, cost and risk. Hyperformix Capacity Manager allows you to guarantee service levels to the business and make the right IT investment decisions with confidence.

IT Investment Decision Support

Capacity Manager provides insight into the right mix of infrastructure, and delivers the information through compelling, engaging executive dashboards. Compare hardware vendors and configurations with ease. Determine which infrastructure mix meets service levels at the best cost. Plan and size traditional or virtualized environments, including application environments such as SAP. Keep risk to a minimum by identifying performance bottlenecks early, and budgeting to correct them. Capacity Manager delivers insight so you can make informed business decisions.

Identify Opportunities for Consolidation and Cost Mitigation

Gartner reports that most IT shops only use 18-20% of their CPU capacity. Capacity Manager will help you identify opportunities for consolidation or virtualization and the potential savings. Cascading change analysis represents the cumulative impact of inevitable change to your environments. You'll know how applications will behave after the changes and how to plan and time your cap-ex budgets to maintain service levels.

Turn Performance Data into Insight

Performance monitoring data provides value in that it tells you that a problem is happening right now. However, that data has longer term value when used to model future performance. The value in using the data you already collect is that you can quickly create an accurate simulation of your applications and infrastructure, and make virtual changes to it, without risk to your production systems. With accuracy at 90% or greater, you'll have all the insight you need to make informed IT investment decisions.

Capacity Manager uses Hyperformix Data Manager's capacity database as its data source for normalized performance data across heterogeneous data sources.

Insight from Scenarios

Once your model is created, there are virtually limitless opportunities to apply "what-if" scenarios to it. If you want to know the cost and performance implications of changing hardware vendors, consolidating servers, increasing workload, or the cumulative impact of their successive change, the integrated hardware model library of 2500+ components helps you easily derive these insights. Capacity Manager identifies potential performance bottlenecks before they occur, allowing you to plan IT operations for the areas that require investment.

Executive Reporting

Once your model is created, you need to be able to accurately convey the results to your stakeholders in business terms. Capacity Manager comes with a built-in collection of executive and operational reports that align infrastructure and application details to cost values. This facilitates communication with application owners and stakeholders, empowering them to make good IT investment decisions.

A reporting dashboard from Capacity Manager

Open Reporting Framework

Hyperformix supports an open reporting framework. All modeling related results are available in an open XML structure for use by your reporting solution of choice. Any report writing software that supports XML data sources can obtain modeling results for inclusion in reports. Hyperformix provides additional out-of-box integration with Crystal Reports for executive and custom report capabilities.

Capacity Manager provides IT investment decision support for:

Meeting end-user response time and service level goals of the business
Selecting the best cost / performance mix for new servers or components
Identifying servers and workloads that can safely be consolidated
Designing the optimal architecture to support business growth

Strategic Insight

Capacity Manager supports ongoing planning to ensure your landscape will perform in the face of constant change.