Self-help Materials

• Technical Briefs
• Test Reports
  • ESRI Software Performance Testing
  • High Availability

Technical Briefs

• Enterprise Storage Options—Explores the differences among storage solutions: direct attached storage (DAS), storage area network (SAN), and network area storage (NAS) [PDF]
• Oracle's Real Application Clusters and Transparent Application Failover with ESRI Products—Explains and discusses Oracle’s Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Transparent Application Failover (TAF) points of concern regarding ESRI products [PDF]
• Web Application Stress Test Methodology—Provides a methodology for performing Web stress testing against ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server Web applications [PDF]
• ArcSDE Geodatabase Replication Overview—Discusses replicating data in an ArcGIS enterprise using an ArcSDE geodatabase and an industry-standard DBMS [PDF]
• ArcSDE High–Availability Overview—Summarizes the concepts, components, and strategies in designing an ArcSDE high-availability system [PDF]
• ArcIMS Configuration Performance Factors—Discusses ArcIMS configuration factors and impact on performance [PDF]
• ArcSDE Tiered Hardware Configurations—Describes how ArcSDE is part of a flexible GIS data management architecture and can be set up in a two- or three-tiered hardware set up with multiple GIS client connection options [PDF]
• Identifying Firewall TCP Server Ports in an Enterprise ArcIMS Configuration—Identifies the firewall Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) server ports used between the various ArcIMS subsystems (Web server, applications server, monitor, and tasker) [PDF]
• Image Storage Architecture—Discusses Image Storage Architecture (ISA) in enterprise GIS environments [PDF]

Test Reports

Test reports document testing and evaluation of ESRI software in different environments with special focus on system design, functionality, and performance. They evaluate third-party software and hardware products and how they integrate with ESRI software. These reports are good references to use during the planning and implementation phases of a GIS.

ESRI Software Performance Testing

• ArcIMS/ArcGIS Server Edition Performance and Scalability with Windows 2003 64-Bit Edition—Demonstrates performance gains for ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server when using a 64-bit Windows operating system [PDF]
• Dual Core ArcIMS Capacity and Scalability Testing—Evaluates the performance and capacity of an ArcIMS server based on dual core Intel CPUs relative to a single core Intel CPU and also includes hyperthreading scalability testing [PDF]
• HP AMD Server Performance Validation Testing—Demonstrates the predictability of performance and scalability of HP AMD servers relative to an established baseline and using Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) benchmarks [PDF]
• TMS Solid State Storage Technology and Performance Evaluation—Presents the technical evaluation, including performance validation with the ArcGIS Server globe server, of a Texas Memory Systems (TMS) solid-state storage array [PDF]
• ArcGIS 9.x MXD Layers Scalability Testing—Examines how performance and scalability are affected by increasing the number of layers in an ArcMap document (MXD) [PDF]
• ArcGIS Desktop Client Memory Testing—Tests the impact of client memory on map display response time when accessing data on a file server and through an ArcSDE application server connection [PDF]

High Availability

• Citrix NetScaler High-Availability Testing with ArcIMS and ArcGIS Server—Documents how ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS 9.1 can be used successfully in conjunction with Citrix NetScaler to create a high-availability, load-balanced Web site [PDF]
• ArcSDE 9.1 SP1 and SQL Server 2005 MSCS Active/Passive Cluster Configuration—Documents a working configuration of ArcSDE 9.1 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition in an active/passive Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) configuration for the purpose of creating a high-availability ArcSDE data server [PDF]
• Stratus Server Technology Evaluation and Performance Validation Testing—Presents the technical evaluation, including application and performance validation, of a Stratus FT4300 server using ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, and Tracking Server [PDF]
• ArcGIS Server 9.x High-Availability Configuration Testing Using Microsoft Network Load Balancing—Describes how ArcGIS Server 9.x can be integrated with Microsoft's Network Load Balancing (NLB) configuration to create a high-availability, load-balanced ArcGIS Server Web application [PDF]
• ArcIMS 9.0 High-Availability Configuration Testing Using Network Load Balancing—Describes how ArcIMS 9 can be successfully used in conjunction with Microsoft's NLB, which is included in the Windows Server 2003 clustering solution, to create a high-availability, load-balanced ArcIMS Web site [PDF]
• ArcSDE 9.0/9.1 and Oracle Failsafe 3.3.3 MSCS Active/Passive Cluster Configuration—Documents a working configuration of ArcSDE 9.0/9.1 and Oracle Failsafe in an active/passive MSCS configuration for the purpose of creating a high-availability ArcSDE data server [PDF]
• ArcSDE 9.x and SQL Server 2000 MSCS Active/Passive Cluster Configuration—Documents a working configuration of ArcSDE 9 and Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition in an active/passive MSCS configuration for the purpose of creating a high-availability ArcSDE data server [PDF]