What This Chapter Is About
This chapter focuses on two important topics from a hardware sizing perspective. The first section provides an overview of the methods used to perform an initial business transaction volume estimate, which is used to determine the hardware configuration. Important to this process is what data is collected, who collects it, and how it can be processed.
The second section is about estimating the hardware configuration requirements. The primary focus is on estimating the server's CPU power, including how to interpret the various benchmarks made by hardware vendors. Capacity planning estimates on memory and disk sizing are also discussed. The goal is to find an economical balance between the minimum hardware requirements ...
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