2.7. Case Study: DB2 with DPF Environment
Now that you are familiar with DPF, let's review some of the concepts discussed using a simple case study.
Your company is expanding, and it recently acquired two other firms. Since the amount of data will be increased by approximately threefold, you are wondering if your current single-partition DB2 database server will be able to handle the load, or if DB2 with DPF will be required. You are not too familiar with DB2 with DPF, so you decide to play around with it using your test machines: two SMP machines running Linux with four processors each. The previous DBA, who has left the company, had installed DB2 UDB ESE with DPF on these machines. Fortunately, he left a diagram with his design, shown in
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