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Sun ONE Application Server 7, Enterprise Edition System Deployment Guide

Contents

About This Guide
Who Should Use This Guide
How This Guide is Organized
Using the Documentation
Documentation Conventions
General Conventions
Conventions Referring to Directories
Product Support

Chapter 1   Overview of Deployment
About Deployment
Throughput
Response Time
Availability
Phases of the Deployment Process
Planning Your Environment
Selecting a Topology
Running Tests

Chapter 2   Planning your Environment
Introducing HADB
Data Redundancy Units
Spare Nodes
Sample HADB Architecture
Establishing Performance Goals
Estimating Throughput
Estimating Load on Application Server Instances
Maximum Number of Concurrent Users
Think Time
Average Response Time
Requests Per Minute
Estimating Load on HADB
Understanding Session Persistence
Number of Requests per Minute Received by the HADB
Session Size Per Request
Comparison of Persistence Scope Options
Designing for Peak Load or Steady State Load
Frequency and Duration of Peak Load
Design Decisions to Make
Number of Applications Server Instances Needed
Number of HADB Nodes Required
HADB Storage Capacity Required
Whether You Want to Design for Peak Load or for Steady State Load
Planning Network Configuration to Meet Your Performance Goals
Estimating Bandwidth Requirements
Peak Load Times
Calculating Bandwidth Required
Peak Load
Subnets
Network Cards
Network Settings for HADB
Planning Availability
Adding Redundancy to the System
Failure Classes
Using Redundancy Units to Improve Availability
Using Spare Nodes to Improve Fault Tolerance
Planning Failover Capacity
Using Multiple Clusters to Improve Availability

Chapter 3   Selecting a Topology
Common Requirements
General Requirements
HADB Nodes and Machines
Load Balancer Configuration
Co-located Topology
Reference Co-located Topology
Configuration Settings for Reference Co-located Topology
Variation to Reference Co-located Topology
Configuration Settings for Variation to the Reference Co-located Topology
Separate Tier Topology
Reference Configuration
Configuration Settings for Reference Separate Tier Topology
Variation to Reference Separate Tier Topology
Configuration Settings for Variation to Reference Separate Tier Topology
Comparison of the Topologies
Determining Which Topology to Use

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