Business Objects Enterprise XI Sizing

Step 1 - Load
Potential Users (e.g. Named Users) - Heavy, Active, Moderate, Light
Concurrent Active Users
Concurrent Viewing Jobs
Simultaneous Requests

Example:
(1)) + (((Concurrent active users X % of Active Users) / 100) * (0.25)) + (((Concurrent active users X % of Moderate Users)/ 100) * (0.12)) + (((Concurrent active users X % of Light Users) / 100) * (0.06)) = Calculated Simultaneous Users (rounded up) - or – (((100 X 15) / 100) * (1))) + (((100 X 45) / 100) * (0.25)) + (((100 X 25) / 100) * (0.12)) + (((100 X 15) / 100) * (0.06)) = 31

Step 2 - Services















Intelligence Tier
• Central Management Server (CMS)
• Crystal Reports Cache Server
• Input/Output File Repository
• Event Server

Processing Tier
• Web Intelligence Report Server
• Web Intelligence Job Server
• Crystal Reports Page Server
• Crystal Reports Job Server
• Report Application Server
• List of Values Job Server

Step 3 - Configuration
Basic One Machine Configuration (Vertical Scaling)
Multiple Machine Configurations Types (Horizontal Scaling)

Step 4 - System Database Tuning
- System Database Backend Performance
- Connection between Enterprise XI and the database system
- Performance Criteria
Meeting the following 5 criteria helps to avoid the most common performance bottlenecks.
• The database system’s cache hit rates are over 90%.
• The optimizer statistics are not older than 24 hours.
• Lock granularity is row locking.