Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Always create a design and planning document when deploying Service Manager, even if it is a simple one.

• Take future expansion and relevance of hardware into account when sizing servers for SvcMgr deployment.

• Keep the installation of SvcMgr components on a separate server or set of separate dedicated member servers that do not run any other separate applications.

• Use SQL Server Enterprise Edition when combining components on the same server.

• Use SQL Server Enterprise Edition when scaling up Service Manager.

• Allocate adequate space for the databases depending on the length of time needed to store work items and the number of computers in the organization.

• Size the ...

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