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| Cloud Capacity Planning Factors | Details |
| Data Center | Available capacity |
| Capacity | Consumed Capacity? Present free Capacity? Capacity forecast for new requests? |
| Return On Investment | How much |
The cloud capacity planning easier since adding / removing capacity is much easier.
Steps for Cloud Capacity Planning
| S.No | Steps | Concerns with |
| 1 | Service Level Agreements | Uptime, downtime, back-up and recovery, availability |
| 2 | Monitor Applications Utilization | Day / Week / Month/ Year/ Season have spikes based on ram and CPUs |
| 3 | Review Workload Analytics | Why, what and when works demands changes are observed using work analytics. |
| 4 | Decide what to put in the Cloud after migrating | Memory requirement, on-premises, IasS, PasS, SasS Public cloud vs. private cloud, what applications to deploy, Number of servers and systems. |
| 5 | Evaluate Data Management Policies. | Creation, Access, Retention, Archiving and Deletion of data. |
| 6 | Pick Size of Cloud instances | Size of Cloud instances for your needs. Cloud migration with large bills called cloud shock. |
| 7 | Plan for Worst | Applications, systems, and servers, cost, downtime and uptime, disaster recovery plan |
| 8 | Meet Business Requirements | Infrastructure needs, (cost, response times, availability, etc.) user needs |
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