November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
34h 10m
English
In this chapter, you have learned the fundamentals of sizing and capacity planning. You have reviewed some mathematics that you probably hope you’ll never use again. In addition, you have learned how to size a system for CPU, memory, I/O, and network capacity. This chapter has also introduced you to some new tools that are useful for benchmarking and load testing both the I/O subsystem and the network. You will find these tools and concepts important not only for sizing and capacity planning, but for performance tuning as well.
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