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Small Enterprise Design

The first design point is for a small enterprise consisting of the following:

• 500 users

• 100 servers

For illustration and sizing, the number of incidents, change requests, and concurrent consoles at each location are listed in Table 14.4. Because these are the primary metrics and loading that determine database sizing, it is important to have some sense of the workload.

Table 14.4 Small Enterprise Workload Counts

Given the relatively small number of managed computers, a single-server design makes the most sense. The recommended design for the small enterprise is as given in Table 14.5.

Table 14.5 Small Enterprise SvcMgr ...