Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers

By Brian L. Wong

A reference for planning and configuring Solaris servers for NFS, DBMS, and timesharing environments, this book addresses a range of products from Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, including the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133499529
• ISBN13: 9780133499520
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great!! Great!! Great!! But...

Great book!! Clear, easy and acurated text!! Great Methodology!! Simple and objective!!A must have for anyone who needs manage and design unix data centers.The only problem: This book needs a 2002 update release covering the newest Sun hardware and the most server intensive needs made by web-centric computing.

Still the Alpha reference for Solaris systems

The references to the Solaris OS and SPARC machines are of course out of date. Even so, Wong's methodology, analysis of performance factors, and depth of treatment are outstanding. As an Sun-certified educator, consultant, and field engineer, I use this book all the time. I have read it through six or seven times by now, and I still find (or recover) valuable information packed away in the corners. It's indispensable as a methodology reference for scoping systems, although it really should be read cover to cover at least once. Wong's breadth of coverage is absolutely impressive. When I want to show other techs a strategic way to approach system planning, I hand them a copy of this book, first thing. Read this book if you have anything to do with installing or maintaining Sun systems; then ask Brian Wong to please write the update!

Excellent resource for quanatative server sizing.

This book is a bible for System sizing. It covers real world examples and provides a great reference.It also includes very good case studies. Most of all I think it makes us (System Administrators) think more about quantifying our server configurations!!

The choice for system configurators!

Mr. Wong's book provides not only an in-depth coverage of capacity planning, but for us who have to configure enterprise systems, and excellent and authoritative guide with practical examples to system configurations. It is a wee bit behind with respect to current technology, which can be expected in this industry, but still provides sound fundamental concepts for system planning and configuration. I highly recommend it to DBA's and SysAdmins, moreover to all those responsible for the art of enterprise system configurations.

Great book to figure out how to tweak everything Solaris

It goes into great detail about the smallest parameters for SCSI (and other types of disks), RAID architectures, memory and bus timing and much more. Learn why RAID may not be the best means of getting faster disk access. Figure out when you *shouldn't* upgrade that old server in favor of that shiny new one. Most explanations and suggestions are backed up with plenty of real-world data and graphs. It's goal is to help administrators get the most from what they've got and how to scale and appropriately purchase what they want. A very thorough and technical book, and it's rather current (Ultra Enterprise servers are covered throughout). In addition, it details (much) older systems and their architectures. Highly recommended reading for database, system, and web server admins.