What are the key details required for developing the workload model?

1. Understand the objective for workload model creation (performance testing or capacity planning)
2. Understand system objectives, application landscape and end users of the system
3. Understand the business drivers that impact the end user load on the system.
4. Identify the top critical use cases and navigation patterns
5. Identify the user load distribution level across use cases and its transactions. Workload characterization should focus on creating realistic load on all tiers.
6. Gather the average and peak access statistics like users per unit time, page views per unit time, average session duration, current and target load levels, user abandonment rate, etc.