Chapter 1. Hardware Planning
In this chapter, we will learn about selection and provisioning of hardware necessary to build a highly available PostgreSQL database. We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:
- Planning for redundancy
- Having enough IOPS
- Sizing storage
- Investing in a RAID
- Picking a processor
- Making the most of memory
- Exploring nimble networking
- Managing motherboards
- Selecting a chassis
- Saddling up to a SAN
- Tallying up
- Protecting your eggs
Introduction
What does high availability mean? In the context of what we're trying to build, it means we want our database to start and remain online for as long as possible. A critical component of this is the hardware that hosts the database itself. No matter how perfect a machine and its parts may ...
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