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T-shirt Sizing

For a BOXI infrastructure (that is, BusinessObjects Enterprise plus the web application server), SAP T-shirt sizing identifies the following CPU and memory requrements:

Note: SAP provide a reference table that gives benchmark SAP ratings for specific hardware. For example, a HP ProLiant DL380 G7 X5650 (Dual 2.66 GHz Intel® Xeon® X5650, with 12 cores in total) rates as 25,980 SAPs. However, many ratings for smaller servers refer to hardware that is no longer available.

CA Data Protection datasets and reports are generally larger than average. When you apply a T-shirt sizing to your CA Data Protection deployment, we therefore recommend that you double SAP’s suggested CPU requirement and add 25% to SAP’s suggested memory requirement. For example, if you anticipate 50 BusinessObjects users running CA Data Protection reports, allow for 3600 CPU SAPs and 5GB memory.

The SAP T-shirt sizing does not take into account the type and size of reports being run. General CA testing indicates the following CPU and memory requirements for typical reports:

• 50 simultaneous WebIntelligence report requests require a dual CPU with 4GB memory.
• 100 simultaneous WebIntelligence report requests require a quad core CPU with 8GB memory.

However, CA Data Protection reports can make intensive use of resources. As a general guide:

• 75 concurrent WebIntelligence users require a 64-bit Xeon 6 core CPU, 8GB memory, and a minimum 80GB hard disk.