Under today's shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market
schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are seen by
management as inflating production schedules. In the face of relentless
pressure to get things done faster, this book facilitates rapid
forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of
available performance data and tools so that management insight is
expanded but production schedules are not. The book introduces such
concepts as an iterative cycle of improvement called "The Wheel of
Capacity Planning," and Virtual Load Testing, which provides a highly
cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.