Small Enterprise Design

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

• 30 servers

• Three locations, including a main office and two branch offices

• A shared T1 from the main office to the branch offices

• Approximately 25% bandwidth availability

For illustration and sizing, the numbers and types of servers at each location is listed in Table 6.7. Because the types of servers determine which management packs are loaded and determine database sizing, it is important to have some sense of the monitored servers.

Table 6.7 Small Enterprise Server Counts

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