Information Technology and Communications

Building Data Centre Capacity Management Strategies

An applied course in data centre capacity management built around the decisions practitioners actually face.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Building Data Centre Capacity Management Strategies
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Security and delivery speed are traded against each other in data centre capacity management whether or not anyone says so. Most outages involving capacity management are triggered by a change somebody considered routine. The programme works equally well for those formalising the technology and systems delivery capability for the first time and those improving an existing approach. They acquire practical criteria for judging when data centre capacity management is working and when it is only appearing to. Plans for the technology and systems delivery discipline often fail at the handover point between functions. Organisations that document capacity management properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about data centre capacity management in their own setting. The course gives participants a defensible structure for capacity management and the judgement to adapt it. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this aspect of technology and systems delivery ready to put in front of a decision maker.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Communicate the purpose of data centre capacity management to those who have to comply with it.

  • Test capacity management under realistic load before it meets real load.

  • Distinguish the parts of data centre capacity management that must be standardised from those that require judgement.

  • Design the architecture of capacity management around its failure modes, not only its happy path.

  • Assess and manage third-party and cloud dependencies in data centre capacity management.

  • Build a register of the risks attaching to capacity management and keep it current.

  • Document data centre capacity management to the level a new engineer could operate it.

Who Should Attend

  • Analysts producing the data on which decisions about data centre capacity management rest.

  • Solution architects designing capacity management.

  • Managers with direct responsibility for data centre capacity management within the technical platform.

  • Network and communications engineers supporting capacity management.

  • Quality and test engineers verifying data centre capacity management.

  • Infrastructure and platform engineers operating capacity management.

Course Modules

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01

Data centre capacity management: requirements, targets and service levels

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Retiring the legacy part of data centre capacity management

  • Run a load test on data centre capacity management at expected peak plus a margin.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in capacity management.
  • Record the technical debt in data centre capacity management and schedule repayment.
  • Plan the decommissioning of the legacy component capacity management replaces.

Session 2Comparing capacity management with recognised practice

  • Verify six months later that changes to data centre capacity management have held.
  • Identify the single points of failure in capacity management.
  • Configure alerting on data centre capacity management that reflects what users experience.
  • Benchmark the organisation's capacity management against comparable operations.
02

Capacity management: capacity, performance and load

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing capacity management when nothing has gone wrong

  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of data centre capacity management current.
  • Measure current load on capacity management and project it forward twelve months.
  • Set delivery and reliability indicators for data centre capacity management the team trusts.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether capacity management is improving.

Session 2Making releases of capacity management routine instead of risky

  • Set escalation thresholds for data centre capacity management that work out of hours.
  • Apply change control to capacity management including emergency changes.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to data centre capacity management.
  • Review access rights on capacity management and remove what is no longer needed.
03

Capacity management: build, pipeline and release discipline

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Proving the backup of capacity management by restoring it

  • Record what was learned when data centre capacity management did not go as planned.
  • Remove steps in capacity management that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to data centre capacity management will be introduced.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for capacity management.

Session 2Dependencies and supply chain risk in data centre capacity management

  • Confirm the support model and escalation path for data centre capacity management.
  • Draft the minimum viable technical standard for capacity management.
  • Restore a backup of data centre capacity management in a test environment and time it.
  • Estimate the resource capacity management requires to run as designed.
04

Capacity management: change control and rollback

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The decisions in capacity management that cannot be delegated

  • Test the failover for data centre capacity management rather than assuming it works.
  • Inventory third-party dependencies inside capacity management and their update status.
  • Confirm data retention and deletion rules applied within data centre capacity management.
  • Rank the weaknesses in capacity management by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.

Session 2Least privilege in capacity management without blocking the work

  • Review logging on data centre capacity management for coverage and retention.
  • Assess the exit route from any cloud or vendor dependency in capacity management.
  • Identify single points of dependency in data centre capacity management and reduce them.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in capacity management.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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