Patent ID: 7047177

Claim:
In a customer-designer relationship process wherein a customer profile is developed which can then be input to an algorithmic method for developing an optimized solution for a Server Farm and associated modules which would be most suitable for the customer, and wherein certain factors are developed which include (i) the customer's sizing requirements which indicate the number of servers which may be required and their availability levels which indicate the percentage of operating “on” time predicted for each server; (ii) the physical site locations of each Server Farm according to its locational address; (iii) the total number of users at each locational site; (iv) the concurrent number of users at each site that are operating at a given period of time; (v) the working types and number of users operating at each site; (vi) the types of application programs that will be used by each type of working user; (vii) specifying the number of concurrent users as to their User-type in relationship to their use of each application type, a method for configuring a Server Farm network comprising the steps of: (a) establishing on a Windows screen, a configuration session between the designer and the customer in order to develop the customer's sizing requirements; (b) generating a display report which will recommend the optimum server configuration and other necessary information to optimize the customer's requirements.