Chapter 12. Cloud Capacity Management

This chapter provides a detailed overview of how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capacity can be measured and managed. Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to understand the following:

• The basic challenges and requirements for managing capacity in an IaaS platform

• How to model and manage capacity

• The importance of demand management

• The role of the procurement process in cloud

Tetris and the Cloud

As discussed throughout this book, the cloud consumer views the cloud as an infinite set of resources that it can consume as required. This clearly is not the case from the provider’s point of view, nor is it a sustainable business model. So, the cloud provider (either an IT department or telco) ...

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