Things to consider while sizing a SAP Server
Points to consider when Sizing
This sizing questionnaire is designed to collect enough information to allow us to configure and characterize an appropriate SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) landscape.
1. Customer Information-This includes customer contact information, in case the sizing engineer needs further input to process the sizing. Here we also ask about the number, version and software of OLTP source systems as well as certain operational issues important to the overall system design.
2. Landscape Configuration
and DW Design Planning-This section covers all information around the planned system and DW landscape as well as the Data Model design.
3. User Activity and Workload-There are three basic components to size for a SAP BW system: number of users/processes, query mix and quantity of data stored in the DW. This section will gather the information necessary to perform this process.
4. Data Quantity-In this section we ask for the amount of data you have planned to store in your DW and the data model you have planned to use.
5. Technical Requirements-Here we gather information regarding certain technical requirements, such as clustering or backup technology, that may influence the sizing of the system.
Before any sizing begins, a conference call between the SAP customer and various SAP technology partners (sizing partners) is very helpful - by determining the answers to the following questions, the sizing engineers greatly improve their chances of architecting a mySAP solution "right" the first time, and thus avoid or minimize subsequent and time-consuming re-sizings.
- Why are you implementing SAP?
(business reasons will impact HA and other considerations)
- Are you interested in a low cost/maximum value solution?
(price sensitivity will drive platforms)
- Is overall performance/response time the driving factor behind the configuration?
(max performing disk subsystem/RAID configuration, more application servers)
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