Hardware Profile Library Properties

A hardware profile library has more properties than a standard EAM.

The General tab contains all the standard model properties (see EAM Properties) in addition to the following properties:

Property

Description

Currency

Specifies the currency to use in cost calculations.

SAN cost per TB

Specifies the cost of a terabyte of SAN storage.

Sybase IQ Configuration Tab

These properties are available on the Sybase IQ Configuration tab:

Property

Description

Reference Profile

Specifies the hardware profile that is used as a baseline against which to measure the cost and perfomance of other profiles.

Load cores per...

Specifies the standard and maximum number of cores required for each column, HG, WD, and other index when loading.

Bandwidth per core (MB/s)

Specifies the standard and maximum disk bandwidth (in MB/s) per core.

Reference Query Baselines

Specifies the supported number of concurrent queries for each query type when the system balance is set to 0% (low cost most important) and 100% (high performance most important).