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Planning a SiteMinder deployment with performance in mind is the first step to maintaining high enterprise availability and performance standards. A good approach is to estimate the number of expected authentications and authorizations SiteMinder must handle per application. The following general factors influence SiteMinder performance:

The following graphic illustrates how authentication and authorization rates fluctuate throughout the day, are sustained for a specific period, and peak within that period:

Illustration of authentication and authorizations rates being averaged  to determine a sustained rate.

Note: Authenticating and authorizing users results in a number of reads, and if Password Policies are enabled, writes, to a user store. Determining sustained and peak rates helps you determine the load under which your user stores must operate to service Policy Server requests.

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