Patent attributes
This disclosure sets forth systems and methods for recommending candidate computing platforms for migration of data and data-related workload from an original computing platform. The systems and methods further describe determining recommendations of candidate computing platforms based on a comparison of key performance and utilization statistics of the original computing platform under a user-generated workload with candidate computing platforms under a synthetic workload. Key performance and utilization statistics may relate to CPU, memory, file I/O, network I/O, and database I/O operations on the respective computing platforms. The synthetic workload may be defined by parameters that simulate the key performance and utilization statistics of the original computing platform under the user-generated workload. Further, the synthetic workloads may be executed on individual candidate computing platforms to determine service level capabilities that are ultimately used to form the recommendation. The recommendation may be further based at least in part on price/performance ratios as defined by separate customer requirements.
