capacity planning

determining the resource requirements of a given set of business services to ensure that sufficient resources are made available before the services are implemented.

The operation of calculating how many resources a physical server will need for hosting a certain amount of virtual machines. It's a critical task to be achieved at very beginning of any virtualization project.

The process of determining which one of the 12 million potential configuration options on AWS a user should choose to optimize operations. Because each user has different needs, it is important to take into account how much of each offering, CPU or memory, for instance, one needs in the planning process.