Need some guidlines for server sizing

[system]

Hi,
Following is my configuration :
( Two Tomcat servers behind Load balancers, Two BOE/CMS servers in cluster, One DI server & Two Oracle DB repository servers in Veritas Cluster environment)

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Two dual core CPUs with 8 GB RAM on each PROD server.
CPU model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 2218
cpu MHz : 2600.943

Hard drives - Mirrored 146 GB drives.

Memory - 8 GB

I need inputs on the following
@How can we assign services per cpu or per processor
@If the CMS is in cluster shall we consider it as single or double CMS
@Dual core processor means shall we consider as two processors per cpu
@what is the differrence between the cpu support and service support fro users for processing requests

Regards
Badri

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BADRI (BOB member since 2005-08-10)

[system]

Here is some information on the XI R2 Architecture

XI R2 Architecture & Sizing with 4.0 Updates

We have deployed XI R2 in our organization and have the following XI R2 components in our environment . Business Objects Enterprise Premium ( provides the ability to support both classic Business Objects users (Web Intelligence & desktop Intelligence ) and Crystal Reports Users in the same environment. We also support EPM (Performance management ) Services , Dashboard Manager (Dashboards , Analytics , Metrics ) and Performance Manager (goals , strategy maps) in the same XI R2 Environment There …

Each two CPU Tomcat server supports about 95 Concurrent Users and this would be the same for a 4 CPU tomcat as tomcat application is memory bound.

You should always have One CMS per server and two CMS in the Cluster

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EnterpriseArchitect (BOB member since 2006-03-23)

[system]

Hi,

In the sizing recommendation guide provided by Business Objects,
it has been mentioned that,

“1 Dual processor with 2 Web application services” can support 400 simultneous requests.

Please let me know how it is possible to have 2 Web App Services in a Dual Processor system.

Regards,
Sukanya Krishnan

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bodevXI (BOB member since 2006-05-09)

[system]

You can use Apache Load balancer to multiple Tomcat Web Servers.

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vinod_menon (BOB member since 2007-04-09)