Sizing Your RDS Deployment

Sizing an RDS deployment can be a challenging exercise. Several factors will determine the workload that an RDS farm can support. First, there is a lot of flexibility when deploying in the farm mode, and you can combine various RD server roles to change the workload on a given server. Second, the workload of these RDS servers depends upon the wide variety of applications that may be running on them and the different ways in which users work with these applications. Unlike other tier-1 applications such as database, email, and web servers that usually exhibit a limited type of workload transactions, the workload in an RDS environment can vary drastically. Furthermore, even the same set of applications can be used in ...

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