Chapter 1. Hardware Planning
In this chapter, we will learn about selection and provisioning of hardware necessary to build a highly available PostgreSQL database. We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:
- Planning for redundancy
- Having enough IOPS
- Sizing storage
- Investing in a RAID
- Picking a processor
- Making the most of memory
- Exploring nimble networking
- Managing motherboards
- Selecting a chassis
- Saddling up to a SAN
- Tallying up
- Protecting your eggs