Medium Enterprise Design

The second design point is for a medium enterprise consisting of the following:

• 2,000 users

• 500 servers

For illustration and sizing, the number of incidents, change requests, and concurrent consoles at each location are listed in Table 14.7. Because these are the primary metrics and loading that determine database sizing, it is important to have some sense of the workload.

Table 14.7 Medium Enterprise Workload Counts

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Given the number of managed computers, a dual-server design makes the most sense. This would be a Service Manager server and a data warehouse server. The recommended design for the medium enterprise is ...

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