Sun Solution Center

PeopleSoft Competency
Sizing Result
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Author: Ed Chaban

Document Date: 3/19/2008

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I. Scope
The recommended configuration below covers deployment of :
PeopleSoft Financials & Supply Chain 9 PeopleTools 8.49 or higher
Oracle Database

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Table of contents
I.Scope........................................................................................................................................2
II.Customer and project information............................................................................................4
III.Sizing specification and disclaimers.......................................................................................5
IV.Sizing assumptions.................................................................................................................6
IV.A-Software versions............................................................................................................6
IV.B-Overall user count...........................................................................................................6
IV.C-High Availability...............................................................................................................7
V.Notes........................................................................................................................................7
VI.Recommendation ...................................................................................................................8
VI.A-Production Database Servers (Qty 2 RAC) ...................................................................8
VI.B-Production Web/App Combo Servers (Qty 4).................................................................8
VI.C-Test/Dev Database Server(s) ........................................................................................9
VI.D-Test/Dev Web/App Combo Servers (Qty 2)...................................................................9

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II. Customer and project information

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GEM - Country USA
Industry Telco
Project Name
Sun Contact(s) RJ Blume
Customer Contact(s)
PeopleSoft Contact(s)
Partner Contact(s)

Additional comments :

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III. Sizing specification and disclaimers

The Sun PeopleSoft Competency Center delivers sizing based on latest benchmark and
customers deployment experiences.
Sizing are based on a an average of 60 to 70% usage of CPU and memory.
The expected average response time for transactions is below 3 seconds.
This sizing is based assuming the following restrictions :
Information provided to the PeopleSoft Competency Center are sufficient to do a
certified sizing.
Production environment follows assumptions used for the sizing.
Customizations follow PeopleSoft recommended practices.
Production system installation follows Sun best practices.
In any case, we recommend :
Performing custom scalability tests with the final customized application to get formal
response time and scalability measure.
To validate architecture design with Sun Professional Services.
To involve Sun Professional Service in deployment and tuning of the production
system.

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IV. Sizing assumptions

IV.A- Software versions
PeopleSoft version PeopleSoft 8.9
Database vendor Oracle

IV.B- Overall user count

Module Light Medium Heavy

Projects 550
Financials 250 30 100
ePro 250 750 250
sPro 100 300 100
Other SCM 100

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IV.C- High Availability

Database Tier Yes - Optional
PeopleSoft App Server Yes - Optional
Web Server Yes - Optional
HA Software Sun Cluster or Veritas Cluster or RAC

V. Notes

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VI. Recommendation
VI.A- Production Database Servers (Qty 2 RAC)
CPU Memory Disk (See notes)
Initial 6 SPARC64 (12 cores 32 GB TBD
total)

Grow to 8 or more TBD TBD

VI.B- Production Web/App Combo Servers (Qty 4)

CPU Memory Disk (See notes)
Initial UltraSPARC T1/T2 8 32 GB TBD
Core

Grow to Scale Horizontally TBD TBD

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VI.C- Test/Dev Database Server(s)

CPU Memory Disk (See notes)
Initial 6 SPARC64 (12 cores 32 GB TBD
total)

Grow to 8 or more TBD TBD

VI.D- Test/Dev Web/App Combo Servers (Qty 2)

CPU Memory Disk (See notes)
Initial UltraSPARC T1/T2 8 32 GB TBD
Core

Grow to Scale Horizontally TBD TBD

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