BEA WebLogic Server Capacity Planning Guide

 

Planning for Capacity Requirements

Introduction to Capacity Planning

Capacity Planning Factors to Consider

What Types of Clients Connect to the WebLogic Server Application?

What Types of Traffic Do the Clients Generate?

Does the Platform Have a WebLogic Server Performance Pack Installed?

Do Clients Use SSL to Connect to the WebLogic Server?

How Well-designed is the Application?

Is the Database a Bottleneck?

What Else is Running on the Machine?

Is the Bandwidth Sufficient?

Is the WebLogic Server Tuned?

Is the WebLogic Server Clustered?

How Many Transactions Must Run Concurrently?

Determining Capacity Requirements

Examining Results from a Baseline Application

Characteristics of the Baseline Application

Windows NT (4.0) Baseline

UNIX (HP-UX 11.0) Baseline

Generating Capacity Planning Requirements

Capacity Planning Guide FAQs

What About Mainframes or Other Types of Hardware? How to Determine Capacity Planning Information for Those systems?

What About Heterogeneous Client Types? For Example, Programmatic AND http Clients?

How Do I Get My Application To Run Faster?

What About AIX, Linux, or Other UNIX?

How Do I Determine How Much Memory I Need?

Related Reading A-1

BEA Systems WebLogic Server Documentation

Information from Third-party Software Vendors