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Chapter 4. Sizing guidelines
This chapter is designed to help you understand the issues relating to making sure you have
the right sized ESS and Enterprise Server for your Enterprise Database Server needs.
The following general topics are discussed:
Understanding your requirements
– Capacity and growth
– Throughput and transaction rates
How to size the disk and server
Rules of thumb
Example scenario
The objective of sizing a system should be a balanced system. A balanced system is a
system that has a sensible set of CPU, memory, disks, and network connections. There
should be no bottleneck which would make the other ...