Additional Questions

While the following questions are not applicable to creating your usage profile, they are important to developing your sizing strategy. How you answer these questions might require you to consider additional hardware.

1. How much redundancy do you want in your deployment?

   For example, do you need to consider high availability.

2. What backup and restore strategy do you have in place (such as disaster recovery and site failover)? What are the expected times to accomplish recovery tasks?

   Typically you need to back up the server configuration files, database, and any resource files you have customized.