Computer data processing capacity planning using dependency relationships from a configuration management database

摘要

The invention discloses a computer data processing capacity planning system that utilizes known workload planning information along with hardware and/or software configuration information from the actual operating environment to accurately estimate the production system capacity available for use in carrying out one or more processing task(s).

主权项

1. A computer system, comprising:
a configuration management database (CMDB), comprising one or more parameters relating to any software configuration running on available hardware that is managed by the CMDB and comprising neighborhood information that documents any managed system capacity reductions due to one of hardware and software failures and un-configured components of other systems with an operating environment of the CMDB, where the CMDB comprises a processor configured to output event notifications of configuration changes related to any of the software configurations running on the variable hardware that is managed by the CMDB and the neighborhood information; a deployed-system workload modeling program that operates, in response to directly receiving the event notifications of configuration changes from the CMDB, to use one or more inputs related to the configuration changes and the neighborhood information received from the CMDB to formulate an estimate of system data processing capacity for the software configuration running on the available hardware at a point in time during a deployment phase of at least one of the software configurations; and where output configuration parameters are specified for allocating performance of planned software processing task to assigned system hardware.