Probability and Statistics Refresher

File size=410KB. Contents: Collection of tutorials on statistics, probability, metrics, regression, data collection and related topics to refresh skills and knowledge needed to perform capacity planning and performance management.

Basic Techniques

File size=365KB. Contents: Additional materials to to get up-to-speed. Topics include: Queuing theory, network bandwidth, client/server response time factors and a metrics primer. Augments Probability and Statistics Refresher above.

Related Techniques

File size=220KB. Contents: Chart selection tutorial by Mike Tarrani, two PowerPoint presentations on statistical process control, and a paper on measurement error analysis. These topics are for intermediate-to-advanced practitioners of performance management and capacity planning.

Capacity Planning

File size=439KB. Contents: Collection of documents covering all major aspects of capacity planning.

Performance Modeling

File size=380KB. Contents: Collection of documents covering most aspects of generic performance modeling.

Web and E-commerce Performance

File size=578KB. Contents: Documents on various topics of web and e-commerce performance.

Performance and Capacity Planning Worksheets

File size=296KB. Contents: Collection of MS Excel spreadsheets on various aspects of performance and capacity planning. These spreadsheets are from Scaling for E-Business and Capacity Planning for Web Performance, both by Daniel A. Menasc� and Virgilio A. F. Almeida .

Workload Management

File size=325KB. Contents: Two papers on workload management. See also Resource Management, a Sun Blueprints Series book. Although this book focuses on Solaris, it is also applicable to other environments.

Availability

File size=363KB. Contents: Related to performance and capacity. Contains a PowerPoint Presentation on Solaris availability that's applicable to most UNIX environments, an IT Availability checklist in MS Word format and Adobe Acrobat document on high availability.

Oracle Performance Tuning

File size=2.4MB. Contents: Four PowerPoint presentations on Oracle performance tuning and performance tips. Some of the presentations are for advanced DBAs.

Database Sizing Worksheets

File size=198KB. Contents: Worksheet for sizing Oracle databases. Specific to the Designer 2000 environment.

Agent-Based E-Commerce Architectures

File size=179KB. Contents: Adobe Acrobat paper on agent-based architectures. Contains some capacity and performance tips.

Testing Basics

File size=669KB. Contents: Adobe Acrobat and PowerPoint documents on testing basics. Although marginally related to performance and capacity, this material is part of a capacity planner's or performance manager's foundation knowledge.

Reuse Economics

File size=883KB. Contents: Reuse modeling document in MS Word format and associated worksheets in MS Excel format. Only peripherally related to capacity and performance, and is included as a bonus file.