Methods and systems to manage capacity planning in a data center

A system to determine a capacity-forecast model in a data center, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more data-storage devices;
• and
• machine-readable instructions stored in the one or more data-storage devices that when executed using the one or more processors controls the system to carry out
• collecting capacity metric data and business metric data over a time period;
• calculating average capacity metric value in each time window of the time period with a burst spike of capacity metric data;
• calculating average business metric data in the time windows;
• and
• calculating a capacity-forecast model based on the average capacity metric data and average business metric data.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with machine-readable instructions that implement a method carried out by one or more processors of a computer system to perform the operations of

• collecting capacity metric data and business metric data over a time period;
• calculating average capacity metric value in each time window of the time period with a burst spike of capacity metric data;
• calculating average business metric data in the time windows;
• and
• calculating a capacity-forecast model based on the average capacity metric data and average business metric data.