A system and method for projecting capacity of computer resources for a plurality
of processing systems in a processing environment and for adjusting workload among
said systems to improve resource utilization. An administrative processor determines
the projected usage of computer resources for a plurality of computer systems in
a processing environment by representing the capacity of each of the plurality
of computer systems in a normalized unit and by sorting the capacities of the computer
systems by the normalized or standardized units. The standardized unit, optimally
time as measured as the life expectancy of each different resource of the computer
system, is used for the N-axes of the N-dimensional space called a capacity space.
Each computer system is mapped to a point in the capacity space, which normalizes
configuration and capacity differences between systems by expressing the usage
of all resources in the units of time. Once the normalized values have been defined
and sorted, the administrative processor can make adjustments to the workload among
the plurality of processing systems to improve the utilization of the capacity
of the greatest number of processing systems in the processing environment.
