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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2004
Ludmila Cherkasova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wenting Tang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sharad Singhal, Belmont, CA (US);
Ludmila Cherkasova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wenting Tang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sharad Singhal, Belmont, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
According to at least one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, into a capacity planning system, workload information representing an expected workload of client accesses of streaming media files from a site. The method further comprises receiving, into the capacity planning system, at least one service parameter that defines a desired service characteristic to be provided by a media server configuration under the expected workload. The method further comprises determining, by the capacity planning system, for at least one server configuration, how many servers of the at least one server configuration to be included at the site for supporting the expected workload in compliance with the at least one service parameter.