Baselines (Lab)

What is a baseline?

We can only know if a cloud solution is performing up to our needs is to know our needs, and that is where baselines come into play. A baseline is a collection of data providing performance-related trend analysis. It lets us see what normal operations look like.

The parameters we need to focus on while determining the efficiency of a cloud solution and evaluating the baseline are as follows:

Capacity

The system’s capacity refers to the ability of a system to meet a given demand at a given level.

• CPU utilization is an essential factor to consider. Can it handle the processing requests that come in?
• Network utilization - Will it meet the demand for data transfer that is taking place.
• Storage utilization - Is there enough room to store all the data and information that needs to be stored?
• Access times - There are working hours and non-working hours. What is the working hours window of time? Then there are non-work hours, which are the opposite. So the hours we are not working are defined de facto by knowing the working

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