Patent ID: 7062426

Claim:
In a Thin Client Sizing Tool for configuring one or more Server Farms which optimize a network suitable for an enterprise which supports a given customer profile said sizing tool providing an Application Delivery Solution Configurator which accesses information from a Server Information Database, a Sizing Database, a Configuration Database Template, and a Configuration Session Database, a method for establishing the memory requirements for the Farm configuration developed by said Application Delivery Solution Configurator, comprising the steps of: (a) calculating, via said Application Delivery Solution Configurator, the memory requirements for each User-type utilizing each application available including the steps of: (a1) accessing from said sizing database the memory requirements for each application being utilized; (a2) incrementing the memory requirements by adding the product of the MAX FUNCTION times the number of Users, where the MAX FUNCTION is the larger MX of either the MA (amount of memory allocated for each application by the operating system) or MS (the amount of Server memory needed for each operating system to allocate for each User); (b) utilizing information from said Configuration Session Database to enable said Application Delivery Solution Configurator to determine the number of Servers required for the optimum Server configuration; (c) calculating the memory requirements for each Server using information from said Sizing Database and said Configuration Session Database.