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Capacity Planning for the Directory

Capacity planning is the process of assessing applications' directory access requirements and ensuring that the Oracle Internet Directory has adequate computer resources to service requests at an acceptable rate. This chapter explains what you need to consider when doing capacity planning. It guides you through an example of a directory deployment for an e-mail messaging application in a hypothetical company called Acme Corporation

This chapter contains these topics:

• About Capacity Planning

• Getting to Know Directory Usage Patterns: A Case Study

• I/O Subsystem Requirements

• Memory Requirements

• Network Requirements

• CPU Requirements

• Summary of Capacity Plan for Acme Corporation