Capacity Planning Best Practices

There exist a number of best practices that should be followed when capacity planning for a WebLogic deployment:

Be conservative with your capacity estimates. The steps detailed in this chapter are able to provide a high-level estimate of the configuration required to meet your deployment goals. Capacity planning for WebLogic is not an exact science. For this reason, it is a best practice to err on the side of caution in terms of estimates. Many successful deployments take server hardware capacity-planning estimates and increase them by 50 percent in order to be absolutely sure that they will have adequate capacity. For deployments where absolute reliability is preferable over cost savings, this is a common practice. ...

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