Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning By Example
Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning By Example
ISBN: 0130906735
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
- Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning by Example
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Goal, Theme, and Approach
- Part I: The Practice of Performance Engineering
- Chapter 1. Computer System Lifecycle
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 QoS in IT Systems
- 1.3 System Life Cycle
- 1.4 A Reference Model for IT Systems
- 1.5 Concluding Remarks
- 1.6 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2. From Systems to Descriptive Models
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Modeling
- 2.3 A Simple Database Server Example
- 2.4 The Database Server Example: Multiple Classes
- 2.5 The Database Server Example: Open and Closed Classes
- 2.6 The Database Server Example: a Mixed Model
- 2.7 The Database Server Example: Types of Resources
- 2.8 The Database Server Example: Blocking
- 2.9 The Database Server Example: Software Contention
- 2.10 Database Example: Simultaneous Resource Possession
- 2.11 Database Example: Class Switching
- 2.12 Database Example: Queuing Disciplines
- 2.13 QN Models
- 2.14 Concluding Remarks
- 2.15 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3. Quantifying Performance Models
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Basic Performance Results
- 3.3 Bounds on Performance
- 3.4 Using QN Models
- 3.5 Concluding Remarks
- 3.6 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 4. Performance Engineering Methodology
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Performance Engineering
- 4.3 Motivating Example
- 4.4 A Model-based Methodology
- 4.5 Workload Model
- 4.6 Performance Models
- 4.7 Specifying Performance Objectives
- 4.8 Concluding Remarks
- 4.9 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5. Case Study I: A Database Service
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Database Service Example
- 5.3 Building a Performance Model
- 5.4 Using the Model
- 5.5 Monitoring Tools
- 5.6 Measurements Techniques
- 5.7 Obtaining Input Parameters
- 5.8 Concluding Remarks
- 5.9 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 6. Case Study II: A Web Server
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 The Web Server
- 6.3 Preliminary Analysis of the Workload
- 6.4 Building a Performance Model
- 6.5 Using the Model
- 6.6 Secure Downloads
- 6.7 Experimental Comparison of Two Servers
- 6.8 Concluding Remarks
- 6.9 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 7. Case Study III: A Data Center
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The Data Center
- 7.3 Building a Model
- 7.4 Using the Model
- 7.5 Another Modeling Approach
- 7.6 A Cost Analysis
- 7.7 Concluding Remarks
- 7.8 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8. Case Study IV: An E-Business Service
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The E-Business Service
- 8.3 The E-Business Workload
- 8.4 Building a Performance Model
- 8.5 Using the Performance Model
- 8.6 Adding More Servers
- 8.7 Concluding Remarks
- 8.8 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 9. Case Study V: A Help-Desk Service
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 The Help Desk Service
- 9.3 A Performance Model
- 9.4 Techniques for SPE
- 9.5 Concluding Remarks
- 9.6 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Part II: The Theory of Performance Engineering
- Chapter 10. Markov Models
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Modeling Context
- 10.3 Motivating Examples
- 10.4 Model Construction
- 10.5 Model Solution
- 10.6 Model Interpretation
- 10.7 Model Assumptions and Limitations
- 10.8 Generalized Birth-Death Models
- 10.9 Beyond the Basics
- 10.10 Chapter Summary
- 10.11 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 11. Single Queue Systems
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Single Queue Single Server Systems
- 11.3 The MM1 Queue
- 11.4 The MG1 Queue
- 11.5 MG1 with Vacations
- 11.6 MG1 with Priorities
- 11.7 Approximation Results
- 11.8 Concluding Remarks
- 11.9 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 12. Single Class MVA
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 MVA Development
- 12.3 The MVA Algorithm
- 12.4 Balanced Systems
- 12.5 MVA Extensions and Limitations
- 12.6 Chapter Summary
- 12.7 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 13. Queuing Models with Multiple Classes
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 The Need for Multiple-Class Models
- 13.3 Simple Two-Class Model
- 13.4 Notation and Assumptions
- 13.5 Closed Models
- 13.6 Open Models
- 13.7 Mixed Models
- 13.8 Concluding Remarks
- 13.9 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 14. Queuing Models with Load Dependent Devices
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Motivating Example
- 14.3 Single Class Models with LD Devices
- 14.4 Multiclass Closed Models with LD Devices
- 14.5 Multiclass Open Models with LD Devices
- 14.6 Flow-Equivalent Server Method
- 14.7 Concluding Remarks
- 14.8 Exercises
- Bibliography
- Chapter 15. Non Product-Form Queuing Models
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Modeling High Service Time Variability
- 15.3 Modeling Blocking Effects
- 15.4 Modeling Priority Scheduling
- 15.5 Modeling Software Contention
- 15.6 Modeling ForkJoin Queuing Networks
- 15.7 Concluding Remarks
- 15.8 Exercises
- Bibliography
Performance by Design: Computer Capacity Planning By Example
ISBN: 0130906735
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 166
Pages: 166
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