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BuIldIng the FoundatIon: essBase InFrastruCture
John Booth
CONTENTS
1.1 Introduction 2
1.1.1 Who Should Read is Chapter? 2
1.1.2 What Will Not Be Covered 2
1.1.3 What Will Be Covered 3
1.2 Infrastructure Skill Sets 3
1.2.1 Typical Infrastructure Organization 3
1.3 Foundational Hardware and Soware Tips and Tricks 4
1.3.1 Hardware Tips and Tricks 4
1.3.2 Soware Tips and Tricks 4
1.3.3 Deployment Considerations 4
1.3.4 Number of Environments 5
1.3.5 Which Essbase Release? 7
1.3.6 When an Upgrade Is Not an Upgrade 7
1.3.7 Core Essbase Processes 7
1.4 Essbase Architecture and Sizing 8
1.4.1 A Few essbase.cfg File Settings 8
1.4.2 Sizing 10
1.4.3 Essbase and CPU Cores 12
1.4.4 Web/Java Server CPUs 12
1.4.5 Memory 12
1.4.6 Stora ...